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Chinese Building and Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens

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

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Seven young apprentice female jockeys sitting on a wooden fence during their training at the National Equestrian Centre in Stoneleigh

Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season patent chariot Chinese Building and Rotunda in'Patent First Class Costume for the Collision Season', 1876. Travel by train was a risky business in the 1870s and collisions were not uncommon. The two men in this cartoon are well prepared for any eventuality. This was a regular topic in Punch as the journal often highlighted the lack of proper investment in the country's railway network. From Punch, or the London Charivari, August 19, 1876.