Astley's Amphitheatre 1808 Blitz This spectacular event

This spectacular event

Wolfgang Suschitzky photographed the working-class community that populated the Charing Cross area at the time

too foreign

crowded and noisy place: 'Countrymen

narrow houses and church spires

Astley's Amphitheatre 1808 Blitz This spectacular eventInterior of Astley's Amphitheatre at Westminster Bridge Road, as rebuilt in 1803 after one of several fires in its history. Scene showing a performance in progress. A man is balancing on the backs of three horses and the ring master is dressed as a clown. Illustration from Ackermann's 'The Microcosm of London', Vol. I, plate 4, opposite page. 23. Coloured etching and aquatint.