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The monument to the Great Fire of London is 202 feet tall (61.5 meters). Early steamers were fitted with tall chimneys not only to take away the clouds of sooty smoke that they produced but also to reduce the risk that these wooden craft would catch fire; which they often did.
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The English accused the Irish of taking bread from their mouths and driving down wages. Gang warfare between English and Irish navvies became commonplace.

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Note the similarity of the assailants dress to that of the assailants in this image of the Whiteboys, who used violence to defend the interests of tenant farmers and who were active in Ireland during the 1780s

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Probably Clarence dock Liverpool (opened September 1830) This picture comes from the Illustrated London News, 1st October 1842

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  1. [Note 524.4]
  2. [Note 591.1]
  3. [Note 591.5]
  4. [202Notation]

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