Description

View of Ludgate

showing a thin old woman dressed in one-pound notes

some of which are occupied

Clerkenwell'

27th August 1802

Siege at the Tower of London brewery View of LudgateTower of London under siege during the riots of November 1830. A mob of men, women and children armed with pea shooters, bad eggs, rotten fruit and kitchen and bedroom slops are attacking the Tower, which appears out of a cloud of smoke. Riots on a huge scale were expected on Lord Mayor's Day 1830 but did not develop.

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