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Victor Prout's picture showing the Oxford College's rowing club barges moored along the river.<br />
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'Old man river, he just keeps rollin' - A remarkable collection of panoramic photographs of the Thames taken 160 years ago have emerged for auction, and they reveal how little the famous old river has changed in the last century and a half.<br />
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They follow the river from London to Oxford in 40 photographs providing a fascinating insight into how the famous river looked in the mid-19th century.<br />
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Londoner Victor Prout started photographing the Thames in 1857 using a camera which would produce wide-vision images because of a lens that swung round and 'scanned' sections of the picture.<br />
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This rare complete copy of the first edition of Prout's pioneering panoramics has emerged for auction and is tipped to sell for &pound;12,000 when they go under the hammer at Bonhams on March 1.