Sujet

Ceremony of laying the first stone of the Birkenhead Docks, 1844. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Ceremony of laying the first stone of the Birkenhead Docks, 1844. The foundation stone is laid at Birkenhead on the River Mersey: '...the spectacle at the moment when the stone has been lowered in its place, and Sir P Egerton [palaeontologist and politicianPhilip de Malpas Grey Egerton] is receiving the trowel'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM21A06_334

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NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

47,8Mo (5,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 28,5cm / 4960 x 3370 (300dpi)

Mots clés

river England people male crowd crowds man men ceremony flag flags construction site foundations guy British geography ceremonial peninsula laying wharf docks dock foundation building site location Victorian century banner Britain Union Jack newspapers press B&W Merseyside wirral standard british flag Union flag 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century River Mersey The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News Mersey TGN ILN foundation stone newspaper engraving Birkenhead Unknown Egerton Dock Wirral Peninsula