3-070-825 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The George Stephenson Centenary at Newcastle-On-Tyne: banquet at the Assembly Rooms, Westgate-Road: arrival of the guests, 1881. People arriving at a '...festive banquet [for] George Stephenson's hundredth birthday anniversary'. Illustration published in a special supplement to celebrate the centenary of the birth of British civil engineer and mechanical engineer George Stephenson (1781-1848). From "Illustrated London News", 1881.