Weather and events mark busy Easter holiday across London
Good Friday brought poor conditions with heavy rain and cold wind, while crowds still gathered at venues like the Crystal Palace and Brighton Aquarium. Easter Monday saw crowded metropolitan lines and large footfalls at museums and the Zoological Gardens, with notable public gatherings and a transit of Venus plan outlined for Greenwich observations. The obituary notes the death of John Collier of Leicester, aged eighty two, a longtime alderman and church deacon.
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Crystal Palace
Brighton
Aquarium
Greenwich
Hampton Court
Epping Forest
London
Thames
British Museum
South Kensington
Zoological Gardens
Brighton Aquarium
Wimbledon
Prince Edward of
Saxe-Weimar
Stephenson
C.B
Venus
the Times
Astronomer-Royal
Honolulu
Rodriguez Island
Mauritius
Christmas Harbour
Kerguelen Land
Christchurch
New Zealand
Alexandria
France
Germany
America
Russia
Alderman Collier
Leicester
John Collier
Southgate Street
Collier
Kettering
Northamptonshire
Andrew Fuller
Fuller
John Keen Hall
Hall
Robert Hall
J. P. Mursell
Anti-State Church Society
Town Hall
Royal Maundy Gifts And Public Affairs Near London
The Queen distributed the Royal Maundy in Whitehall Chapel to fifty five aged men and fifty five aged women with over 1,000 relieved. The Queen attended services at Whippingham and Osborne. the Prince and Princess of Wales are at Sandringham. Disraeli declines Essex dinner. Gladstone leaves for Hawarden. Public events include a Wimbledon Belgian volunteer presence and Hyde Park labor protest. A river steamer sank near London Bridge. passengers were saved.
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Whitehall Chapel
Whippingham Church
Osborne
George Prothero
Prince and Princess of Wales
Sandringham
Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh
Earl Granville
Paris
Mr. Disraeli
Chelmsford
Essex
Marquis of Salisbury
Mansion House
Merlin
Woolwich Company
London Bridge
Rowcliffe
Tiverton
Lord Palmerston
John O'Leary
W. H. Smith
London
Auberon Herbert
Lymington
Hants
Crewkerne
Somerset
Evelyn Ashley
Baillie Cochrane
Isle of Wight
Albert Grant
Kidderminster
Renfrewshire
Edinburgh
Mure
Liverpool
Victoria Nyanza
Touquet
Boulogne
Good
Disraeli
John Hales
International Society
Hackney
Newman
Brunswick Place
Hoxton
the Thames
Co-operative Societies of
Great Britain and Ireland
Halifax
Thomas Brassey
Tite
J. P. Gassiot
Corporation of the Royal College of Physicians
Cockburn
Gill
Judas Iscariot
United Kingdom
England
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
British Isles
Livingstone
Southampton
Westminster Abbey
Henry Stanley
New York Herald
Glasgow
Albert Hall
United Bands
Coldstreams, Grenadiers
Horse Guards
Charles
Dan
Fred
Godfrey