3-070-594 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Commencement of the Hull, Barnsley, and West Riding Railway and Dock: procession and banquet, 1881. 'The Rullymen; [draught horses and prize cow]; Hull Festival Choir; bricklayers; [carnival float, model ship and carpentry workshop]; Riveting; Heart & Hand; lath render at work; masons at work; miners boys with lamps; mast makers; [laying foundation stone]; the banquet; pastoral; [blacksmith's forge]; the Salvation Army'. The town celebrates the building of a new railway line. From Illustrated London News", 1881.