The Vultures Size:Large: 7 x 5in a suitably simian Fenian sits

a suitably simian Fenian sits astride a barrel of gunpowder and has just lit the fuse

The lady of the household

The new bridge being built over the River Lea

previously called St Saviour's Church

The pastor

The Vultures Size:Large: 7 x 5in a suitably simian Fenian sits'The Vultures', 1887. The vultures of the War Office and Contractor hover over a fallen soldier. This concerned a great scandal over the supply of defective weapons to the armed forces. Some weapons were unfit for service. Bayonets would twist and bend, as would swords. Guns exploded and cartridges jammed. The supplies too often arrived via a corrupt system of contractors, but would, of course, put Britain's fighting men in grave danger in the field.