December Gallery

Building Cannon Street Station, London 1866

Boatmen on the Thames can see that work on the Cannon Street Station terminus of the South Eastern Railway is nearly completed. Date: 1866

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Scene in the environs of Calcutta 1857

Suburbs of Calcutta, where a native merchant returning from the city transported in a horse-drawn carriage passes-through at high speed. Meanwhile some relaxed Hindoo labourers sitting on the floor, under a shaded banyan tree, smoking a sort of hookah, relaxing and talking. Date: 1857

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Discovery ship HMS Investigator used as police-station

Captain Cooks discovery ship, the HMS Investigator, (1811), moored at Somerset House, London on the River Thames. Converted into a police-station in March 1837, on 19 April 1842, she sprang a leak and sank, the seven police officers on board were rescued, eventually in October 1857 she was scraped

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