Leonard Bentley
Tudor Street, EC4.
This is an A & G Taylor’s Reality series of Pictorial Postcards Postcard; the company held the Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria and were one of the oldest UK postcard manufacturers of the time. The postcard dates to 1905 and Mr. Charles McCallon Alexander poses for a photograph and about to take a Hansom Cab outside the offices of “The Christian Herald” newspaper at 6, Tudor Street, EC4 in the City of London. Mr. Alexander was an American Gospel singer, Composer and Evangelist in the Moody and Sankey tradition. He was in London as part of a world tour together with his partner, Dr. Reuben Archer Torrey and held meetings and services at the Albert Hall. In 1905 the newspaper ran a series of articles about the Alexander/Torrey mission and this is probably why he was snapped outside their offices. “The Christian Herald” was a weekly newspaper, originally founded in 1874 to report on and support the Moody and Sankey Evangelical mission to the UK. The newspaper went out of business in 2006. In 1904, Charles Alexander married Helen Cadbury, one of the chocolate Cadburys, he continued with his world tours until 1918 when he retired to Birmingham where he died in 1920. There is a fine figure of a City of London Police Constable on the right.
Tudor Street, EC4.
This is an A & G Taylor’s Reality series of Pictorial Postcards Postcard; the company held the Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria and were one of the oldest UK postcard manufacturers of the time. The postcard dates to 1905 and Mr. Charles McCallon Alexander poses for a photograph and about to take a Hansom Cab outside the offices of “The Christian Herald” newspaper at 6, Tudor Street, EC4 in the City of London. Mr. Alexander was an American Gospel singer, Composer and Evangelist in the Moody and Sankey tradition. He was in London as part of a world tour together with his partner, Dr. Reuben Archer Torrey and held meetings and services at the Albert Hall. In 1905 the newspaper ran a series of articles about the Alexander/Torrey mission and this is probably why he was snapped outside their offices. “The Christian Herald” was a weekly newspaper, originally founded in 1874 to report on and support the Moody and Sankey Evangelical mission to the UK. The newspaper went out of business in 2006. In 1904, Charles Alexander married Helen Cadbury, one of the chocolate Cadburys, he continued with his world tours until 1918 when he retired to Birmingham where he died in 1920. There is a fine figure of a City of London Police Constable on the right.