The People of Gibraltar

1833 - Gibraltar in the News - 1870 - 1879

HMS Triumph and HMS Swiftsure escorting the Spanish ships, Vittoria and Almanza into Gibraltar (Unknown - 1870)

The Vittoria and Almanza supported the liberal "Intransigentes" during the turbulent political turmoil in Spain during the late 19th century.

1870 - Unknown periodical

The above sketch is one of the first in any periodical that I have seen to show the world what some of the local characters wandering about the town looked like - Well dressed ladies, a large group of Arab traders, several military men including a very drunken sailor. Engineer Lane lies more or less parallel and just to the east of Main Street. The captions - El estrecho and "En España suggests that the sketch may have been done by either a Spaniard.

View over the isthmus towards Spain (1871 - Unknown French publication)

1871 - The Graphic

Torre de los Adalides (1871 - Unknown)

1874 - Sketches by an officer on his way to Gibraltar

1875

1875 - The Graphic

The caption for No. 5 is misleading - The Club House Hotel was not new - it had been in business since 1839. It was now owned by Pablo Larios a Gibraltarian who had married a Spanish noblewoman and owned impressive chunks of property in the Campo de Gibraltar. Larios had generously put his own private home at the disposal of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught - Queen Victoria's third son - when he joined the Garrison's General Staff during a short stay on the Rock. Despite the shortness of his stay years after he had left the Rock, the building became known as Connaught House.