Ancient Egyptian glass Product:Postcard Lake District - Ullswater 19

Lake District - Ullswater 19 June 1961

View of Waterloo Bridge from Hungerford Bridge with boats on the River Thames

On location filming Dr Who

using a Wimshurst machine (electrostatic generator) and two 10-gallon Leiden jars

He had just introduced a scheme whereby small amounts could be saved in the Post Office Savings Bank by the accumulation of stamps

Ancient Egyptian glass Product:Postcard Lake District - Ullswater 19Nineteen figures of ancient Egyptian glass with a Victorian glass brick at the Tower of London. Plate 2 from the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue, London, 1849). Inscribed: 'PLATE 2. Ancient Glass found in Egyptian Tombs, at Thebes. Glass Brick in foundation stone at the Tower of London.' Artist and lithographer are not noted