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Now a pub, it used to be a real corn exchange, then a public hall.

The agit prop statues in front of it commemorate a massacre which took place here in 1842.

I'm not sure how old the plastic bag is.

Is it ten years? twenty? thirty?

Pictures from Punch. 19th Century.

"Ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer" ~ it was ever so!

Penguins still consider it hip to wear shades at night.

Published in "The Illustrated London News" of the time, and hand coloured for framing in the same year.

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