=== *23 1852-56: Pin-fire Guns in UK; Part 1 - Hodges & Lang FOOTNOTES ====

*23 1854-56: Pin-Fire Guns in UK Part 1; Hodges & Lang.

. . . . .*23a Lefaucheaux center-break, pin-fire at Crystal Palace, 1851
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. . . . .*23b E.C. Hodges
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. . . . .*23c 7, Haymarket Street:
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. . . . .*23d Lang Shooting Gallery: - And does that layout....casual observers sitting and standing in front of the shooter....not look distinctly unsafe?
. . . . . . . . . .original print
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. . . . . . . . . .Today’s Haymarket Hotel exterior – location of Lang’s Shooting Gallery
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. . . . . . . . . .Today’s Haymarket Hotel, “The Shooting Gallery” room
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. . . . . . . . . .Opened again in 1859 – 14 Sep 1859 Bell's Life reference to Lang's shooting gallery. "Adjoining" was clearly a stretch.
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. . . . . . . . . .25 Jul 1830, "Bell's Life" - earliest report of Lang's shooting gallery:
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. . . . .*23e 22 Cockspur Street, where Lang was located from 1852-1874 and where the British center-break pin-fire was born. Did Lang use Liège-made barrels and lumps?
. . . . . . . . . .22 Cockspur Street
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. . . . . . . . . .Map
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