Rick Gaehl on Nostr: This once was real, or at least something very like it. The mean alleyways of ...
This once was real, or at least something very like it. The mean alleyways of Sailortown, in London's docklands, sometime around 1840.
Wapping, Shadwell, Ratcliffe - the very names seem to drip with the damp mist rolling off the Thames on a dark night...
It's at the Museum of London - well worth a visit.
This picture is in square format
#MonochromeMonday #Photography #BlackAndWhite #History #Museum #London #Psychogeography
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