View of the south front of York Watergate, Buckingham Street, Westminster, London mb-code 1239626 with boats including company barges

with boats including company barges on the River Thames

A Chelsea Pensioner

River Thames and part of the south bank with cattle grazing in fields

shows King George III and Queen Charlotte in a coach on their way to a thanksgiving service for the King's recovery from a severe illness

which he no doubt used to catch the rats

View of the south front of York Watergate, Buckingham Street, Westminster, London mb-code 1239626 with boats including company bargesView of the south front of York Watergate, Buckingham Street, Westminster, London, 1887. Built in 1626, this watergate gave access to the Thames from York House, a mansion on the Strand. The building of the Thames Embankment in the 1860s left it 150 yards from the river, in Embankment Gardens.