The Gutter Hotel, Aldersgate Street, City of London Size:XL: 90 x 60cm One of the four step

One of the four step buildings designed to provide stairway access between Holborn Viaduct and Farringdon Street below can be seen

with steam trains and a signalman

Winters in Britain were often particularly cold in the 17th and 18th centuries

a lion drinking from a pool of water

' View of a coalman bent double as he removes a heavy sack of coal from his cart

The Gutter Hotel, Aldersgate Street, City of London Size:XL: 90 x 60cm One of the four stepThe Gutter Hotel, Aldersgate Street, City of London, 1866. View of the Gutter Hotel, an outdoor coffee bar in Aldersgate Street, in 1866. The diamond shaped photograph is mounted on a cabinet card giving Christmas greetings.