Perambulators in Hyde Park ! 1819 16th Century In the central foreground are

In the central foreground are Townshend

it shows the poor and overcrowed conditions in which the poor lived in Victorian times

Twenty years later this stretch of Thames was transformed by the Victoria Embankment

Hansom cabs and horse carts found little use for Victoria Embankment

near the dome with few visitors looking at its architecture

Perambulators in Hyde Park ! 1819 16th Century In the central foreground arePerambulators in Hyde Park!: Coloured etching. Pedestrians and chickens are mown down by velocipedes ridden by top hatted young men about town. There is a description of the machines, invented by Baron Von Drais, on which a person can travel 8 or 10 miles an hour.