Cawnpore Well, India Product:Greetings card George Eliot

George Eliot

Palmerston was approaching 80 years of age

'A stir in the City

He changed the name of the Royal Family from the House of Saxe-Coborg and Gotha to the House of Windsor in 1917 as anti-German sentiment increased during World War I

Balcony with statues of the two giants Gog and Magog on either side of an ornate clock

Cawnpore Well, India Product:Greetings card George EliotCawnpore Well, India, c1925. View of a memorial to an event which took place during the period of British rule. in what is now known as Kanpur. The Memorial Church commemorates a massacre of British civilians at Bibi Ghar (the House of the Ladies) in 1857. Their bodies were thrown down a nearby well. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Indian Empire, 1st series.