Article on the life and work of architect Charles Harrison Townsend with reference to (and images of) his work at the Horniman Museum.
Article headed 'Arts and Crafts Architecture and the 1890s' about Charles Harrison Townsend
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Whitsuntide Holidays. The Horniman Museum
35mm slide: People fetching water from the river
Photograph of 'Capstan section of the machine shop'
Slide showing the process of silk string manufacture by Rihzhon Khojakhanov and his family
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