The British Slave Finish:Single Good Friday in Castile

Good Friday in Castile

View of the south bank of the River Thames between Waterloo Bridge on the left and Hungerford Bridge on the right

'Wit's last stake

The car is pictured on the starting grid for a race

The British Slave Finish:Single Good Friday in Castile'The British Slave', 1861. The worker, a bricklayer, has been on strike, but, looking at his distressed wife and children, has realised his family needs him to return to work. There is no fire in the grate, nor food on the table. His working tools lie idle on the floor under a notice of the bricklayers' demands. A union official, stout, florid and well dressed, finds it easy to instruct the bricklayer to remain on strike, and not to give in, Want to