Seeing's Believing Finish:Float frame Front row: Brian Labone

Front row: Brian Labone

The gateway of the Honourable Artillery Company headquarters

The sultan's coach is outside a temporary reception hall erected in Guildhall Yard

Travel by train was a risky business in the 1870s and collisions were not uncommon

Seeing's Believing Finish:Float frame Front row: Brian LaboneSeeing's Believing, 1883. Mr Punch watches approvingly as the President of the Local Government Board goes into the courts and alleys of London's slums to see for himself the poverty in which so many of the capital's citizens lived. A dead cat (often used to illustrate the debris and effluent in streets and rivers) lies in the gutter and a ragged child is standing in the doorway. This follows the publication by the London City Mission of The Bitter