Hanbury street then and now

Above left: no 29 Hanbury Street, just across the road from the W+K offices, site of the 'Jack the Ripper' murder of Annie Chapman, as it looked in the late 19th century. Above right: how roughly the same bit of Hanbury Street looked yesterday. (i.e. kind of drab and grimy.) The old terrace was long ago demolished and replaced by the Truman brewery.