Sisters of Mersey steinlen as seen from the summit

as seen from the summit of Tower

The view is flanked by two figures

A thin woman seated on a settee screams as a horde of demons haul on both ends of a rope wound three times round her waist

March 1863

View of Hammersmith from Chiswick

Sisters of Mersey steinlen as seen from the summit'Sisters of Mersey', 1886. Sir E Watkin had proposed a scheme for a Channel Tunnel but this had not been accepted. This cartoon illustrates the newly constructed Mersey Tunnel that connected Liverpool and Birkenhead. It was formally opened by the Prince of Wales on 20th January 1886. It had been started in 1869. From Punch, or the London Charivari, January 30, 1886.