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Passengers disembarking from steamboats tied up in mid-stream at Hungerford Pier and ascending by stairs to footbridge level

'Melopoyn haranguing the prisoners in the Fleet'

Scottish actor James Copeland

One man is vomiting

It has been in the Montagu family since 1913 when acquired from a tenant on the Beaulieu Estate

The Rival Curtii mb-width 4222 Passengers disembarking from steamboats tied'The Rival Curtii', 1858. Above the new cutting in the heart of the countryside, two rival railway companies, dressed as gladiators, battle it out for the licence to run trains or iron horses on the line. From Punch, or the London Charivari, April 17, 1858.