Just A'goin' to Begin! singing women and children armed with

women and children armed with pea shooters

The image has been laterally inverted for use with a vue d' optique viewing box

A group of figures stands in the courtyard in front of the hospital

with women of fashion wearing enormous hoop skirts with pulley operated lifting devices

Just A'goin' to Begin! singing women and children armed with'Just A'goin' to Begin!', 1887. WH Smith as a fairground showman, invites the public to his show; the principal parliamentary figures are there, with Charles Parnell dressed as a bandit and Benjamin Disraeli taking the money; behind the platform panels show The Insatiable Irish Growley Wowly, Randolph the Man Sphinx and the Bulgarian Boojum.