Cawnpore Well, India Product:Greetings card George Eliot

George Eliot

'A stir in the City

He changed the name of the Royal Family from the House of Saxe-Coborg and Gotha to the House of Windsor in 1917 as anti-German sentiment increased during World War I

Palmerston was approaching 80 years of age

In the foreground are Westminster Abbey

Cawnpore Well, India Product:Greetings card George EliotCawnpore Well, India, c1925. View of a memorial to an event which took place during the period of British rule. in what is now known as Kanpur. The Memorial Church commemorates a massacre of British civilians at Bibi Ghar (the House of the Ladies) in 1857. Their bodies were thrown down a nearby well. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Indian Empire, 1st series.