Images Dated 20th November 2004

Royal Irish Constabulary going by sea to enforce evictions

Members of the Royal Irish Constabulary going in open sailing boats called 'hookers' to enforce evictions on the Islands of the West Coast of Ireland. These forcible evictions were the backdrop to the land and rent wars in the mid to late 19th century

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Wyld's 'Great Globe', Leicester Square, London, 1851

Engraving showing the building built for 'Wyld's Great Globe' in the early 1850's. This building housed a 10, 000 sq. foot painting of planet Earth. During the Crimean War, the positions of the fighting forces of Britain, France, Turkey and Russia were posted onto the painting, as the latest news arrived in London

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Leicester Square, London, 1874

Engraving showing a view of the garden in Leicester Square, London, with the 'Alhambra' (formerly the Royal Panopticon) in the centre background, 1874

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