London's Nightmare mb-code PG-1122 12th December 1977

12th December 1977

Hot Chestnut hawker in Leicester Square

The Salt Tower was built in 1235 during the reign of Henry III

with a banquet at the Corporation's expense

London's Nightmare mb-code PG-1122 12th December 1977'London's Nightmare', 1866. A man holding banner with the word Bumbledom on it, sits on the chest of a woman representing London. He has a particularly stupid expression on his face. Bumbledom was the term used to encapsulate 'the conflicting jurisdictions of folks who ought to have no jurisdiction at all, and who job, blunder, squabble, and utterly misgovern the metropolis of the world'. Bumbledom was thus seen as stifling the capital. From Punch, or