Clasper, who measured only 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) tall and weighed only 130 lbs, was a champion sculler on the Tyne and in Scotland, but was he was never successful as a sculler on the Thames. In 1867, when he was 55, he competed in his last sculling race, on the Tyne.  https://heartheboatsing.com/2016/09/24/book-liquid-history-the-thames-through-time/

There is a copy of a letter to Strudwick, dated 1868, from Henry Cole, the then Director of the South Kensington Museum, in which he lists the photographs he wished to purchase from the photographer for the museum’s collection. This includes a wide variety of subjects all over London, but perhaps the most significant body of work by Strudwick is a large group of pictures taken in Lambeth shortly before the building of the Albert Embankment in 1866-9.

A set of 76 prints was acquired by Lambeth Archives in 1910, the same year that Strudwick was admitted as a pauper to the Croydon workhouse. So, even in those days there was precious little money to be made from taking urban landscape photographs!

Mike Seaborne
January 2005
http://www.urbanlandscape.org.uk/essays/earlylondon3.htm

Art and scienceMrs Beeton's

 Book of Household Management is published by her husband Sidney, who successfully maintained the Beeton brand after his wife's early death seven years later. The highly popular book, containing recipes and advice for housekeeping, appealed to the Victorian belief that a woman's role was managing the home.
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company is founded, marking the start of the arts and crafts movement.

InternationalThe American civil war begins after the Confederate army attacks Union forces at Fort Sumter in April. The Confederates, comprised of eleven southern states who seceded from the Union over the right to independence on issues such as abolition, are presided over by Jefferson Davis, formerly senator of Mississippi. Although the Union had early successes, the Confederates' victory at Bull Run sets the Union up for a long, four-year war.

Title General views of London

Description Key to bird's-eye view of London, showing the River Thames, from Lambeth.

Date of execution 9 February 1861

Section London Metropolitan Archives

Collection Main Print Collection

Artist Sulman, T.

Engraver Loudan, Robert

Publisher Illustrated London News, The
For panorama see Record No: 27802.

Medium wood engraving

Support paper

Longest dimension 56cms

Picture type panorama

Catalogue No p7494838

Title College Street

Description College Street: General view showing high tide in College Street, and Belvedere Road

Date of execution1850

Section London Metropolitan Archives

Collection Metropolitan Prints Collection

Publisher Historic Times

Medium wood engraving

Longest dimension15cms

Shortest dimension13cms

Catalogue No SC_PZ_LA_01_200

Accession No Lambeth E 25548

TitleDistillers Arms public house on Albert Embankment

DescriptionFront elevation of the Distillers Arms, Albert Embankment, Lambeth. Public house featuring wrought iron fixtures and a large advertisement for Combe Stout. Surrounding elevations also in view, residential properties to the left fronted by metal railings. Preceding pavement and roadway in view with horse-drawn carriage, indistinct. Area is considerably altered, buildings pictured are no longer extant.ÿ

Date of execution1900

SectionLondon Metropolitan Archives

CollectionLCC Photograph Library

Mediumphotograph

Catalogue NoSC_PHL_01_237_919

Biography
Strudwick, William Born in Edgware Road, Paddington 1834. Md Julia (1833 - 1906). 
STUDIO: Wardrobe Chambers, Queen Victoria Street, City of London 1880 - 1881. 
1861: photographic store keeper living at 2 Bolton Terrace, Lambeth. 1871: draughtsman & outdoor photographer living at 4 Albany Villas, Thurlow Park Road, Tulse Hill, West Norwood. 
1881: drawing artist living as above. 
1891: artist in drawing & sculpture living at 12 Kestrel Avenue, Herne Hill, Lambeth. 
1901: artist & writer living at 44 Kestrel Avenue, Herne Hill, Lambeth. Also architect. Storekeeper at South Kensington Museum 1860, at 1d per hour. Photographed Lambeth riverside area before the building of the Embankment in the 1860s. Photo taken for London series of Society for Preserving Relics of Old London. Wrote doggerel poetry published as broadsheets, in 1890s. Admitted as pauper inmate to Croydon Workhouse May 1910. Died in the Workhouse Infirmary July 18 1910. Bd in Croydon Cemetery. COLLECTIONS: Lambeth Archives - 76 prints acquired 1910, by the Lambeth Board of Guardians, via Alderman Charles Woolley. Catalogue issued 1915 (covering all of Woolley's bequest); Victoria & Albert Museum; Guildhall Library; National Monuments Record; St Paul's Cathedral Collection; Peter Jackson Collection (private); Museum of London. BIBLIOGRAPHY: The art of photographic etching. London, the author, 1860. Gernsheim, Incunabula 846; An essay on the Irish Church question ... London, (1868); Photography in the "Sixties". IN Process Yearbook Vol 2 1896 - 1897 pp 78 - 82, illus. LITERATURE: Philip Norman. Demolitions since 1862. IN London Topographical Record Vol 2 1903 pp 36 - 41, illus; Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth. Catalogue of the photographs, views, pottery, etc comprised in the Charles Woolley Collection. London, (1915) pp 1 - 12; David Webb. William Strudwick. A photographer reclaimed. IN London Topographical News - letter No 53 2001 pp 5 - 7, illus.

Occupations

Title
St Helen, Bishopsgate

Description
Interior view of St Helen, Bishopsgate

Date of execution
c1870

Section
London Metropolitan Archives

Collection
Main Print Collection

Artist
Strudwick, William

Medium
photo-mechanical process

Support
paper

Longest dimension
30cms

Shortest dimension
23cms

Catalogue No
q6010778

London picture map location
Exact

Subjects