A costermonger shoves his barrow of vivid oranges past the last crumbling stonework of Bermondsey Abbey — demolished around 1896 — in this luminous watercolour by Arthur Payne, one of the most evocative cards in Hildesheimer's "Vanished London" series. The medieval abbey, founded in 1082 and dissolved under Henry VIII, lingered in fragments at Lamb Alley until the Victorian builders finally erased it; Payne's reconstruction captures the chaotic street market that had colonised the ruins, newspaper placards ("The People," "Daily Chronicle") jostling with fruit stalls in the shadow of centuries-old stone. Posted with a King George V ½d green stamp, addressed to a Mrs. McDonald at 29 James Street, Edinburgh — a quick note from someone who had "arrived quite safe this morning" and spent the whole morning in Nethergate, Kinghorn.