Cadets of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Kent mb-artist Charles_Burton The woman on the right

The woman on the right is wearing a much plainer dress but it still has the full hooped skirt and tight bodice

Further off is the railway station and pier with the masts of other ships showing behind

With figures by the Royal Greenwich Observatory on the left

looking south east from the Middlesex bank with Westminster Bridge in the foreground

servants and prisoners

Cadets of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Kent mb-artist Charles_Burton The woman on the rightCadets of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Kent, 1851. Scene showing cadets preparing to leave the cadet barracks in the Warren, to pass the summer vacation with their friends. The Royal Military Academy at Woolwich was established in 1741 for the training of officers of the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery. It closed in 1939.