A group of people standing outside a jettied timber-framed house which was once the home of Sir Walter Raleigh. It is thought that the house was on Raleana Road, Blackwall, which was demolished during construction of the Blackwall Tunnel.

Date:: 1873

Location:: Sir Walter Raleigh's House, Raleana Road, Blackwall, Tower Hamlets, Greater London Authority, E14

Reference:: BB74/00803

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Description

This is a copy negative, created in 1974 from the original print (see OP18660). Blackwall was once a significant ocean-going port and so was a natural location in which for Raleigh to base himself in London. In the early seventeenth century Blackwall was the main departure point for the English colonization of North America and the West Indies.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/81 Early Photographic Print Collection: Tower Hamlets; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive