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The Chinese 'junk' Keying arrives at Gravesend prior to sailing to Blackwall in 1848
In London, the Keying was visited be Queen Victoria and several celebrities including the Duke of Wellington and the novelist Charles Dickens.
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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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Solar Eclipse as seen from the Isle of Dogs in 1858
"I have seen more gloom in a thunder-storm." - Mr John Yates, F.R.G.S.
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Royal Marines 'Drawn from Life' posing before departing for the Crimea
During the War of 1812, escaped American slaves were again formed into a Corp which fought alongside 'regulars' against the United States forces.
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Nostalgia: Terror and the search for Arctic Explorer Sir John Franklin
Sir John Franklin was lost in an 1845 quest to find the Northwest Passage.
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A look back at Troops for the War; British Guards Regiments in the Crimean War
Although "Troops for the War" was published on 4th. March 1854, Britain didn't actually 'declare war' on Russia until the 28th. March
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The fall of the Hackney 'Houses of Amhurst Road' in 1862
... "three of the houses fell," resulting in the deaths of three workmen beneath the rubble ...
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Fierce looking specimen Jamrach's 'Wild Beast Emporium' in Wapping
At Tobacco Dock, in Pennington Street, Wapping, stands a statue of a tiger guarding the entrance.
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Vaccination in the East End of London, 1871
The picture shows immunisation in east London, during the smallpox pandemic of 1870-1871.
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The New Graving Dock Near Blackwall, in 1859
On this day in 1859 'The Illustrated London News' carried our image above the legend, "Hydraulic Lift at the New Graving-Docks, near Blackwall.
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The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, a World's First in Passenger Transportation
At its inception in 1804, the Swansea and Mumbles Railway moved limestone to Swansea but within three years it was authorised to carry fare-paying passengers along its railway lines.
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The Duke of Wellington's State Funeral was held today in 1852
The funeral cortege, led by men of the Rifle Brigade, passed through streets lined with more than a million people on its way to the Duke's final resting place.
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"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Journalist Henry M. Stanley's most famous utterance
Henry Morton Stanley was knighted in 1899.