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5/6 Looking eastwards up the Thames towards the Pool of #London and the docks
Good evening from #London, March 24th 1787! And now its time for 'Who Wants To Be A Milliner' which comes to you direct from the interior of a shop in Windsor, where the King and Queen will be seen buying some tape!!
John Bull 'overwhelmed with grief' but actually wickedly sniggering behind his handkerchief at the news that well-known lecherous git* the Duke of York has been forced to resign as head of the army, #London March 24th 1809
*same git, different era
Tally Ho!
Tarquin and Jemima go to great lengths to include all pets in their once-a-day excursion outdoors as a family unit in #London on March 24th 1819
A beautiful image of post-Waterloo #Paris from March 22nd 1817 featuring an elegant young man being greeted by two masked female revellers at the bottom of two slides of a helter-skelter
Joseph arrives home on Friday night, drunken and drenched by the rain, and is shocked to discover his wife was been replaced by a gargoyle, #London February 22nd 1828
St Bartholomew's Hospital for Lepers, Kingsland near #Hackney, just north of London (1841)
Because Twitter can't get enough of the Frost Fair on the river Thames near #London Bridge, in Febrauary 1814
Scarcely a day goes by when the Duke of York doesn't curse 'Bloody news, bloody news!' Here he is putting the Prime Minister William Pitt to the sword as Charles James Fox looks on encouragingly, #London February 1st 1801
#WellingtonWednesday - By Jove! He was a great general but a godawful shot, the Duke of Wellington blasts the nose clean off one of his friends when out on a hunting expedition in Ipswich on February 5th 1823