The Waits Size:Standard: 6 x 4in His win in 1955 on

His win in 1955 on the Syracuse circuit in Sicily was Britain's first continental victory since Henry Seagrave won the San Sebastian Grand Prix 31 years earlier

with a wooden leg and a crutch under one arm

from Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock

and is sited near the remains of the original Globe on Bankside

after the Royal Exchange was destroyed by fire in 1838

The Waits Size:Standard: 6 x 4in His win in 1955 on'The Waits', 1885. The shadowy figures drinking a toast are Lord Salisbury (right) and Lord Randolph Churchill. Outside are the Liberal's Joseph Chamberlain, William Forster, Sir William Harcourt and their leader, William Gladstone. The recent General Election had left the Conservatives with a minority government but they had decided to retain office. However, the Liberals are waiting. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 26, 1885.