The last of the Royal Aquarium
The last of a popular place amusement - a sketch at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster. Scenes in the Royal Aquarium on its final day before the building was closed. Opened on 7 January 1876, over the years it had been the venue for a variety of crowd-pleasing entertainments including Zazel and the catapult, ladies cycle races, poster exhibitions, the bioscope of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight and a boxing kangaroo
Picture No
13808211
Media ID
46785568
Size
4976px x 3520px
(7.4MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by A. Castaigne in The Graphic', 17 January 1903, pages 84 & 85
Date
1903
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