The old observing-room, Greenwich mb-code NA015725 about 1840

about 1840

and have much magical meaning

it was eventually agreed that a second canal would be constructed on receipt of a loan of £8

The Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Asylum

convicted and sentenced to transportation to New England for seven years

The old observing-room, Greenwich mb-code NA015725 about 1840The old observing room, Greenwich, late 17th century (1893). The Royal Observatory at Greenwich was founded in 1675 by King Charles II, with John Flamsteed appointed as the first Astronomer Royal. The building, with its octagonal observing room, was designed by Sir Christopher Wren. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume III, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.