Too Civil by Half mb-height 329 Fishing from Hastings Pier

Fishing from Hastings Pier

showing the new tower of the Royal Exchange

A large woman having difficulty passing through a gap in a fence

View of the Adelphi Terrace

Too Civil by Half mb-height 329 Fishing from Hastings Pier'Too Civil by Half', 1862. Dressed as matrons, the Conservatives Lord Derby (with the glasses) and Disraeli have come to pay a social call on the Liberal Prime Minister, Palmerston. This illustrates the amount of social calling, and the conventions surrounding the practice, that ladies of the middle and upper classes would do. Palmerston is not at all keen that the visit should be repeated as he is determined that they the Conservatives should not get