3-070-853 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The George Stephenson Centenary Festival: firework display in Leazes Park, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1881. Pyrotechnics featuring a portrait of Stephenson. 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.