Part of a wall of the old British Museum, Bloomsbury, London lumber and receiving alms in the

and receiving alms in the shape of a coin from a sweep's boy and offal from a butcher's roundsman

closed in 1880

Two women in elaborate costumes and large hats

and more than 600 holidaymakers were drowned

The dispute dragged on with the verdict of the original poll reversed on two more occasions

Part of a wall of the old British Museum, Bloomsbury, London lumber and receiving alms in thePart of a wall of the old British Museum, Bloomsbury, London, 1850. The original home of the British Museum, Montague House, was demolished in the 1840s; the Central Hall of the new building, designed by Robert Smirke, was opened in 1847.