A Bird's Eye View of Smithfield Market 1811 IN9164 Bird's eye view of Surrey

Bird's eye view of Surrey Commercial Docks looking east

Other suffragette prisoners quickly took up the strike

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The Lord and Lady of May can be seen on the left hand side (the 'Lady' may in fact be a man) and also a rough hurdy-gurdy player and other disreputable characters in the throng

London Bridge spans the river and then the City of London itself is on the north bank of the Thames

A Bird's Eye View of Smithfield Market 1811 IN9164 Bird's eye view of SurreyBird's Eye View of Smithfield Market taken from the Bear and Ragged Staff. Coloured aquatint. General view over the cattle and sheep stalls at Smithfield market. 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens has a description of Smithfield as being a very busy, crowded and noisy place: 'Countrymen, butchers, drovers, hawkers, boys, thieves, idlers, and vagabonds of every low grade, were mingled together in a mass; the whistling of drovers, the barking of dogs,