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A Fish Auction in Columbia MarketIn 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens
Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos of GreeceVenizelos, seen at his desk, brought Greece into the war on the side of the Allies though King Constantine, whose wife was German, would have preferred to have remained neutral. WW1 Date: 1914
William BuckleyWILLIAM BUCKLEY, sent to Australia as a convict, who preferred to live with the aboriginals, becoming known as The Wild White Man
Lady Almeria CarpenterLady ALMERIA CARPENTER Daughter of George, earl of Tyrconnell : for all her beauty she died unmarried, but perhaps she preferred it that way. Date: ? - 1809
Polly Preferred by Guy BoltonPromotional postcard for Polly Preferred by Guy Bolton (Little Theatre, New York, 13th January 1923). First produced in England at the Royalty Theatre, 5th April 1924
Anna SchonemannANNA ELISABETH LILI SCHONEMANN one of many females beloved by Goethe, but she preferred to marry the banker von Durckheim Date: 1799 - 1868
Domenica MorghenDOMENICA VOLPATO MORGHEN Daughter of the Italian engraver Giovanni Volpato, betrothed to Antonio Canova but she preferred - and wed - Raffaele Morghen. Date: CIRCA 1780
Theodose Comte MoncelTHEODOSE ACHILLE LOUIS, comte du MONCEL French aristocrat who preferred science to farming and did important work in electricity and the telegraph. Date: 1821 - 1884
Buddha - Pegu - Strong Siamese influences of Pegu Buddha, being the starting point for endless raids against Siam. The armies, after meditation at the Shwemedaw
Sully Prudhomme PhotoRENE-FRANCOIS-ARMAND SULLY- PRUDHOMME French engineer at the Creusot works who preferred poetry, photographed in 1905 when he was old and inform. Date: 1839 - 1907
Saint PetronillaSAINT PETRONILLA Roman martyr, sometimes supposed to be the daughter of St Peter : she was martyred when she preferred virginity to an aristocratic marriage
On Biarritz BeachA family stroll on the beach. Everyone, except papa and little Marie-Cecile, are wearing stockings by MONDIA, preferred by all smart and practical women
