London's Nightmare mb-code 1620220 David Gibson and Mike Stringfellow

David Gibson and Mike Stringfellow are seen trying out a Tiller Girls high stepping routine

23rd July 1974

the building on the right is Hogarth's studio

is stabbed with a sword by Arthur Thistlewood

London's Nightmare mb-code 1620220 David Gibson and Mike Stringfellow'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