London in the 1830s
We shall probably never know whether Edwin Budding took his patent application for the lawnmower to the Home Office in Whitehall near to Parliament at Westminster. There are many cartoon illustrations in books often satirically shown of 19th Century life in London.
An engraving entitled "May - All Growing" by George Cruickshank, from The Comic Almanack, 1838.
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