Sounding Alley, WC2H
Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act.

They depicted grim scenes of “gin abuse” from St Giles - near present day Holborn in London.

Credit: William Hogarth
Sounding Alley is a road in the E3 postcode area



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