Rosalind Franklin at work in a laboratory 1954

Rosalind Franklin at work in a laboratory 1954Rosalind Franklin at work in a laboratory. Rosalind Franklin's contribution to the understanding of the DNA structure has now been acknowledged, but at the time her work did not receive full recognition and credit for the discovery went to James Watson, Maurice Wilkins and James Crick, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. Franklin moved to labs at Birkbeck College, University of London. She died of cancer in 1958.

From a series of 37 photographs published in the book

A photograph taken by George Reid who photographed the streets and buildings of London and the activity in them in the 1920's and 1930's

The section covers the area between Albert Street in the North West

and printed in shades of blue

City waterfront from Benbow Wharf

seated in a wheelbarrow

narrow houses and church spires

to their own surprise

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my fat goose

Milton Road in the South East and Cuthbert Street in the South West

This Bankside wharf was the site of Southwark Corporation's rubbish depot when George Davison Reid took this photo