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Chinese Building and Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens

View of the Old Bell Inn

Plan of the City of London and surrounding area showing fortifications erected during the English Civil War

Lord Mayor of London in 1665

Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season patent chariot Chinese Building and Rotunda in'Patent First Class Costume for the Collision Season', 1876. Travel by train was a risky business in the 1870s and collisions were not uncommon. The two men in this cartoon are well prepared for any eventuality. This was a regular topic in Punch as the journal often highlighted the lack of proper investment in the country's railway network. From Punch, or the London Charivari, August 19, 1876.