Enforcing prohibition post mortem Inscribed below in pencil: 'Iris

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The episode is said to have inspired the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down

The German Eagle sits mournfully on a rock high above the sinking sun

Interior of the Church of St Martin Outwich

Enforcing prohibition post mortem Inscribed below in pencil: 'IrisEnforcing prohibition, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 1920s. Law enforcement agents examining at a cache of 191 pint bottles found underneath a sailor's mattress on a steamer putting in at Norfolk, Virginia. The sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned in the United States under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress in 1919. The ban remained in force until the amendment was repealed