A typical scene at Temple Bar Gate , the principal ceremonial entrance to the City of London, England in the 18th century. showing the dress of the time, a woman street seller, a soldier and a woman using a sedan chair. More interestingly it shows the grisly macabre sight of CRIMINALS SEVERED HEADS SPIKED ON POLES above the arch.

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