Jacobs Island Rotherhithe 1887 Frame:black Sidney Crockett and William H

Sidney Crockett and William H

Section 34 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

Black and white photo of people waiting in line indoors

To commemorate the 350th anniversary of the fire

Exclusive to the Museum of London

Jacobs Island Rotherhithe 1887 Frame:black Sidney Crockett and William HIllustration to Dickens' novel: 'the strangest of the many strange places in London'. Signed (with monogram) and dated 1887. This watercolour features Jacob's Island, Rotherhithe. Dickens wrote about this area in Oliver Twist , ' In such a neighbourhood, beyond Dockhead in the Borough of Southwark, stands Jacob's Island, surrounded by a muddy ditch, six or eight feet deep and 15 or 20 wide when the tide is in, once called Mill Pond, but known in the