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Coming from Evening Church, 1830, (1947). Creator: Samuel Palmer

Coming from Evening Church, 1830, (1947). Congregation leaving an Evensong service in Shoreham, Kent, with full moon above the church. Painting in the Tate Gallery, London. From "English Hymns and Hymn Writers", by Adam Fox. [Collins, London, 1947]

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Saartje Baartman, also known as The Hottentot Venus

Saartje ('Sarah') Baartman (1789-1815), also known as The Hottentot Venus - an African servant girl from South Africa's Eastern Cape of the Khoisan tribe brought to London in 1810 & exhibited at freak shows and private events there and in Paris, where she died 1815, with sections of her body preserved and displayed at Paris's Museum of Man (until 1974). Her remains were repartriated to South Africa and re-interred in 2002. Date: 1811

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Trumpers Barbers - Mayfair, London

Barbershop in Central London - Mayfair. G F Trumper & Sons. An elaborate belt-driven machinery above the mirror drives a head massaging brush. Established 1875. Matchless range of gentleman's fragrances and grooming products. Still at the same location today and still has the massaging brushes - in use today! Their own preparations bear a famous cap in the shape of a crown - visible in the cabinets above the sink counter

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