The Sunday Question mb-code LMG157859 National Discount Company's offices

National Discount Company's offices

From his pocket peeps a volume entitled Modest prints

Showing a view along Poultry and Princes Street

The Bank of England

Model Twiggy posing in the studio wearing a hat

The Sunday Question mb-code LMG157859 National Discount Company's offices'The Sunday Question', 1869. The drinking habits of the working classes was always a cause for concern amongst their social superiors. A number of attempts had been made to close public houses on Sundays and, in this cartoon, Punch shows a typical Sunday public house. A drunkard stands unsteadily at the bar and his wife has arrived to persuade him to come home. It was believed that many women turned to drink simply because they had to enter public