The side of Hotel de l’Europe that flanks High Street is seen in this photograph. Established in 1857, the hotel was located on the same site as both Gaston Dutronquoy’s London Hotel and the Hotel de l’Esperance. The hotel consisted of a number of buildings between High Street and Coleman Street, with separate bachelor and family quarters. Interestingly, Fort Canning Hill, which should stand at the end of the High Street, is missing from this G.R. Lambert & Co. photograph. Possibly this effect is due to the photographer taking the artistic licence to etch out the hill on the negative in order to give the picture a more ephemeral quality, causing High Street to disappear into the mist in the distance.
