The interior of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London sharp as a knife in the late 19th century

in the late 19th century it was dismantled and moved to Theobalds Park

Borough High Street

'The Rivals'

with some in the foreground who may be mud-larking - looking for anything washed up by the tide that they might use or sell

Vignetted portrait of Charles Gassiot

The interior of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London sharp as a knife in the late 19th centuryThe interior of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London, 1785. A view of the interior of the Pantheon, showing Mr Lunardi's Balloon as exhibited in 1784. Fashionably dressed figures stand underneath the balloon and on the balcony above. Vincenzo Lunardi successfully ascended from the Artillery Ground at Moorfields in this red and white silk hydrogen balloon and flew to Ware, Hertfordshire, in September 1784.