The Silent Highway - Man Finish:10-pack Tower Bridge with bascules closed

Tower Bridge with bascules closed and barges passing under at high water

Watched by a baleful Disraeli

Interior view of the Pantheon's entrance viewed from the music gallery

View of coaches in the yard at the Spread Eagle Inn

The Silent Highway - Man Finish:10-pack Tower Bridge with bascules closed'The Silent Highway Man.', 1858. Your MONEY or your LIFE!. The Thames in the summer of 1858 was in a dangerously filthy state. This cartoon shows Death rowing through the sluggish waters of the River Thames, with the usual complement of dead and swollen dogs floating by. The title refers to the fact that the river was so contaminated that it did not so much ebb and flow, as ooze. Such was the stench from the river that parliamentary proceedings were