Blind Hookey mb-artist Claes_Jansz_Visscher Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green

View of the bridge and pagoda from the canal

Interior view of Middle Temple Hall from the high table with figures

Meux's Brewery

Land girls on their way home from the field in military area East Anglia The crops have to be harvested within fourteen days circa 1942

Blind Hookey mb-artist Claes_Jansz_Visscher Bethnal GreenBlind Hookey, 1878. Russia, Tukey and Germany are amongst those seated at the card table. John Bull, the representative of the British people, refuses to join the game. This relates to the recent Treaty of San Stefano which laid down the terms for peace between Russia and Turkey. Lord Salisbury had despatched a circular to the Powers objecting to a number of the terms of the Treaty. There was a growing distance between Russia and Britain at this time