The Setting out of the Train Bands from London... Size:XL: 100 x 75cm Rod Belfitt

Rod Belfitt

The scene satirises William Hogarth and his line of beauty

Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) laughing into microphone

The difficulty was overcome however when a double decker bus was purchased and converted into a home for 'George'

Children feeding the elephants

The Setting out of the Train Bands from London... Size:XL: 100 x 75cm Rod Belfitt'The Setting out of the Train Bands from London to raise the Siege of Gloucester', 1643, (19th century). Detail of a mural fresco by Charles West Cope in the Peers Corridor, Palace of Westminster, showing apprentices (train bands) leaving to fight in the Civil War. Illustration from Parliament Past and Present by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith, (London, c1905).