Cadets of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Kent mb-artist Charles_Burton A knife grinder at work

A knife grinder at work

With figures by the Royal Greenwich Observatory on the left

looking south east from the Middlesex bank with Westminster Bridge in the foreground

The woman on the right is wearing a much plainer dress but it still has the full hooped skirt and tight bodice

View of a tile kiln near Gray's Inn Lane (now Gray's Inn Road)

Cadets of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Kent mb-artist Charles_Burton A knife grinder at workCadets of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Kent, 1851. Scene showing cadets preparing to leave the cadet barracks in the Warren, to pass the summer vacation with their friends. The Royal Military Academy at Woolwich was established in 1741 for the training of officers of the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery. It closed in 1939.