The Wall Worker c.1877

The Wall Worker c.1877Mr Cannon, seated on the right, a displayer of cheap advertising boards on walls or fences, known as a 'wall worker', c. 1877. The boards had to be removed each night and replaced again in the morning. Mr Cannon had been a prosperous shoe maker whose business had been ruined by the Crimean War, causing him to fall on hard times.

in the centre

Poster of a women in a land army uniform carrying a hoe

This detail shows the central figures from the Westminster election

Horse manure would be separated out and used to fertilise agricultural land

This café and others

Viewed from the nave

The ground floor contained a large food hall selling a products from hand-made chocolates to wine

the author denigrates the 'tributes' sent to the exhibition as 'glittering toys' and examples of 'wasteful and ridiculous excess'

Exterior view of Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church

Pedestrians and chickens are mown down by velocipedes ridden by top-hatted young men about town

Moonlight view of the Strand waterfront looking N

Kew Bridge