Bank, London Finish:Stretched Clere Parsons standing and Charles

Clere Parsons standing and Charles Algernon Parsons seated on the platform rail near two male observers

The representative of Britain's honest and sober working-class is diligently posting his small savings into the door of the Cormorant Friendly Society

An illustration of a 'Fuegian (Yapoo Tekeenica) at Portrait Cove' drawn during the second voyage of HMS Beagle

James Bradley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718

Bank, London Finish:Stretched Clere Parsons standing and CharlesBank, London, 1926 1927. The original Bank was built by George Sampson between 1732 and 1734. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London, 1926 1927).