How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed Product:Postcard In addition

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The queen stands in the centre

The hospital was designed by Christopher Wren and was built between 1682 and 1692 to house war veterans

How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed Product:Postcard In addition'How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed', 1858. A British workman in overalls and boots holds a large brush in one hand, and a handkerchief to his nose with the other. He has a bucket of lime at his feet which he is using to clean Father Thames who, with an old, weedy, kettle impaled on his staff, rests on an outlet pipe which gushes its untreated sewage into the river. This cartoon relates to Disraeli's Bill to purify the Thames, in which he