St John's Gate on a Sunday, Clerkenwell, London oast house The bell is being lowered

The bell is being lowered through a trap-door in the platform and the feet of a diver manning the bell are just visible

1832-1833)

Plate 57 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales

including a carriage and omnibus

and it had a cruising speed 50 mph

St John's Gate on a Sunday, Clerkenwell, London oast house The bell is being loweredSt John's Gate on a Sunday, Clerkenwell, London, 1926 1927. The gate was built in 1504 by Thomas Docwra, prior of the Priory of the Knights of Saint John. It served as the south entrance to the inner precinct. Part of the building is now used as a museum of the Knights Hospitallers and the St John's Ambulance Brigade. Illustration from Wonderful London, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, Volume I, published by Amalgamated Press, (London, 1926 1927).