Stamped on the back with British Musem number: 'British Museum 1903 7 16 23' Typed page attached to the back reads: ‘The Dog’s Head in the Pot’ Located at the corner of Charlotte St and Blackfirars Road, Taken in January 1902. Lens used Coorz series 2. No. 2 a dark day-partial sunlight. Aperture 8.f. I had to climb out of a second story window after removing many heavy iron articles, crawled out upon a narrow ledge among pots and cans – which were chained outside as signs, loosened some of the chains that I might remove a huge tin and thus find standing room. ‘The Dog’s Head in the Pot’ is the sign of a wholesale ironmongers establishment dating from the first year of the reign of Henry VIII. 1509, and indicates a slovenly housewife who turned over the pots for the dogs to lick out and thus save washing them. The sign is mentioned in a tract from the press of Wynkyn de Words called ‘Cocke Lorrell’s Bote’ published in the early days of Henry VIII. Accession. The writer mentions: ‘Annys Angry with the croked buttocke. That dwelled at the sygne of ye dogges head in ye pot. By her craft a breche maker.’ It is mentioned later (1563) in the will of Thomas Johnson, who left thirteen pounds and four shillings for the repair of the highways between Barkway and Dog’s Head in the Pot.