The Great Melbourne Telescope mb-artist W_Wallis West Smithfield

West Smithfield

It was designed for correcting luxated (dislocated) shoulders/ arms

Bartholomew Close

the Bill had been placed to the back of government business and now had no chance of being fully debated prior to the end of the 1884 Session of Parliament

Warriors rest in a woodland clearing

The Great Melbourne Telescope mb-artist W_Wallis West SmithfieldThe 48 inch reflecting telescope, designed by Thomas Grubb, seen erected at Grubb's works at Rathmines in Dublin, Ireland. A workman takes up the observer's position, sitting in a temporary chair observer. The telescope was tested at the Grubb works before being sent to the Melbourne Observatory, Australia, to become operational in 1869. Inscribed verso in pencil: '? Melbourne telescope' Original: albumen print. 1867