Over the Way mb-artistname Gunion 'Middle Temple'

'Middle Temple'

Six views of St Paul's Cathedral

who cancelled the Lord Mayor's Show in 1830

amidst fighting and shouting spectators

first published in 1682

Over the Way mb-artistname Gunion 'Middle Temple''Over the Way', 1861. At the time the American Civil War began, Britain imported the bulk of its cotton from the United States. President Lincoln's blockade of the Southern ports caused Britain to suffer a 'cotton famine' which caused great distress to the workers in the mill towns of Lancashire. By early 1862, some quarter of a million workers in Lancashire were out of work and fresh sources of cotton, mainly from India, were sought. Here we see