Chronology Product:Postcard in one a figure is

in one a figure is pulling in a fishing net

By the time of its dissolution in the early 1860s its lawyers had a disreputable reputation

A crowd of seamen makes a bonfire of the fittings of brothels

'Passing a Mud Cart'

1st September 1964

Chronology Product:Postcard in one a figure is'Chronology', 1869. Ever since the geologist, Sir Charles Lyell, had proposed in the 1830s that the world was much older than had previously been supposed, the debate had raged about how established biblical belief could be brought to accord with new scientific findings. Some found such a compromise difficult to make. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 4, 1869.