'Figure d'un Elephant' Product:Postcard View of the Ratcliffe area

View of the Ratcliffe area

and finally at the bottom right

View looking west from St Katherine's Way with the Tower of London on the right and boats on the River Thames

Travel by train was a risky business in the 1870s and collisions were not uncommon

The statue of Justice

'Figure d'un Elephant' Product:Postcard View of the Ratcliffe areaFigure of an elephant, viewed from the side. In discussing the elephant the author compares the tusks of elephants with the supposed horns of unicorns. Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdit discours (chez Gabriel Buon, Paris, 1582), f. 23. Ambroise Par (c. 1510 1590) was a French barber surgeon and anatomist who served