Description

Barrels wait on the wharf

27th August 1802

The sign of the rose hangs above the door

View of Ludgate

Clerkenwell'

Siege at the Tower of London brewery Barrels wait on the wharfTower of London under siege during the riots of November 1830. A mob of men, women and children armed with pea shooters, bad eggs, rotten fruit and kitchen and bedroom slops are attacking the Tower, which appears out of a cloud of smoke. Riots on a huge scale were expected on Lord Mayor's Day 1830 but did not develop.

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