Part of a wall of the old British Museum, Bloomsbury, London lumber and receiving alms in the

and receiving alms in the shape of a coin from a sweep's boy and offal from a butcher's roundsman

The dispute dragged on with the verdict of the original poll reversed on two more occasions

Watercress seller with a basket on his arm

London for the bridge's opening in 1869

and more than 600 holidaymakers were drowned

Part of a wall of the old British Museum, Bloomsbury, London lumber and receiving alms in thePart of a wall of the old British Museum, Bloomsbury, London, 1850. The original home of the British Museum, Montague House, was demolished in the 1840s; the Central Hall of the new building, designed by Robert Smirke, was opened in 1847.