Fireworks at Green Park, St James's, April 27th Treswell Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930)

Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930)

with school children playing

On 3 August 1914 Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium the following day

seated at a desk in the act of writing

View of Battersea Bridge looking across the River Thames

Fireworks at Green Park, St James's, April 27th Treswell Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930)Fireworks at Green Park, St James's, April 27th, 1749. 'The Grand Whim for Prosperity to Laugh at: Being the night view of the royal fireworks as exhibited in the Green Park, St James's with the right wing on fire and the cutting away the two middle arches to prevent the whole fabric from being destroyed.' A fireworks display, with music specially composed by Handel, was held to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing