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Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

Archive Collections / Dr William Delano Walker / Series AA357/02 / Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

  1. Big Ben by night. Annotated "a corner of Westminster 9/31"

  2. foggy harbour scene. Annotated "Hull on a Novermber morning 3rd port in Gt Britain great centre for North Sea .fishing"

  3. harbour scene. Annotated "Cleopatra's Needle Thames embankment betn ChX and Waterloo bridge. This oblisk was quarried at Syene errected at On (Heliopolis) by the Pheroh Thomthmes 111 about 1500 BC. Lateral inscriptions were added 2 centuries later by Rameses the Great. Removed during the Greek Dynasty to Alexandria royal city of Cleopatra and erected there in the 18th yr of Augustus Ceaser in the year BC 12. Through the patriotic zeal of Erasmus Wilson this oblisk was brought from Alexandria encased in an iron cylinder. Abandonded during a storm in the Bay of Biscay on 14/10/1877 recovered and erected on the Thames embankment in 1878. This oblisk prostrate for centuries in the sands of Alexandria was presented to the British nation in 1819 by Mohamet Ali Viceroy of Egypt - a memorial to .Nelson,and Abercrombie"

  4. Chelsea pensioners. Annotated "3 Chelsea Pensioners at Flower show 30/5/34. Wm Crawley, Sgt Mantew, B Fielden. Taken near the Chillianwallah Monument (24th Regt 13/1/49) in the Royal Hospital grounds Chelsea"

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/2/60/3 A-D
Date Range:  1929  -  1938
Quantity:  0.1cm,    
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA357/02