Authors: Gillian Tindall

The House by the Thames (34 page)

The View from Bankside
, said to be c.1820 but possibly rather earlier. See the Doggetts race crew of watermen with two barges of spectators looming over them. The crew are all in red, and the man working on the quay wears a red cap.

Testimony of Edwards Sells's first venture into the coal trade, 1755. The âP' for Perronet seems already to have appeared in the family name.

A nineteenth-century Thames Coal-boat, as depicted by Mayhew.

St Saviour's Church (earlier St Mary Overy's, today Southwark Cathedral) still had old wooden houses crowding round it in 1827.

St Saviour's National School, built on part of the Cross Bones graveyard, 1792.

The earliest gas holders on Bankside, 1826, with the actual house in which Sir Christopher Wren is believed to have rented office-space standing alongside. This house disappeared soon after the beginning of the twentieth century.

The testimonial presented to Edward Perronet Sells I in 1852, on his retirement as Treasurer of St Saviour's National Schools.

Edward Perronet Sells II, 1815â1896.

Edward Perronet Sells III, 1845â1915.

A view of barges on the Thames from Bankside, 1901 â busy days, as described in
Living London
.

Bankside 1927
, still at the height of its activity. By Grace Golden,

1911: the quay in front of number 49 Bankside, with power station chimney behind. The original has âSite of the proposed St Paul's bridge' scrawled in pencil on the back.

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