View of a frost fair on the River Thames looking towards London Bridge, London Duke of Brougham View of a building in

View of a building in Lombard Street

the Treasury

He has married a rich old widow and been ruined a second time

in the rear a woman in a similar skirt is being hoisted on the roof of a coach while through an archway on right a weeping girl is being interrogated under the canopy of her own skirt

View of a frost fair on the River Thames looking towards London Bridge, London Duke of Brougham View of a building inView of a frost fair on the River Thames looking towards London Bridge, London, c1715. Winters in Britain were often particularly cold in the 17th and 18th centuries, a period known as the 'Little Ice Age'. These impromptu fairs, offering a wide variety of amusements, occurred in winters severe enough for the waters of the Thames to freeze over. The first was held in 1607, and the last in 1814, since when higher temperatures have meant that the Thames