July Gallery

Telegraphic message boy

Telegraph boy employed to deliver telegrams, holding his leather satchel with an important sealed message, which is probably sent up by a Manchester or Birmingham manufacturer to one of the London merchants in reply to an important inquire sent down, not half an hour ago! Date: 19th century

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Albert, Duke of York at a glider meeting, Lympne, Kent

Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952) (later King George VI) with Sir Samuel Hoare (1880-1959) (later Viscount Templewood) at a light aircraft meeting at the Lympne Aerodrome, Kent. The aircraft is an ANEC I. Date: 1923

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Engine House at the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works 1865

Visit of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to open the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness. Number of visitors in the engine room of the works, which were built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette as part of an improved drainage and sewage system for London. The building shown is now better known as the Crossness Pumping Station. Date: 1865

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