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- Waggon of the second half of the Seventeenth Century
(From Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata.') - Coach of the latter half of the Seventeenth Century
(From Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata.') - Coaches in the Reign of Elizabeth
Coaches in the Reign of Elizabeth I (From 'Archcæologia.') - Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria - Costume of Shepherds in the Twelfth Century
- The coronation of her majesty Queen Victoria
The coronation of her majesty Queen Victoria - Sir Francis Drake, in his Forty-third Year
- A Bed in the Reign of Henry III
- Tomb of Edward III. in Westminster Abbey
- The Shooting-Gallery
- Her majesty leaving Buckingham Palace on the morning of the coronation
Her majesty leaving Buckingham Palace on the morning of the coronation - House in Stoke Newington in which Edgar Allan Poe Lived
Stoke Newington is connected with the name of Edgar Allan Poe. It was here that he was at school, where he was brought over by the Allans as a child. The house still stands; it is at the corner of Edward’s Lane, which runs out of Church Street. Let us hope that the eccentricities of this wayward poet were not due to the influences of Nonconformist Newington. - Gallo-Roman Sword and Horn
- Her majesty’s State Carriage
Her majesty’s State Carriage - The procession approaching Westminster Abbey
The procession approaching Westminster Abbey - Her majesty leaving her private apartments in Westminster Abbey
Her majesty leaving her private apartments in Westminster Abbey - The Globe Theatre
The first theatre was built in 1570. Thirty years after there were seven. The Queen had companies of children to play before her. They were the boys of the choirs of St. Paul's, Westminster, Whitehall, and Windsor. The actors called themselves the servants of some great lord. Lord Leicester, Lord Warwick, Lord Pembroke, Lord Howard, the Earl of Essex, and others all had their company of actors—not all at the same time. The principal Houses were those at Southwark, and especially at Bank Side, where there were three, including the famous Globe - Saxon Church at Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts
- Marshall Soult's State Carriage
Marshall Soult's State Carriage - Dress of Ladies of Quality
(From Sandford's 'Coronation Procession of James II.') - A Coach of the Middle of the Seventeenth Century
(From an engraving by John Dunstall.) - Ordinary Attire of Women of the Lower Classes
(From Sandford's 'Coronation Procession of James II.') - Ecclesiastical Costume in the Twelfth Century
- A Countryman and Countrywoman
Ordinary Civil Costume ; temp Charles I (From Speed's map of 'The Kingdom of England,' 1646.) - Toynbee Hall and St. Jude’s Church
- Bear-baiting
(From the Luttrell Psalter.) - Old St. Paul's, from the East
- Gallo-Roman Weapons
The Romans, either alarmed by the progress of Hannibal, or becoming aware of the value of such allies as the Spaniards, now sent larger armies to their assistance, headed by their ablest generals. - Shipping in the Thames, circa 1660
(From Pricke's 'South Prospect of London.') - Paul Pindar's House
- The Embarkation of Henry VIII. from Dover, 1520
(From the original painting at Hampton Court.) - Civil Costume about 1620
(From a contemporary broadside.) - Roman London
- Costume of a Lawyer
(From a broadside, dated 1623.) - Temple Bar, London
(Built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1670; taken down in 1878 and since rebuilt at Waltham Cross.) - Lay Costumes in the Twelfth Century
- Ordinary Dress of Gentlemen in 1675
(From Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata.') - A Gentleman and gentlewoman
Ordinary Civil Costume ; temp Charles I (From Speed's map of 'The Kingdom of England,' 1646.) - Martyrdom of St. Edmund by the Danes
(From a drawing belonging to the Society of Antiquaries.) - A Citizen and his wife
Ordinary Civil Costume ; temp Charles I (From Speed's map of 'The Kingdom of England,' 1646.) - Costers and Cockneys
“I ’ear as you don’t walk hout with ’Arry Smith any more.” “No, ’e wanted me to meet ’im incandescently, and I wouldn’t do such a thing, so I chucked ’im.” - A Sea-Fight
(From the 'Life of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick'; drawn by John Rous about 1485.) - 'Britain's Sure Shield'
- The East London Mission
- South-east Part of London in the Fifteenth Century, showing the Tower and Wall
- Brother Brushes
First R.A. (who hates to be interrupted in his hobby but is doing his best to be polite).—“Done any work to-day?” Second R.A.—“No, confound it. That stupid ass Brown came to the studio and talked all the afternoon,—couldn’t do a stroke of work. What do you do when some idiot comes and interrupts your work?” First R.A.—“Oh, I go on weeding.” - Saxon Horsemen
(Harl. MS. 603.) - Dr. Barnardo’s Home, Stepney Causeway
Those who have read Defoe’s “Colonel Jack” will remember the wonderful picture which he presents of the London street boy. That boy has never ceased to live in and about the streets. Sometimes he sleeps in the single room rented by his father, but the livelong day he spends in the streets; he picks up, literally, his food; he picks it up from the coster’s barrow, from the baker’s counter, from the fishmonger’s stall, when nobody is looking. For such boys as these there are Barnardo’s Homes, where waifs and strays to any number are admitted, brought up, trained to a trade, and then sent out to the colonies. Five thousand children are in these homes. The history is very simple. Dr. Barnardo, a young Irish medical student, came to London with the intention of giving up his own profession and becoming a preacher. He began by preaching in the streets; he picked up a child, wandering, homeless and destitute, and took it home to his lodgings; he found another and another, and took them home too. So it began; the children became too many for his own resources; they still kept dropping in; he took a house for them, and let it be known that he wanted support. The rest was easy. He has always received as much support as he wanted, and he has already trained and sent out to the colonies nearly ten thousand children. - Tower in the Earlier Style. Church at Earl's Barton
- Esher Old Church
The reflections conjured up by an inspection of Esher old church are sad indeed, and the details of it not a little horrible to a sensitive person. There is an early nineteenth-century bone-house or above-ground vault attached to the little building, in which have been stored coffins innumerable. The coffins are gone, but many of the bony relics of poor humanity may be seen in the dusty semi-obscurity of an open archway, lying strewn among rakes and shovels. To these, when the present writer was inspecting the place, entered a fox-terrier, emerging presently with the thigh-bone of some rude forefather of the hamlet in his mouth. “Drop it!” said the churchwarden, fetching the dog a blow with his walking-stick. The dog “dropped it” accordingly, and went off, and the churchwarden kicked the bone away. I made some comment, I know not what, and the churchwarden volunteered the information that the village urchins had been used to play with these poor relics. “They’re nearly all gone now,” said he. “They used to break the windows with ’em.” - Old St. Paul's on Fire
- Alehouse
- Building a Church in the later Style
(From a drawing belonging to the Society of Antiquaries.) - Costers and Cockneys
“Ow I s’y, look at ’er frills. Got ’erself hup like a bloomin’ ’am bone!” - Brother Brushes
“Do you want a Muddle. Sir.” - Costers and Cockneys
Fat Party (after a war of words).—“If you come down our court to-morrer and bring a bit o’ fat with yer, I’ll bloomin’ well eat yer.” - Costers and Cockneys
“What price this for Margit.” - A Gallo-Roman Woman
- Christ's Hospital
- The Tower of London
Of all the prisoners who suffered death at the termination of their captivity in the Tower, there is none whose fate was so cruel as that of Lady Jane Grey. Her story belongs to English history. Recall, when next you visit the Tower, the short and tragic life of this young Queen of a nine days' reign.