Northern planisphere, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' mb-code Job_0439 'The Guard of 1852' and

'The Guard of 1852' and 'The Guard of 1832

early 1920s

The interior of Billingsgate Market showing fishmongers and their stalls

In Britain in the 1890s

Northern planisphere, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' mb-code Job_0439 'The Guard of 1852' andThe stars of the northern hemisphere. Map 27 from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, or star atlas (London, 1729). This was the first celestial atlas based on telescopic observations. Published posthumously, it was the work of the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed FRS (1646 1719), and used the catalogue of 2935 stars in his 1725 Historia Coelestis Britannica. Original: engraving. 1729