'Wha-Tapoua Roo' [Common brushtail possum] Finish:Rolled Detective Sergeant George Carter (left

Detective Sergeant George Carter (left played by Dennis Waterman) and Detective Inspector John 'Jack' Regan (right played by John Thaw) seen here during rehearsals before a take on the set of the Euston Films TV series The Sweeney

View with adjacent buildings including a bookseller's and stationers

whilst in front of them a fifer

'A Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year in London'

horses and carriages in Threadneedle Street

'Wha-Tapoua Roo' [Common brushtail possum] Finish:Rolled Detective Sergeant George Carter (leftZoological study of the Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), the Australian marsupial, shown in an arboreal setting. Plate 56 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'This animal is about the size of a Racoon, is of a dark grey colour on the back, rather lighter on the sides, which terminates in a rich brown on the belly.' The plate is inscribed: 'Mortimer