City of London, c1560 Product:Postcard A waterman

A waterman

showing the City of London

and barrels and sacks of hops being loaded on and off carts

a man who has just been conscripted into the army sits unhappily in a chair next to a soldier with a glass and a pipe in each hand

In the background bailiffs enter

City of London, c1560 Product:Postcard A watermanCity of London, c1560, (c1750). Upper section shows the City of London and the River Thames as they were in 1560. Middle section shows buildings in Fleet Street, Baynards Castle, old St Paul's Cathedral, Cheapside and The Royal Exchange. Lower section shows a panorama of the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, from Whitehall in the west, past St Paul's and London Bridge, to the Tower of London in the east.