Glaive Size:XL: 120 x 40cm ' A rabbit seller stands

' A rabbit seller stands with dead rabbits hanging from a pole resting on his shoulder and holding a dead bird in his hand

The Queen visits Manchester

Lower class workers had long been encouraged to save so as to provide for themselves and their families during the frequent seasonal periods of unemployment that caused so many families to drift into real poverty

All three men appear to have been disturbed in the middle of their duties: Professor Steele has blood on his hands and Sir Alfred Cuschieri is holding a medical implement

Above and to the right as viewed are a curtain and architectural column

Glaive Size:XL: 120 x 40cm ' A rabbit seller standsGlaive, mid 16th century, (1843). Drawn from an original weapon from the armoury at the Tower of London. The glaive consisted of a long cutting blade. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).