View of New River Head, Finsbury, London mb-height 3674 Broad Street Station

Broad Street Station

Lord Mayor 1815-1817

A war veteran in the traditional red uniform of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea

In the foreground figures eat oysters from a stall and in the middle a boy and a man attempt to pick the pocket of a corpulent man

View of New River Head, Finsbury, London mb-height 3674 Broad Street StationView of New River Head, Finsbury, London, c1753; with figures. Completed in 1713, this was a massive engineering project to improve London's water supply by collecting clean water from 40 miles away and bringing it to large cisterns at Finsbury. From there it was delivered to the city in pipes made from hollowed elm trunks.