Royal reception on London Bridge St Paul's Churchyard and soldiers on the right

and soldiers on the right

Mercers' Hall had frontages on Cheapside and also Ironmonger Lane

East India Docks

all carrying bundles of straw

which permitted the French to withdraw their surrounded troops from Portugal unmolested and was seen as a national disgrace back in Britain

Royal reception on London Bridge St Paul's Churchyard and soldiers on the rightRoyal reception on London Bridge, 1863. Scene of the reception of Princess Alexandra of Denmark at the triumphal arch, London Bridge, with a guard of honour of the Honorable Artillery Company. The occasion marked the arrival of the princess in London on 7th March 1863, prior to her marriage to the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII.