This is Kensal Rise nearly one hundred years ago, with Kensal Rise Library in the top-right corner – and a steam train passing close by.
Mark Twain, one of the world’s great writers, opens Kensal Rise Library in 1900
The photograph was taken twenty years after the library had been opened by Mark Twain, generously donated by All Souls College Oxford to an area which has one of the highest child illiteracy rates in the capital.
