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Newcastle-upon-Tyne great sculling boat-race of 1867
"The stakes were £400 on each side, and the winner ... was to be hailed champion of English scullers."
Reginald Frontispiece Ltd
On leaving school in 1960, I worked in Fleet Street, in press photography. My interest in the printed image expanded to include vintage and antique prints. What was a collection became a business!
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Baden Powell and the relief of Mafeking
Mafeking also appeared as a street name throughout the kingdom.
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Chelsea Embankment opened by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh
... it would have to embank the River Thames in front of some of the most expensive housing in the metropolis.
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The Australian Gold rush of 1851
Employees of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line found gold while digging holes for telegraph poles in the Northern Territory
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The Royal Academy of Arts in Burlington Gardens
Purchased by the Royal Academy of Arts in 2001
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Metropolitan Railway works at Snow Hill looking towards the River Thames
" ... obliterating in its course all trace of the boneboilers, tripedressers, knackers' yards and other unsavoury businesses which onced flourished in the area."
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'The Lady with the Lamp' was born on this day in 1820
On arrival at Scutari she found wounded soldiers dying from infections caused by lack of hygiene, a lack of medicines, and being cared for by inadequate numbers of medical personnel
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Goldsmiths' Hall, Foster Lane, in the City of London
Goldsmiths' Hall has given its name to 'hallmarking' whereby items manufactured with precious metals are inspected and marked as to their quality
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The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square
The first 'National Gallery' was 100 Pall Mall, the home of the late banker John Julius Angerstein whose collection of paintings was sold to 'the nation'
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The Norman cathedral of Lincoln was consecrated today in 1092
Originally including a spire, it was the tallest building in the world for 238 years (from 1311 to 1548) until the collapse of the spire in 1548
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The reservoir under Putney Heath
Members of Parliament abandoned the Palace of Westminster as hot weather exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent that sloshed about in London's river
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Lincoln Horse Fair
Held in the High Street, a road that follows the alignment of the Roman ‘Ermine Street’, it was one of largest 'horse fairs' in England