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Franklin's lab at Birkbeck College (photographed shortly after her death) was on the fifth floor of a bomb-damaged eighteenth-century townhouse in Torrington Square, in the former maid's quarters. Her x-ray equipment was in the basement, in what had been the kitchen. The building has since been torn down.
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Reproduced with permission of John Finch and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.