London's Nightmare mb-code PG-1122 The Salt Tower was built

The Salt Tower was built in 1235 during the reign of Henry III

View of Bridewell

He is probably wearing a wig

Gun Maker and Sword Cutler on Whitehall and Spring Gardens

London's Nightmare mb-code PG-1122 The Salt Tower was built'London's Nightmare', 1866. A man holding banner with the word Bumbledom on it, sits on the chest of a woman representing London. He has a particularly stupid expression on his face. Bumbledom was the term used to encapsulate 'the conflicting jurisdictions of folks who ought to have no jurisdiction at all, and who job, blunder, squabble, and utterly misgovern the metropolis of the world'. Bumbledom was thus seen as stifling the capital. From Punch, or