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Description: | Cockspur Street is between Pall Mall and Northumberland Avenue. The shop on the left is Cawthorn & Hutt's, the oldest bookshop and lending library in London, established in 1740. Next to it is William Clowes & Sons, a printers and publishers specialising in Hymns Ancient and Modern, and military booksellers.
In the centre are the premises of the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co, with the offices of the Coronation Bureau, theatre ticket sellers, above; and the West End passenger office of Lunds Blue Anchor line. These companies were the airlines of their day, providing transport for people, letters and cargo.
The bookshops have gone, but the street is still occupied by the head offices of major shipping companies. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Cityscape | Temporal: | circa 1906 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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