Benjamin Bombastes basil cameron Figures dressed in fashionable and

Figures dressed in fashionable and professional costume

In Greek mythology

Pedestrians in straw hats cross the relatively traffic-free street

including omnibuses

The top image is an interior view of St Stephen Walbrook with figures

Benjamin Bombastes basil cameron Figures dressed in fashionable and'Benjamin Bombastes', 1877. Benjamin Disraeli, now Earl of Beaconsfield, the Conservative Prime Minister, is depicted standing next to a signpost marked Egypt and Constantinople. His boots, handing from a peg, bear the words 'British Interests'. Egypt was where the British had a key interest in the Suez Canal and Constantinople represents the main focus of the war between Russia and Turkey. Britain had asked for assurances that the Suez would not be