Portrait of Brook Taylor (1685-1731) Empe Jack Brabham's Brabham car leads

Jack Brabham's Brabham car leads

The new bridge being built over the River Lea

The fickle pumpkin may have proved a winner for Cinderella but it landed old Alfie Ayling in the pillory

showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew's Priory

and had reduced the duty on sugar and fire insurances

Portrait of Brook Taylor (1685-1731) Empe Jack Brabham's Brabham car leadsHead and shoulders portrait of Brook Taylor in a painted oval, wearing a shoulder length grey wig. Taylor is dressed in a light brown coat with prominent buttons, opened to show a yellow silk waistcoat brocaded in a floral design with silver and dark green, also open, and a white shirt and cravat. Artist unknown, possibly by studio of Hans Hysing (1678 1752 or 1753). Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. Original: oil on canvas,