Charles Chusseau-Flaviens’ Petticoat Lane

Click here to book for my tours . Petticoat Lane Photographer Charles Chusseau-Flaviens came to London from Paris and took these pictures, reproduced courtesy of George Eastman House, before the First World War – mostly likely in 1911. This date is suggested by his photograph of the proclamation of the coronation of George V which took place in that year. Very little is known of Chusseau-Flaviens except he founded one of the world’s first picture agencies, located at 46 Rue Bayen, and he operated through the last decade of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth century. Although their origin is an enigma, Chusseau-Flaviens’ photographs of London and especially of Petticoat Lane constitute a rare and precious vision of a lost world. Petticoat Lane Sandys Row with Frying Pan Alley to the right Proclamation of the coronation of George V, 1911 Crossing sweeper in the West End Policeman on the beat in Oxford Circus, Regent St Beating the bounds for the Tower of London, Trinity Sq…