View of the London Gymnastic Society Gymnasium, Pentonville, London Wheatley Alfred became King of Wessex

Alfred became King of Wessex during a time of constant Viking attack

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New Kent Road

It is regarded as possibly the finest of the so-called 'Commissioners' Churches' built after 1711 by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches

Showing a pig in military uniform (General Sir Eyre Coote) standing on its hind legs and being birched by three Christ's Hospital boys

View of the London Gymnastic Society Gymnasium, Pentonville, London Wheatley Alfred became King of WessexView of the London Gymnastic Society Gymnasium, Pentonville, London, 1826. Showing men performing various exercises including parallel bars and tug of war. With a dedication to John Borthwick Gilchrist beneath.