Beer Street Size:L: 100 x 80cm Church of St Nicholas

Church of St Nicholas

containing Sheriff Wood

Bermondsey House was built in the mid 16th century by Sir Thomas Pope

including a man and boy herding cattle

View of the residence of Queen Caroline in Portman Street

Beer Street Size:L: 100 x 80cm Church of St Nicholas'Beer Street', 1751. Working people enjoying a tankard of beer outside the Barley Mow public house. The figures include two women with baskets of fish and a butcher holding a joint of meat, whilst above him an artist paints the inn sign. Fourth and final state of the plate. This print was published in support of a campaign directed against gin drinking among London's poor. Consumption of cheap spirits by the poor had soared in the early eighteenth