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'Falcon Glass Works near Bankside

It stood until 1882

View of a house in Wells Street

Fleet Street

Tuck in yer Twopenny! gendarme 'Falcon Glass Works near BanksideTuck in yer Twopenny!, 1867. This cartoon shows the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, Disraeli, leapfrogging over a mutinous John Bull. With a bill for a 2d rise in income tax in his hand, the Abyssinian expedition sits in his hat. In the background, King Theodore of Abyssinia makes off into the bushes. Earlier during the year, King Theodore of Abyssinia had arbitrarily imprisoned a number of British citizens, including a British envoy and a

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