3-053-639 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Boys of the Greenwich Hospital Schools inspected by the Shah, [south-west London], 1873. The Shah of Persia '...and the Princes landed at the hospital stairs. They were conducted by Mr. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, to luncheon in the Painted Hall. About five o'clock they came out, when the boys of the Chichester training-ship, in honour of the Shah, manned the yards of the model-ship rigging, on the masts erected in the grounds of the Greenwich Royal Hospital School'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.