Gordon Riots, Newgate Prison, London mb-height 4121 Four elevations of Leadenhall Street

Four elevations of Leadenhall Street

A spectacles seller holding up a pair of glasses

The idle apprentice plays hustle-cap with some pickpockets and a shoeblack on a tombstone

A fat tradesman stands at the door of a house chattering with an elderly couple

Map of the River Thames from Tilbury to Westminster

Gordon Riots, Newgate Prison, London mb-height 4121 Four elevations of Leadenhall StreetView of rioters setting fire to Newgate Prison, London, 1780 and burning Mr Akerman's furniture. In the crowd on the right a flag is held with the writing 'No Popery' on it. This riot formed part of the Gordon Riots. Lord George Gordon, a retired navy lieutenant, was strongly opposed to proposals for Catholic Emancipation. On 2nd June, 1780, Gordon led a crowd of 50,000 people to the House of Commons to present a petition for the repeal of the 1778