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View of the chime machine at St Giles without Cripplegate

Plate 31 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain

This Bill met with considerable opposition from an increasingly powerful temperance movement

Built in 1909

Onlookers watch from boats on the Thames

Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867), American author, poet and editor mb-width 6063 View of the chime machineNathaniel Parker Willis (1806 1867), American author, poet and editor, 19th century (1908). From The Story of the White House, volume I, by Esther Singleton, published by Hodder and Stoughton (London, 1908).