1856 Collection (page 9)

Peace illuminations at the Royal Exchange, London
The peace illuminations at the Royal Exchange, London, celebrating the end of the war in the Crimea. Words are illuminated on the front of the building, reading

Peace illuminations at Waterloo Place, London
The peace illuminations at Waterloo Place, London, in celebration of the end of the Crimean War. Date: 1856

Return of the guards from Crimea, Parliament Street
The return of the Guards from the Crimean War: the welcome in Parliament Street, London, where bouquets of flowers were thrown. Date: 1856

Review of the guards returning from the Crimea, Hyde Park
People fraternising with the guards at the review in Hyde Park, London, after their return from the Crimean War. Date: 1856

Reception of Queen Victoria by review of guards, Hyde Park
The rapturous reception given to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, by the Guards at the review in Hyde Park, London, after the regiments return from the Crimean War

Holborn Schools Band
Boys brass band at Holborn Schools, Mitcham. The boys are posed in uniform with instruments. A large carriage is visible behind

Peace illuminations at the National Gallery
The peace illuminations at the National Gallery, in Trafalgar Square, to celebrate the end of the Crimean War. Date: 1856

Getting Under Way and Manning the Yards
The Grand Naval Review at Spithead : getting under way and manning the yards - a mighty warship. Date: 1856

Proposed Concert Hall, Surrey Gardens, 1856
The designed proposed by Mr. Horace Jones, architect, for the music hall at Surrey Zoological Gardens, 1856. Date: 1850

Liszt conducting at Pest, 1856
Franz Liszt(1811 -1886), Hungarian composer, conducting at Pest in 1856, as viewed from a familys box in the audience. Date: September 1856

Music Hall interior, Royal Surrey Gardens, 1856
Dinner for 2, 000 guards, recently returned from the Crimean War, held at the concert hall at the Royal Surrey Gardens. Date: 1856

Royal Surrey Gardens, 1856
The Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, including the concert hall, in 1856. Date: 1856

Peace Illuminations in Pall Mall at end of Crimean War
Fireworks and illuminations cheered the populace on the cessation of hostilities in the Crimean War. In this engraving the Ordnance Office, Pall Mall

Lion House - Salt Lake City, Utah - USA. Built by Mormon pioneer Brigham Young. Named after the stone Lion monument placed over the entrance. Date: circa 1910s

Silhouette - Family riding on a wagon, led by two horses and containing (as well as themselves) a tray of pot plants, a birdcage, a chair, a table and a bucket. The artist is Karl Frohlich. 1856

Silhouette - Children and Birds (" Small Animal-friends" ) - by Karl Frohlich 1856

Roberts and Coppocks Improvement in Looms for Weaving
Technical drawing of an invention, patented in 1855, by Roberts and Coppock, consisting of an improved arrangement of parts for letting the yarn off the warp beam in a weaving loom

Perrys Improved Printing Machine
Technical drawing showing an invention of Mr T. J Perry of the Lozells, Birmingham and comprises a method of constructing the moveable types used in cylinder printing

New entrance St. Jamess Park, 1856
The way through to St. Jamess Park, opened in 1856. Date: 1856

Museum of Science and Art
The construction of the Museum of Science and Art on the Kensington-Gore estate, which is better known today as both the Science Museum and The Victoria and Albert Museum. 1856

Mary E Webb reading Uncle Toms Cabin
Mrs Mary E Webb (a coloured native of Philadelphia), reading Uncle Toms Cabin in the hall of Stafford House, London, home of the Duchess of Sutherland. Date: 1856

Cabirols Diving Suit
Cabirols diving suit combines effective protection with considerable ease of movement, the two basic requirements for working underwater. Date: 1856

Persia Launched
Steamship launched at the Robert Napier & Sons shipyard at Govan, Glasgow. At the time she is the largest steamship afloat and wins the Blue Riband in 1856. Date: 3 July 1855

Visiting Grandparents
The younger generations arrive to visit grandmama and grandpapa Date: 1856

Samuel Gurney, Banker
SAMUEL GURNEY Banker and philanthropist Date: 1786 - 1856

Military / Fortifications
MARTELLO TOWER Tower at the fair-way of the Thames and Medway. Date: 1856

Colonists Get Land
The French prefect of Algiers distributes land to approved settlers in the village of Rivel, also known as Maraboutine Date: 1856

Mhow-ke-Mullee Viaduct, 3, 000 men employed; Khumnee Hill; mouth of Tunnel no 11; at 4 3/4 miles Date: 1856

Great retaining walls along the flank of Soangiri Hill; at 4 1/4 miles Date: 1856

Retaining wall and viaducts; Soangiri Hill above Oonee; at 4 miles Date: 1856

Village of Oonee; contractors workshops; Mr Clowser, joint manager of contract Date: 1856

Entrance to Tunnel no 9 from Tunnel no 8; Viaduct 100 ft high between them at 3 1/2 miles Date: 1856

Group of visitors to the works Date: 1856

Lanowlee Depot and the summit of incline; at 15 3/4 miles Date: 1856

Khandalla Station; at 13 1 / 4 miles
Khandalla Station; at 13 1/4 miles Date: 1856

Khandalla from the Tank; railway cutting; Delmont and Elphinstone Point; at 13 miles Date: 1856

View of Elphinstone Point from Khandalla Date: 1856

Khandalla Railway and Barracks; Carnac Point, and the Dukes Nose Mountain; at 12 3/4 miles Date: 1856

Khandalla Railway along scarp of ravine; Tunnels nos 25 and Delmont House; at 12 1/2 miles Date: 1856

Viaduct 150 ft high, in a ravine of Soangiri Hill at 3 1/4 miles Date: 1856

Railway along the scarp of the Great Khandalla Ravine; Tunnels nos 24 and 25; at 12 1/4 miles Date: 1856

View of Khandalla Ravine and Elphinstone Point, with Nath-ka-Doonghur Mountain in the centre Date: 1856

Khandalla and the great ravine from the long Tunnel; Pollard heights in the back ground Date: 1856

Khandalla Carnac Point, & Dukes Nose Mountains
Khandalla Carnac Point, and the Dukes Nose Mountains, from Mr Berkleys bungalow Date: 1856

Lower entrance to Tunnel no 25; at 12 miles Date: 1856

The Dukes Nose; railway and Battery Hill; at 11 3/4 miles Date: 1856

The Dukes Nose; Battery Hill cutting; and Reversing Station Viaduct; at 11 1/2 miles Date: 1856

The Reversing Station Viaduct, Ghaut Road

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