Interior of St. Bride's

The nave of St. Bride's looking towards the altar. Owing to its Fleet Street location, the church calls itself 'spiritual home of the media'. The building was designed by Christopher Wren and completed in 1703. Much of it was destroyed by bombing in 1940, though it was later rebuilt.
In these photographs, Reid aimed to record an extended walk through the cities of Westminster and London. He used a wooden whole-plate stand camera and a handcart and stepladder which allowed him to photograph from an elevated standpoint. By the time of his death in 1933, Reid had made over 700 photographs for the project, organised into albums. He wrote two manuscripts in rhyme called ‘The Route Ornate’ to accompany his images.