Just A'goin' to Begin! singing reviewing volunteers on the Artillery

reviewing volunteers on the Artillery Ground

The Royal Hospital with formal gardens and walkways leading down to the River Thames where boats pass up and down

The image has been laterally inverted for use with a vue d' optique viewing box

the white trousers of a fashionably dressed gentleman are blackened by the sweep's soot bag

'Going it by steam'

Just A'goin' to Begin! singing reviewing volunteers on the Artillery'Just A'goin' to Begin!', 1887. WH Smith as a fairground showman, invites the public to his show; the principal parliamentary figures are there, with Charles Parnell dressed as a bandit and Benjamin Disraeli taking the money; behind the platform panels show The Insatiable Irish Growley Wowly, Randolph the Man Sphinx and the Bulgarian Boojum.