Along Side Gallery

Return of the guards from the Crimea, street sketch

Return of the Grenadier guards from the Crimean War, a street sketch in London with the guards being greeted enthusiastically by civilians, especially by children running alongside the marching soldiers. Date: 1856

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Russia - River Shilka

Russia - River Shilka. Flows north east from the mountains to the east of Lake Baikal thus providing river traffic link to Khabarovsk and onwards to the Pacific Ocean at Nikolaevsk. Before the rivers freeze in winter the Shilka boats are taken to their winter harbour alongside the river as depicted here

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Irish Unionist Meeting in London, 1886

Engraving showing the Great Unionist Meeting at Her Majesty's Opera House, Haymarket, London, April 1886. A patriotic audience (bottom) acclaims Earl Cowper (centre, standing). Alongside Cowper, seated on the stage, Lord Salisbury, Lord Hartington, Lord Cranbrook, W.H. Smith, Mr. Goschen and David Plunket

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans