London's Nightmare mb-code 1620220 designed by Robert Smirke

designed by Robert Smirke

11th September 1971

David Gibson and Mike Stringfellow are seen trying out a Tiller Girls high stepping routine

the building on the right is Hogarth's studio

8 litre unit

London's Nightmare mb-code 1620220 designed by Robert Smirke'London's Nightmare', 1866. A man holding banner with the word Bumbledom on it, sits on the chest of a woman representing London. He has a particularly stupid expression on his face. Bumbledom was the term used to encapsulate 'the conflicting jurisdictions of folks who ought to have no jurisdiction at all, and who job, blunder, squabble, and utterly misgovern the metropolis of the world'. Bumbledom was thus seen as stifling the capital. From Punch, or