Henry III renewing the Magna Carta in 1253 Size:Large: 7 x 5in Elton John poses with comedians

Elton John poses with comedians Ernie Wise (left) and Eric Morecambe as he appears on the Morecambe and Wise show at BBC television centre

30th November 1962

A cherry seller outside St James's Palace with a wheelbarrow full of cherries

taken from the sterling at low water

Plate 16 from A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell

Henry III renewing the Magna Carta in 1253 Size:Large: 7 x 5in Elton John poses with comediansHenry III renewing the Magna Carta in 1253 (1905). In Westminster Hall, the King took a solemn oath to keep inviolate the articles of the Charter on pain of excommunication. A print from Parliament Past and Present by Arnold Wright, Philip Smith, London.