Ruins of Bethune, France, World War I Finish:Rolled pictured at his London Office

pictured at his London Office Suite

A knife grinder sharpening a knife on Whitehall

Although the Conservative Party was basking in the success of its Reform Bill

displaying the latest summer fashions

The impoverished Lord Squanderfield has arranged a marriage between his son and the daughter of a wealthy alderman and merchant

Ruins of Bethune, France, World War I Finish:Rolled pictured at his London OfficeRuins of Bethune, France, World War I, c1915 c1918. Smouldering Bethune, ignited by German guns for the defeat at Festubert. The Battle of Festubert was part of the wider Artois Offensive carried out by the British and Empire armies in May 1915. It succeeded in making a small advance through the German lines of about 1 kilometre but cost 16,000 casualties. In April 1918, German artillery bombardment virtually destroyed the town of Bethune during the