Blackfriars Bridge and Bankside 20th century Frame:gold Porters and dockers wheeling sack

Porters and dockers wheeling sack barrows in from the quayside halted briefly for John H Avery to take this photo

Albumen print taken for the London Stereoscopic Society

The rebuilt Regent Street was opened in 1927

some on specially erected stands

Dandy Pickpockets

Blackfriars Bridge and Bankside 20th century Frame:gold Porters and dockers wheeling sackBlackfriars Bridge and Bankside. George Davison Reid photographed this riverside scene that includes Blackfriars Bridge and the old Bankside Power Station. A power station built by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott replaced this one in 1941. At the end of the 20th century, the disused site became home to the Tate Modern art gallery.