View of the south front of York Watergate, Buckingham Street, Westminster, London mb-code 1239626 including a shoe shine man

including a shoe shine man

showing EH Robinson's opticians and the premises of Cassidy and Wells

with two details on the right

wearing a coat with fur collar and a hat

Westminster Abbey and part of the Palace of Westminster

View of the south front of York Watergate, Buckingham Street, Westminster, London mb-code 1239626 including a shoe shine manView of the south front of York Watergate, Buckingham Street, Westminster, London, 1887. Built in 1626, this watergate gave access to the Thames from York House, a mansion on the Strand. The building of the Thames Embankment in the 1860s left it 150 yards from the river, in Embankment Gardens.