Northumberland House, Charing Cross mb-code 2378289 'The Betrothed'

'The Betrothed'

pushing her way through dense undergrowth to find that gentleman relaxing with his clay pipe

in his Bleriot type XI 24HP monoplane on 25 July 1909

with some in the foreground who may be mud-larking - looking for anything washed up by the tide that they might use or sell

Northumberland House, Charing Cross mb-code 2378289 'The Betrothed'Northumberland House, Charing Cross, 18th century, (1908). The statue by Hubert le Sueur of Charles I on horseback, right, is still there today, facing down Whitehall. Northumberland House was built between 1605 and 1609 and destroyed in 1874. The lion on the arch at the top is now at Syon House. A print from The Private Palaces of London by E Beresford Chancellor, (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co, London, 1908).