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Cairo replaced Gibraltar on Saturday 25th March 1809.

British Press - 16 March 1809:

Barker also had a Panorama in the Strand, where interesting views of Dover and Copenhagen could be seen in the summer of 1809 (Morning Post 28 July 1809).

Cairo and Dublin were still on view at the Leicester Square Panorama in September (Morning Herald (London) 30 September 1809)

The Dublin exhibit was closed on 27th February 1810, replaced by Flushing. Cairo was to continue for a short time. ( Morning Chronicle 17 February 1810). The Flushing view showed the recent attack by land and sea, with the town in flames.

A diagram of the Leicester Square Panorama building here

Some background to Barker and the Panorama in The Stage 17 November 1988

These were all the rage in the 19th century, spectacular artefacts made possible by a Scottish artist Robert Barker who discovered a means of presenting an all-embracing view, by painting on the inside of an enormous cylinder and placing the spectator at its centre.

It was a technical problem of considerable complexity. In a picture painted round a circumference of 360 degrees, straight lines had to be curved, and curved lines straightened. Distances called for finely graduated brush- work to create the illusion of depth and perspective had to be observed.

Barker called the picture a Panorama, patented the process in 1787 and first exhibited "Mr Baker's Interesting and novel view of the City and Castle of Edinburgh and the whole adjacent and surrounding Country" in 1788 exactly 200 years ago.

In 1789, Barker's Panorama came to London. It was so successful the artist had it permanently housed in a vast brick rotunda he built for it near Leicester Square in 1793. There it continued to draw the town at the moderate entrance fee of one shilling.

Christchurch, Dorset (formerly Hampshire), England. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_Priory 3D seagull view - www.google.com/maps/@50.7306939,-1.7731867,96a,35y,329.97...

Looks like it was about 14:20 is another photo - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000523326

beachcomber australia Thank you. Apparently it has 13 bells in the Priory. No sleeping in on Sundays for the residents of the house... And a Miraculous Beam!

National Library of Ireland on The Commons 🔔 The Bells! The Bells! 🎶 🔔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLnh90BFXs0

From a different angle earth.app.goo.gl/?apn=com.google.earth&isi=293622097&...

Getty Images have a different photo of a tricolour protest in Trafalgar Square, dated 1922 The protest was for the release of Irish prisoners www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/flag-bearers-hold-th...

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If Feb 1922 (though fashion may be more recent) . . . ."a monster demonstration for the purpose of demanding the release of all Irish political prisioners at present in English jails including the Connaught Rangers was held on Sunday under the auspices of the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain. speeches were delivered from three platforms and the Tricolour was displayed around the monument . . . . Art O'Brien . . . . Sean Wickham . . . ." (Weekly Freeman Sat. 18 Feb 1922 Pg. 5)

[Aside] I never knew this: "The column also had a symbolic importance to Adolf Hitler. If Hitler's plan to invade Britain, Operation Sea Lion, had been successful, he planned to move it to Berlin." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%27s_Column

From Trove: A large Irish demonstration in Trafalgar-square demanded the release of 180 Irish prisoners who ara still in gaol, on the ground that their retention was at variance with the spirit of the Irish agreement. Article from The Advocate, Melbourne, 16 Feb 1922, in a longer article about Irish News. Doesn't give the date of the protest.