Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season Finish:Rolled Execution of protestants at Smithfield

Execution of protestants at Smithfield

and London in the distance

Centre: Bruce Rioch

perhaps a metaphor for sex

Street scene in Watling Street

Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season Finish:Rolled Execution of protestants at Smithfield'Patent First Class Costume for the Collision Season', 1876. Travel by train was a risky business in the 1870s and collisions were not uncommon. The two men in this cartoon are well prepared for any eventuality. This was a regular topic in Punch as the journal often highlighted the lack of proper investment in the country's railway network. From Punch, or the London Charivari, August 19, 1876.