Genre:

Advertisement, Spoof

Subjects:

Railways, Environmentalism, Archaeology, Zoological Gardens, Progress

    A series of advertisements, each of which announces events and courses of action made necessary by the encroachment of the railway lines of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company. For example, one advertisement announces that the 'Lord of the Manor of Stonehenge wishes to 'inform archaeologists and others' that the 'Druidical remain will be on view until the 1st of April, when it will be put into thorough repair, and converted into an engine-house' for the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, while another advertisement informs the 'animals at the Zoological Gardens' about possible plans to turn their gardens into a coal depot.