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1. London from Greenwich Park.
*London from Greenwich Park. A view from the top of the hill by the Observatory, with a weekend or holiday crowd including a Greenwich Pensioner with a wooden leg, another hiring...
2. London, from Blackfriars Bridge.
*London, from Blackfriars Bridge. Blackfriars Bridge, which crosses the Thames at Southwark, was the first to be designed by Robert Mylne, and was built in 1760-69. It was the third...
3. Naval School, Greenwich & Block Model Ship.
*Naval School, Greenwich & Block Model Ship. This appears to be a view of the first 'Fame', the drill ship constructed in 1843 for the 'sea exercises' of boys of the Greenwich Hospital School. ...
4. King George (Greenwich Pensioner).
*King George (Greenwich Pensioner). A depiction of 'King George' one of the Greenwich Pensioners. Greenwich Hospital was built for seamen in 1695. Seamen contributed sixpence a month...
5. Identifying the clothes of the dead.
*Identifying the clothes of the dead. After the 'Princess Alice' disaster, many of the bodies could not be identified. Clothing from the bodies was brought to Woolwich Dockyard, where...
6. Greenwich Park, with the Royal Observatory, one Easter Monday.
*Greenwich Park, with the Royal Observatory, one Easter Monday. This is a well-known image of Greenwich at the time of its famous Easter Fair. This filled the streets of the town until it was abolished in 1857 as...
7. HMS Wild Swan.
*HMS Wild Swan. There were twelve East African seamen on board the steam screw sloop HMS 'Wild Swan' in 1881. Eight of these were from Zanzibar, two were from...
8. Outside the children's hospital, Shadwell.
*Outside the children's hospital, Shadwell. Mothers and their children wait for admission outside the East London Hospital for Children in Shadwell. This charity hospital, founded thanks to the...
9. Prison hulk.
*Prison hulk. When the North American colonies declared their independence in 1776 and closed their ports to British convict ships, a crisis in the criminal...
10. Three convicts and a guard.
*Three convicts and a guard. In the 18th century there were over 150 offences punishable by either the death penalty or transportation to the Americas. The newly independent...
 
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