The Ugly Duckling mb-code 2502668 View of the crowded entrance

View of the crowded entrance to Hyde Park on a Sunday

'The Rival Con jurors'

a disabled man wheeling himself along on a pallet and musicians playing to a crowd

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh with Prince Charles

The Ugly Duckling mb-code 2502668 View of the crowded entranceThe Ugly Duckling, 1873. Britannia and Neptune watch one of the new iron clad ships 'Devastation' leave port. Such ships were armed with giant guns. The First Lord of the Admiralty, George Goschen, had overspent on the 12 ships by some 235,000 over his initial budget of 2 million. Mr Punch was not concerned for, as he said, the ships were so strong that the rest of the world, together, could not produce a force to fight Britain. From Punch, or the