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HMS Hotspur a Royal Navy ironclad ram pictured at sea in 1870
On this day 21st. January in 1870, the Illustrated London News published our engraving above the caption, "Our Ironclad Fleet: H.M.S. Hotspur."
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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Guildhall accepts the colours of 2nd Royal Fusiliers during the Transvaal War in 1900
The regiment's 2nd regular battalion, whose colours were being deposited at Guildhall in our engraving, took part in the Second Boer War until its conclusion in June 1902 with the Peace of Vereeniging.
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Queen Victoria Street and the Poultry demolitions of 1869
Poultry, here seen being partly demolished, was historically one of the markets of Cheapside, whose name is derived from the 'Old English' for "market-place."
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Launch of the Iron Steam Yacht 'Faid Gihaad' at Orchard Wharf
Less than three months earlier 'The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations,' better known as 'The Great Exhibition,' had closed its doors to the public.
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Pantomime at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane: In the Gallery
The theatre is always a magical place to visit, and it always has been!
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On this day, Nelson relics were stolen from the Painted Hall Greenwich in 1900
At the time, the stolen relics were the talk of the town.
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Clifton Suspension Bridge, an Isambard Kingdom Brunel masterpiece, spanning the Avon Gorge
Opened on 8th December in 1864, the bridge project began 110 years earlier with the death of Bristol wine merchant William Vick in 1754.
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St. Patrick's Bridge, Cork, Ireland is opened in 1861
Visiting London in the 1840's he preached 'total abstinance' outside 'The George' pub, in Commercial Road, Tower Hamlets.
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The loss of the 'La Plata' in the Bay of Biscay
The Western Mail reported on 8 December 1874 that "A French Government steamer ... returned to Brest without meeting any survivors of the ill- fated steamship La Plata."
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Pandora and the British Arctic Expedition
Pandora served off the coast of West Africa and in the Mediterranean, before being decommissioned and sold as a private yacht to British sailor explorer Allen Young.
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Frontispiece's thirtieth anniversary year of trading in London Docklands
Frontispiece had moved to 'the Wharf' from Tobacco Dock, Wapping, where the business was founded in 1989.
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General Election landslide for William Ewart Gladstone in 1868 General Election
The distribution of seats in the new parliament was entirely between the two major parties; no other 'party candidates' or 'independent' candidates were elected.