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Porter at The Albany London, 1940s

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Image Size: 7802x8000 / 36.3MB; www.billbrandt.com; Bill Brandt England London social man work working British class apartment flat residence apartment house block of flats 1940s. The Albany was built 1770-1774 by Sir William Chambers for Viscount Melbourne as Melbourne House. It is a three-storey mansion seven bays (windows) wide with a pair of service wings flanking a front courtyard. In 1791 Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany abandoned Dover House Whitehall (now a government office) and took up residence. In 1802 the duke gave up the house and it was converted into 69 bachelor apartments (known as "sets"). This was achieved not only by subdividing the main block and the two service wings but also by adding two parallel sets of buildings running the length of the garden.
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