The Great Melbourne Telescope mb-artist W_Wallis Warriors rest in a woodland

Warriors rest in a woodland clearing

View of the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London

24th July 1969

the Bill had been placed to the back of government business and now had no chance of being fully debated prior to the end of the 1884 Session of Parliament

The Great Melbourne Telescope mb-artist W_Wallis Warriors rest in a woodlandThe 48 inch reflecting telescope, designed by Thomas Grubb, seen erected at Grubb's works at Rathmines in Dublin, Ireland. A workman takes up the observer's position, sitting in a temporary chair observer. The telescope was tested at the Grubb works before being sent to the Melbourne Observatory, Australia, to become operational in 1869. Inscribed verso in pencil: '? Melbourne telescope' Original: albumen print. 1867