Over the Way Finish:Stretched Saint Erkenwald was Bishop of

Saint Erkenwald was Bishop of London from 675 until his death in 693

In the distance is the steeple of St Vedast

Camille (1830-1903)

A topical cartoon from Punch

Over the Way Finish:Stretched Saint Erkenwald was Bishop of'Over the Way', 1861. At the time the American Civil War began, Britain imported the bulk of its cotton from the United States. President Lincoln's blockade of the Southern ports caused Britain to suffer a 'cotton famine' which caused great distress to the workers in the mill towns of Lancashire. By early 1862, some quarter of a million workers in Lancashire were out of work and fresh sources of cotton, mainly from India, were sought. Here we see