The Unparalleled feat of Monsr. Ducrow in the Character of the Wild Indian Hunter on two rapid coursers in the Circle at the Royal Amphitheatre 19th century 64.6/5 A Chapel Street Market eel

A Chapel Street Market eel stall

rockers would congregate at this cafe and others to mend their bikes

Peter Ackroyd has a genius for digging out the most surprising and entertaining details

Bikers would put on a jukebox record and race each other to a chosen place and back before the record ended

John Avery photographed the wreckage immediately after the explosion and throughout the reconstruction

The Unparalleled feat of Monsr. Ducrow in the Character of the Wild Indian Hunter on two rapid coursers in the Circle at the Royal Amphitheatre 19th century 64.6/5 A Chapel Street Market eelRoyal Amphitheatre at Dane Street, High Holborn. Coloured etching. Interior view featuring ' the unparalleled feat of M. Ducrow in the Character of the Wild Indian Hunter on two rapid coursers in the Circle at the Royal Amphitheatre'.