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Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners filing into the entrance to the west Dining Hall, right, beating the tattoo at sunset. Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.

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Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners filing into the entrance to the west Dining Hall, right, beating the tattoo at sunset. Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.