- The Tube
The Tube - The Savoy
The Savoy - The Regent Canal at Maida Hill
The Regent Canal at Maida Hill - The Pub
The Pub - The Heart of the City
The Heart of the City - The Good Intent - Chelsea
The Good Intent - Chelsea - The first Railway Journey in England
It was called the 'Locomotion.' George Stephenson stood ready to drive it as soon as the trucks, which a stationary engine was lowering down the slope by means of a wire rope, had been attached to it. In the first of these trucks came the Directors of the Railway Company and their friends, followed by twenty-one trucks (all open to the sky, like ordinary goods-trucks), loaded with various passengers, and finally six more waggons of coal. Such was the first train. A man on horseback, carrying a flag, having taken up his position in front of the 'Locomotion' to head the procession, the starting word was given, and with a hiss of steam, half drowned in the shouting of the crowd, the first railway journey ever made in England was begun. - The Chelsea Arts Ball
The Chelsea Arts Ball - The Cafe Royal
- Soho Market
Soho Market - Shopping
Shopping - Shepherd's Market
Shepherd's Market - Private View - the A.A.A
Private View - the A.A.A - Hyde Park
Hyde Park - Flower Girl
Flower Girl - Cumberland Hay-market
Cumberland Hay-market - Crossbow and Arrows used for Sport
Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts. These were made of various sorts of wood; about a dozen trees were used for the purpose, but ash-wood was thought to be the best. Generally the arrows had a tip of iron, shaped like a pyramid, pointed, though for shooting at birds the top was sometimes blunt, so that a bird might be struck down without being badly wounded. One old writer says that a great difference between the long-bow and the crossbow was, that success did not depend upon who pulled the lock—a child might do this as well as a man—but with the long-bow strength was everything. In fact, during the Tudor times, the kings specially encouraged the archers to practise shooting with the long-bow, and people were even forbidden to keep crossbows. The crossbow, however, when it had reached perfection, carried much further than the ordinary long-bow. - Beasts at the zoo
Beasts at the zoo - An absent desert - the Cromwell Road
An absent desert - the Cromwell Road - A Contest with the Longbow
A Contest with the Longbow