Part of a wall of the old British Museum, Bloomsbury, London lumber and more than 600 holidaymakers

and more than 600 holidaymakers were drowned

Watercress seller with a basket on his arm

The dispute dragged on with the verdict of the original poll reversed on two more occasions

London for the bridge's opening in 1869

and receiving alms in the shape of a coin from a sweep's boy and offal from a butcher's roundsman

Part of a wall of the old British Museum, Bloomsbury, London lumber and more than 600 holidaymakersPart of a wall of the old British Museum, Bloomsbury, London, 1850. The original home of the British Museum, Montague House, was demolished in the 1840s; the Central Hall of the new building, designed by Robert Smirke, was opened in 1847.