Tim's Peeps

Welcome to the Corona Virus Chronicles... Tim is now self-isolating, and presenting his videos directly from his apartment, via a web link. Paper Peepshow Views certainly date back to Victorian times. Made of heavy duty paper or thin cardboard, they unfold concertina style. There is a small hole at one end which you look through, and the picture you see inside has a number of depth planes, as each of the paper sheets has a different part of the picture printed on it. The first example is, coincidentally, from a company called 'Tim's telescopic Views'. No connection though! It was brought out in 1977 as a souvenir of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, here in the UK. One version was already constructed, the other one came as a kit, and you had to glue it together. Look inside the peep and you see the Coronation procession of 1952, with the royal coach travelling along The Mall, and Buckingham Palace in the background. Next, a modern reproduction of a Victorian peep that celebrated the Great Exhibition of 1851. This ran from May to October of that year, and was an enormous exhibition of culture and industry from around the world. It was one of the first World Fairs that became popular during the 19th Century, and was held in an enormous steel and glass structure, known as the Crystal Palace. Finally, from 2006, a peep made by the White Eagle Company of California, USA. It shows the rain forest and all kinds of animals that live there.