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                             LONDON CRIES

                                   &

                            Public Edifices

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                                  by

                                 LVKE
                                LIMNER
                                  ESQ

                          GRANT AND GRIFFITH.

                   SUCCESSORS TO NEWBERY AND HARRIS

             1 CORNER OF SAINT PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON.

                                 1851.

                  [Illustration: THE TOWER OF LONDON.

               POTS & KETTLES TO MEND, BELLOWS TO MEND.]




POTS AND KETTLES TO MEND!--COPPER OR BRASS TO MEND!


The Tinker is swinging his fire-pot to make it burn, having placed his
soldering-iron in it, and is proceeding to some corner or post, there to
repair the saucepan he carries.--We commence with the most interesting
edifice in our capital,


THE TOWER OF LONDON;

the fortress, the palace, and prison, in which so many events, connected
with the history of our country, have transpired. The building with four
towers in the centre is said to have been erected by William the
Conqueror, and is the oldest part of the fortress. The small bell-tower
in the front of our picture is that of the church of St. Peter’s, (the
tower being a parish itself,) on the Tower Green, erected in the reign
of Edward I. Our view is taken from Tower Hill, near which was the
scaffold on which so many have fallen. To the left of the picture stood
the grand storehouse of William III., destroyed by fire