This isn't your cheap, shabby, modern-day, oil-for-blood imperialism. That there is some good-old-fashioned, serious, top-end, Pax Britannica, Workshop o' the World, Kiss Me On the Lips, I Am Your Empire Imperialism.

Ruth Mayer remarks:
Bruce
Just in case you didn't know. Your London image at Selfridge's, is 'The Queen of Time Clock' by sculptor Gilbert Bayes.
More info about him at:
http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/bayes/index.html
Regards
Ruth Marler
www.craftypeople.blogspot.com