10 Downing Street, late nineteenth century
A photograph of the facade and entrance of 10 Downing Street, taken between the 1870s and about 1900 and credited to York and Son.
ImageSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 8 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Source, date, photographer and rights.
- Wikimedia Commons: No. 10 Downing Street circa 1900
Description '10 Downing Street, 1870s to 1900'; source and author Historic England (CC97/00936); metadata credits York and Son; public domain marks; 396 by 562 pixels.
What this check doesn’t establish
- Commons lists the author as Historic England while the file metadata credits York and Son as photographer; the record follows the metadata, as the essay does.
- The Historic England Archive record was not opened.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
- Creator
- York and Son
- Created
- c. 1900
- Medium
- photograph
- Held by
- historic-england
- Rights
- public domainNumber 10, photographed by York & Son, 1870 to 1900. Historic England, via Wikimedia Commons; public domain.
- Reuse notes
- Commons marks the file public domain as published before 1931 and with the Public Domain Mark. Its embedded metadata names Historic England as copyright holder; the archive's own terms were not checked.
- Image source
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Used after the essay's account of how the Downing Street houses were built. The caption notes that the house had been much altered by the time of the photograph.
In the essays
- Somewhere Worth Living
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Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/images/downing-street-c1900.md
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