A Great Parochial Storm mb-code 1237443 Also included in the foreground

Also included in the foreground is a small straw boat

People go about their business

The Ffestiniog Railway is the oldest independent railway company in the World - being founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832

Pond Street

showing a figure with a wheelbarrow

A Great Parochial Storm mb-code 1237443 Also included in the foreground'A Great Parochial Storm', 1879. A weary plant struggles to keep upright in the face of some unseasonable summer weather. This little cartoon of a capital 'A' illustrates a satirical piece that accuses people of writing to The Times to complain about the weather as though the rain fell solely upon them. From Punch, or the London Charivari, August 30, 1879.