The Funeral of Queen Victoria Chalk Farm Tavern Drawing of Brontes flabellifer

Drawing of Brontes flabellifer

inscribed Pension to one of the rats

Napier L48 racing car

An execution of witches in England

The Funeral of Queen Victoria Chalk Farm Tavern Drawing of Brontes flabellifer'The Funeral of Queen Victoria', Portsmouth, 1 February 1901. The paddle steamer carrying the Queen's body passing HMS 'Victory' as it arrives at Portsmouth from the Isle of Wight. Victoria (1819 1901) succeeded her uncle, William IV, to the throne in 1837. Her reign, the longest of any British monarch to date, saw the peak of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the British Empire into the world's pre eminent power From 'The Illustrated London