Gordon Riots, Newgate Prison, London mb-height 4121 The idle apprentice plays hustle-cap

The idle apprentice plays hustle-cap with some pickpockets and a shoeblack on a tombstone

The statue was erected in Hyde Park in honour of the Duke of Wellington

on the east side of Stoke Newington Road

Map of the River Thames from Tilbury to Westminster

A spectacles seller holding up a pair of glasses

Gordon Riots, Newgate Prison, London mb-height 4121 The idle apprentice plays hustle-capView of rioters setting fire to Newgate Prison, London, 1780 and burning Mr Akerman's furniture. In the crowd on the right a flag is held with the writing 'No Popery' on it. This riot formed part of the Gordon Riots. Lord George Gordon, a retired navy lieutenant, was strongly opposed to proposals for Catholic Emancipation. On 2nd June, 1780, Gordon led a crowd of 50,000 people to the House of Commons to present a petition for the repeal of the 1778