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Print, uncoloured engraving, The Court Houses, Carlisle,
and Triumphal Arch, published by the Illustrated London
News, 11 August 1855.
Page 181; illustrating a report of a Meeting of the Royal
Agricultural Society of England.
The accompanying text begins:-
'THE seventeenth annual meeting of this society, which was
held in Carlisle this year, commenced on Thursday, the 19th
ult.; but the great influx of visitors did not begin till
the following Wednesday. The preparations made for the
occasion were of the usual description.
'On entering Carlisle by any of the railway stations, the
visitor's attention was attracted by triumphal arches of
evergreens and flowers thrown acropss the roads in honour of
the meeting of the Agricultural Society; and a number of the
houses were appropriately decorated with flags, wreaths. and
evergreens, in great profusion. ...'
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