Workers on the Silent Highway c. 1878 Size:small Whitehall looking North from Parliament

Whitehall looking North from Parliament Square and with statue of Palmerston in the foreground

Porters and dockers wheeling sack barrows in from the quayside halted briefly for John H Avery to take this photo

Lining: matte nylon

In June 1909 she started a hunger strike to protest being refused political prisoner status

horns and spices

Workers on the Silent Highway c. 1878 Size:small Whitehall looking North from ParliamentTwo men aboard a Thames sailing barge in mid river. The image is taken from a series of 37 photographs published in the book, 'Street Life in London' (1877), with text written by John Thomson and the journalist Adolphe Smith. After taking photographs in the Far East, Thomson opened a portrait studio in London in 1875. Two years later he collaborated with the journalist, Adolphe Smith, to produce 'Street Life in London'. The book was conceived as a