The Last Fast Thing mb-code 1238862 Speke and Grant

Speke and Grant

Cart horses feeding from nose bags at Billingsgate Fish Market in the East End of London

dressed in the clothes of the past

A raree show was a peep show or puppet show carried around in a box

Cross-looking man dancing with one shoe and a ruff

The Last Fast Thing mb-code 1238862 Speke and Grant'The Last Fast Thing', 1866 Women who attempted to enter the public sphere of men were often labelled 'fast'. Here, Punch takes a dig at such women, showing an entirely female fire crew. One of the ladies has evidently been called away from a formal evening function to attend to her duty, 'Lady O'Brian, of Boyce Gilbert, to the Rescue!!!' From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 12, 1866.