The Old Bell Holborn 1884 Soft toys Perkins and Company brewery in

Perkins and Company brewery in Park Street

One of 19th-century London's most celebrated balloonists was Charles Green

The districts covered are Kentish Town and Camden Town

Canning Town

The journalists' included a carrier pigeon with a quill pen to symbolise their profession

The Old Bell Holborn 1884 Soft toys Perkins and Company brewery inThe Old Bell, Holborn, 1884. This photograph was commissioned by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London to form part of a permanent visual record of historic buildings threatened with alteration or possible demolition in the 1870s and 80s. The 'Old Bell' was one of the few coaching inns left at the end of the 19th century.