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Scottish actor James Copeland

One man is vomiting

The car on the left-hand side is a Bentley and the car in the centre is a Vauxhall

Passengers disembarking from steamboats tied up in mid-stream at Hungerford Pier and ascending by stairs to footbridge level

Portion of London Wall showing the internal face on Cooper's Row

The Rival Curtii mb-width 4222 Scottish actor James Copeland'The Rival Curtii', 1858. Above the new cutting in the heart of the countryside, two rival railway companies, dressed as gladiators, battle it out for the licence to run trains or iron horses on the line. From Punch, or the London Charivari, April 17, 1858.