Bumble bee clinging to a grass flower in the early morning, having used the spot to stay overnight.
The spike, or officially the Casual Ward, was the, unusally extremely unpleasant, short-term accommodation. Vagrants with no other options could get, usually, a single night in a squalid communal room and an unappetising meal in exchange for a set amount of soul-destroying work such as breaking rocks or picking oakum.
