English: The Discussion Hall of the Society of Cogers at 10 Shoe Lane in the City of London, the home of the society from about 1850 to 1871. This image is based on an 1870 illustration [1], but the costume of the participants has been aged (anachronistically) to make the scene appear earlier.
Date
1873 (1887 copy)
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British Library HMNTS 010349.l.1.
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Image extracted from page 144 of volume 1 of Old and New London, Illustrated, by Walter Thornbury. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.
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