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Serpentine, Hyde Park 64R_HYD_1814_S

MAYSON BEETON COLLECTION. Woodcut. Hyde Park, London. 'The Representation of a Seafight on the Serpentine River, in commemoration of Peace in 1814'. One of a series of events to celebrate the first defeat of Napoleon. These miniature naval battles featured model men-o-war, illuminations and pyrotechnics. After Batchelar, Printer and Publisher, Long Alley, Crown Street, Finsbury Square, London

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Apsley House engraving N110159

APSLEY HOUSE, Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, London. "View of Piccadilly from Hyde Park Corner Turnpike" dated 1810. No 19 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts. This view shows the original red brick house of 1771-8, designed by Robert Adam. It was substantially enlarged and remodelled by the Duke of Wellington, but it retains some Adam features in the interior. MAYSON BEETON COLLECTION

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Dudley blast furnaces OP02658

Blast furnace, Russell'??s Hall, Dudley, West Midlands, 1859. Mr Mills, dilute albumen print. Mr Mills, otherwise unknown as a photographer, recorded the blast furnaces at Russell'??s Hall, west of Dudley, when the industry was producing a vast number of iron products, including nails, boilers, vices and chains. Coal mining around Dudley had been recorded in the early 13th century and the area was famous for the manufacture of iron nails in the early 16th century. By the late 18th century Dudley was at the centre of England'??s iron industry, and the region was dubbed the '??Black Country'?? because of the blackening of the landscape by the coal and iron industries. Russell'??s Hall itself was pockmarked by clay pits and coal shafts, and significant urban development only took place after the Second World War

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