Ballymaclinton, Irish village, Franco-British Exhibition, London Product:Postcard Blackheath

Blackheath

including the Rising Sun Tavern

Signed lower left 'Willm

chrysalis and moths of the silk worm Bombyx mori

Andrew Ure was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821

Ballymaclinton, Irish village, Franco-British Exhibition, London Product:Postcard BlackheathBallymaclinton, Irish village, Franco British Exhibition, London, 1908. The Franco British Exhibition of 1908 celebrated the Entente Cordiale which had been signed by the United Kingdom and France in 1904. The fair was the largest exhibition of its kind in Britain, and the first international exhibition co organised and sponsored by two countries. The most popular attractions at the exhibition were the two so called colonial villages, an Irish village