Looking into the Accounts mb-code 1620214 Sir Isaac Newton's house and

Sir Isaac Newton's house and observatory

The house had been erected by Sir Thomas Pope on the site (and had incorporated several of the buildings) of the dissolved Bermondsey Abbey

selling bundles of matches from a large basket he is carrying over one arm

seen on the floor

Looking into the Accounts mb-code 1620214 Sir Isaac Newton's house and'Looking into the Accounts', 1861. Mr Bull, the representative of the British people, hangs up his coat and hat, ready for a long stint of checking the nation's finances. Mr Gladstone, perched uncomfortably on a high stool, rather like the descriptions of Dickens's Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, with a quill behind his ear, is caught in the act of closing the ledger marked 'Income Tax'. John Bull is encouraging Gladstone to take a short break so