A Bird's Eye View of Smithfield Market 1811 Size:large that issued from every public-house

that issued from every public-house

Londoners relax on Tower Beach

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There are many placards around the room encouraging people to vote for Annie Lisle or Lydia Malverns

This was the first of the two general elections of 1910

A Bird's Eye View of Smithfield Market 1811 Size:large that issued from every public-houseBird's Eye View of Smithfield Market taken from the Bear and Ragged Staff. Coloured aquatint. General view over the cattle and sheep stalls at Smithfield market. 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens has a description of Smithfield as being a very busy, crowded and noisy place: 'Countrymen, butchers, drovers, hawkers, boys, thieves, idlers, and vagabonds of every low grade, were mingled together in a mass; the whistling of drovers, the barking of dogs,