The New Year's Gift London taxi 10th May 1976

10th May 1976

View of the church and graveyard of St James Clerkenwell

July 1974 74-4559-001

Bottom left view shows Chelsea Hospital and bottom right view shows Greenwich Hospital

The New Year's Gift London taxi 10th May 1976'The New Year's Gift', 1858. This cartoon shows Sir Colin Campbell presenting the leashed tiger of India to Palmerston who, rather in the manner of a lion tamer, shelters nervously behind a chair, reluctant to accept this barely tamed 'gift'. 'Pam (To Sir Colin). Well upon my word eh! I'm extremely obliged to you but eh! how about keeping the brute?'. Sir Colin Campbell was made Commander in Chief in India by Palmerston in July 1857, at the height of