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Allotments in Fleet Street, London, WW1

Quite possibly the innermost allotment in London, a plot between Fleet Street and Fetter Lane cultivated by two sisters, the Misses Kersey, where they grew cabbages, cauliflowers, beetroots, tomatoes and marrows during the First World War. The two women here seen hard at work

Picture No
10795092
Media ID
46882836
Size
3600px x 5525px (2.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Unattributed photograph in How We Lived Then by Mrs Cs Peel, 1929
Date
1914-1918

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