Seeing's Believing Finish:Float frame Roy Brown and Colin Meldrum

Roy Brown and Colin Meldrum

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

King William III entering London

Front row: Brian Labone

home ground of Everton Football club

Seeing's Believing Finish:Float frame Roy Brown and Colin MeldrumSeeing's Believing, 1883. Mr Punch watches approvingly as the President of the Local Government Board goes into the courts and alleys of London's slums to see for himself the poverty in which so many of the capital's citizens lived. A dead cat (often used to illustrate the debris and effluent in streets and rivers) lies in the gutter and a ragged child is standing in the doorway. This follows the publication by the London City Mission of The Bitter