The Great Eastern on Stocks 1857 Size:medium Covent Garden in the morning

Covent Garden in the morning - showing the tavern Tom King's Coffee House in front of St Pauls

in part due to the Nationality Act of 1948

by walking up and down Oxford Street

George Davison Reid took this photo from the steps of St Martin's-in-the-Fields church

The Great Eastern on Stocks 1857 Size:medium Covent Garden in the morningThe Great Eastern on Stocks. Coloured illustration from 'The London illustrated News', Vol 31 page 465 July Dec 1857, showing 'The great eastern' under construction and sitting on the stocks. The Great Eastern was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and built during 1857 by the engineer and iron ship designer John Scott Russell.