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Lord Mayor's Day: procession waiting outside the new Law Courts - Indian and Colonial Trophies, 1883 Creator: Unknown.

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Lord Mayor's Day: procession waiting outside the new Law Courts - Indian and Colonial Trophies, 1883. 'The procession by which his Lordship (the new Lord Mayor of London, Alderman R. N. Fowler, M.P.) was escorted this year, for the first time, to the New Law Courts in the Strand...seemed to amuse the spectators as much as ever...The procession...included Grace Darling's boat, a lifeboat with its crew, and a rocket apparatus, for saving lives from shipwreck; a trophy of the Fisheries, composed of nets, spars and oars, ropes, buoys, baskets, and other fishing-gear...and several trophies of India and the Colonies, which were original, if not quite appropriate in design. That of "India" consisted of natives standing among palm-trees, with a stuffed tiger above, followed by two elephants; that of "Canada," a backwoodsman, amidst pine-logs and piles of corn-sacks with beavers and bears; that of "Australia," two...station-hands, with fleeces of sheep and bags of wool; a kangaroo and an emu, and a species of pelican...they were succeeded by one which conveyed what was supposed to be meant as a representation of the supply of frozen fresh mutton from New Zealand. This was simply a row of twenty or thirty sheeps' carcases...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A50_348

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