The Built Environment, East London, England.

Ornate surviving Victorian gem.

 

Note the stucco flowers on the roof, the window shades and blanked window (window tax) provision.

 

Window tax, the taxation of light, imposed by William III in 1696 in England & Wales until it was repealed 155 years later in 1851.

 

Daylight robbery !!!

 

LR3449

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