Market Court, Kensington High Street, London

An early photograph of Market Court on the south side of Kensington High Street, three years before the site was demolished. The inhabitants pose for the camera. Courts such as this one were frequently over-crowded with cramped and insanitary conditions.

Location

Greater London Kensington

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

Themes

Tags

building house housing poor yard men women child sanitation health Victorian (1837 - 1901)