Just A'goin' to Begin! singing View of Chamberlain's Wharf

View of Chamberlain's Wharf

'Going it by steam'

shows Kenwood House in the distance

with women of fashion wearing enormous hoop skirts with pulley operated lifting devices

The image has been laterally inverted for use with a vue d' optique viewing box

Just A'goin' to Begin! singing View of Chamberlain's Wharf'Just A'goin' to Begin!', 1887. WH Smith as a fairground showman, invites the public to his show; the principal parliamentary figures are there, with Charles Parnell dressed as a bandit and Benjamin Disraeli taking the money; behind the platform panels show The Insatiable Irish Growley Wowly, Randolph the Man Sphinx and the Bulgarian Boojum.