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THE START FOR THE DERBY - FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. HERBERT WATKINS, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The Start for the Derby - from a photograph by Mr. Herbert Watkins, 1864. 'It is a singular Turf anomaly that the greatest race in the world should be run over perhaps the worst and most dangerous course we have...The hill stops the pace so much...that the bad ones are not half weeded out by the time they reach [Tattenham] Corner. Hence jockeys too often race their horse's heads off to get well round it in the front rank, for fear of the beaten horses falling back and knocking them out of their stride at the critical moment...However, the Grand Stand folk like to see the race from end to end; and so they have their way, and many a fine animal has its chance jeopardised in consequence...For a long time no one cared to see the start; and a few years ago, we believe, that there was only an audience of three. People are more curious now on the point, since the starting question came so prominently before them, and last week there was a regiment of spectators, fully a thousand strong. As might have been expected, eight false starts proved an immense boon to them. It was after a false start that Mr. Herbert Watkins succeeded in catching one of his instantaneous photographs, in which the grey of Warrior was remarkably conspicuous'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. The Start for the Derby - from a photograph by Mr. Herbert Watkins, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609542337
UNDERGROUND WORKS AT THE JUNCTION OF HAMPSTEAD-ROAD, EUSTON-ROAD, AND TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Underground works at the junction of Hampstead-Road, Euston-Road, and Tottenham-Court-Road, 1864. View showing '...what extensive subterranean works are being constructed in different parts of London, yet which make no show on the surface, and the very existence of which is probably unknown to a very large portion of the inhabitants...daily walking over the site...the lines of a number of different works intersect each other [here]. There is, first, immediately under the surface of the road, a double set of mains and pipes for supplying...water and gas. Beneath these passes, transversely, the iron tube belonging to the Pneumatic Dispatch Company, through which parcels are...conveyed backwards and forwards, and occasionally the mail-bags also, between the General Post Office and this district. Under this tube, is the tunnel of the Metropolitan Railway, through which trains are constantly passing and repassing. The Pneumatic Dispatch Company's tube cuts through the crown of this tunnel. On each side of it run large sewers which form part of the London Main-Drainage works. Beneath all these structures we have shown a longitudinal section of the proposed Hampstead, Midland, North-Western, and Charing-cross Railway - a line which is not yet made'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Underground works at the junction of Hampstead-Road, Euston-Road, and Tottenham-Court-Road, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609541973
SIR ROWLAND HILL, K.C.B., LATE SECRETARY TO THE POST OFFICE, 1864. CREATOR: MASON JACKSON.
Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.B., late Secretary to the Post Office, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by J. and C. Watkins of '...the author of the Penny Postage...Sir Rowland Hill has lately retired from the public service; but the country will not forget how much it owes to him...It was in 1836 that he applied himself to study the question of Post-office reform...The defects of the system which then existed were manifest...In estimating the first of the items of cost - receiving the letter and preparing it for its journey - Mr. Rowland Hill observed that the postage not only varied in proportion to the distance the letter had to travel, but that the clerk had to ascertain whether the letter was composed of one, two, or three sheets of paper. The rate of increase was...exorbitant, and bore no proportion to the small additional cost imposed upon the Post Office...delivering the letter and receiving the postage...exposed the Post Office to frauds and defalcations, and rendered necessary a multifarious and complicated system of accounts. The less money the postmasters handled the better...An agitation in favour of penny postage spread like wildfire...In 1839 the Penny Postage Act was passed, amid the joy and congratulations of the entire kingdom'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.B., late Secretary to the Post Office, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609540397
THE WRECK OF THE BOHEMIAN, MONTREAL OCEAN COMPANY'S STEAM-PACKET, OFF THE COAST OF MAINE, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The wreck of The Bohemian, Montreal Ocean Company's steam-packet, off the coast of Maine, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. Bateman Smith, one of the cabin passengers '...of that vessel upon the rocks near Portland Harbour...where she got aground...The steamer, carrying nineteen cabin passengers and 199 steerage, besides the mails and cargo...was just rounding Cape Elizabeth...when she struck upon a ledge called St. Alden's Rock...the night was foggy...It appears that the master, Captain Borland, had misjudged the distance of the lights visible on Cape Elizabeth. The vessel, having...a large hole in her bottom, and began to fill rapidly...she sunk in four fathoms of water, in an almost upright position...Most of the passengers, however, had already left the ship, the first boat taking eighty of them in one trip and seventy in the next trip all safe to land. The second boat was, unfortunately, swamped, and nineteen or twenty lives were thus lost, all Irish steerage passengers, including five or six women and one or two children...The citizens of Portland...are much commended for their humane efforts to relieve and provide for the destitute passengers and to help them to their destinations'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. The wreck of The Bohemian, Montreal Ocean Company's steam-packet, off the coast of Maine, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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