Dr. Birch and His Young Friends Finish:Float frame Essex ahead of their Soccer

Essex ahead of their Soccer Players Athletics meeting at Crystal Palace

Hon Secretary of the Society and on his left is John Turner

The double winning Tottenham Hotspur Football Club are pictured at Cheshunt

various other dogs snap at the hooves of a bucking horse

'Men bemoaning peace'

Dr. Birch and His Young Friends Finish:Float frame Essex ahead of their Soccer'Dr. Birch and His Young Friends', 1880. Sir William Harcourt, the Liberal Home Secretary, prepares a birch labelled Juvenile Offenders Act. On the other side of the fence are a crowd of urchins enjoying themselves in different ways. Some are plaguing officialdom in the shape of a beadle. Others hurl rocks at a passing train. From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 2, 1880.