Parhelia observed in Kent Size:XS: 25 x 20cm The Alfred's Head Inn on

The Alfred's Head Inn on the corner of Newington Causeway and London Road

9th May 1971

Hans Place

Figure 2 Aspidiotus ficus

The fire is still blazing fiercely on the warehouse on the left

Parhelia observed in Kent Size:XS: 25 x 20cm The Alfred's Head Inn onStudy of parhelia, or sun dogs, the atmospheric phenomenon presenting as halos and mock suns. Figure cited (but not reproduced) in the paper 'A representation of the parhelia seen in Kent, Dec 19 1741 and an account of the same, as seen by Mrs Tennison at Canterbury', by Henry Miles, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 42 1742 1743, pp. 46 48. This drawing is inscribed 'The celestial phaenomenon seen at Canterbury 10h 12m 1741 Dec.