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ABC/343
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Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places. The Southern Suburbs. Vol. 6
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- 1897 (Creation)
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1 volume
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British writer and compiler of reference works
ODNB Entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28462
ODNB Entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28462
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A Narrative about the Old and the New London, with its History, its People and its Places. It is Illustrated by numerous drawings, etchings and plans, concentrating mainly on the area of Westminster and the Southern Suburbs. Buildings and Places included: Kennington Common and Church; St. Thomas's Hospital; St. Saviour's, Southwark; Lambeth Palace; Old London Bridge with Shot Tower and St. Olave's Church, 1820; The Bridge-foot, Southwark, 1810; Priory of St. Mary Overy, 1700; Old Houses formerly in Bankside; Consistory Court, St. Saviour's Church, 1820; John Gover; Tomb of John Gower; Winchester House, 1660; Mrs. Thrale; Barclay's Brewery 1829; The Globe Theatre; Ben Jonson; Map of Southwark 1720; The Borough High Street 1825; Southwark Fair; The Mint, 1825; The King's Bench, 1830; The Marshalsea 1790; The Old 'Tabard' Inn; Geoffrey Chaucer; Old Inns in Southwark; Boar's Head Courtyard, 1820; The Old 'White Hart' Inn; St. Thomas's Hospital 1840; Guy's Hospital; Folly Ditch, Jacob's Island; The Great Fire at Cotton's Wharf, Tooley Street 1861; St. Olave's Church, 1820; Millpond Bridge 1826; Hall of the Southwark 'Train-Bands' 1813; Old Houses in London Street, Dockland 1810; Bermondsey Abbey 1790; St. Mary Magdalen's Church, Bermondsey 1809; Bridge and Turnpike in the Grange Road 1820; Garden Front of Jamaica House, 1826; Cherry Garden Street 1826; St. James's Church, Bermondsey; Rotherhithe Church 1750; Diving Bell used in Constructing the Thames Tunnel; Floating Dock, Deptford 1820; The Royal Dock, Deptford; Samuel Pepys; Peter the Great's House at Deptford; John Evelyn; Placentia or Ancient Royal Palace 1560; Old Conduit, Greenwich Park 1835; Old Palace of Greenwich 1630; Greenwich Hospital; The Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital; The Royal Naval School 1830; The Parish Church, Greenwich; The Duke of Norfolk's Almshouses in 1796; 'Crown and Sceptre' Inn; Lane leading into Ship Street, Greenwich; Houses round Greenwich Park; Flamsteed House; The Magnetic Clock, Greenwich Observatory; The Great Equatorial Telescope in the Dome, Greenwich Observatory; West Coombe 1794; The 'Green Man', Blackheath; Vanbrugh Castle; Charlton House 1845; Eltham Palace 1790; Lee Church 1795; The Licensed Victuallers' Asylum 1880; The Telegraph Tower in 1810; Newington Butts 1820; The Fishmonger's Almshouse 1850; Fountain in the Surrey Gardens; Old Newington Church 1866; The Music Hall, Surrey Gardens, 1858; Old Camberwell Church 1750; Bowyer House; Old Camberwell Mill; Old House in Camberwell Green; Dr. Lettsom's House, Grove Hill; Grove Lane, Camberwell; The 'Rosemary Branch' 1800; 'Heaton's Folly' 1804; Dr. Glennie's Academy, Dulwich Grove, 1820; Dulwich College 1790; Sydenham Wells, 1750; Crystal Palace 1852; Margaret Finch's Cottage, Norwood 1808; Lord Thurlow's House, Knight's Hill; Mrs. Thrale's House, Streatham; View of Clapham 1790; Old Clapham Church 1750; Views in Old stockwell; Kennington 1780; The Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common 1848; Tradescant's House, South Lambeth; The 'Horns' Tavern, Kennington 1820; The Freemasons' Charity School, St. George's Fields 1800; Old Sign of the 'Dog and Duck'; The Obelisk in St. George's Circus, 1874; Bethlehem Hospital; King Edward's School; Christ Church, Westminster Road; The Surrey Theatre; Rowland Hill's Chapel in 1814; Rotunda, Blackfriars Road 1820; South Side of the Thames; Searle's Boat-Yard 1830; The Pedlar and his Dog, from Lambeth Church; Old Windmills at Lambeth 1750; Old Views in Lambeth; The Old 'Coburg' Theatre 1820; Astley's Riding School 1770; Astley Theatre; Houses in Waterloo Bridge Road; View in the New Cut; Bishop Bonner's House 1780; Drug Mill of the Apothecaries' Company; The Chevalier d'Eon; St. Thomas's Hospital; Lambeth Palace; The Lollard's Tower, Lambeth Palace 1875; Old Whitehall Stairs; Lambeth Church 1825; The Old Manor House at Vauxhall 1800; The Old Village of Vauxhall; The Italian Walk, Vauxhall Gardens; Old Battersea Mill; York House 1790; Battersea Church, 1790; The Sub-tropical Gardens, Battersea Park; The Lake, Battersea Park; Wandsworth 1790; Lines of Rails at Clapham Junction; The Garratt Election; Putney House 1810; Lime Grove, Putney 1810; Fairfax House, Putney; Bowling-green House; In and About Putney; Essex House, Putney; Old Putney Bridge 1880; Fulham Church 1825; Holcrofts and the Priory, Fulham; Richardson's House at Parson's Green 1799; Peterborough House; Nell Gwynne's House; In and About Fulham; Ranelagh House; The 'Red Cow' Inn, Hammersmith 1860; The Convent, Hammersmith 1800; The River Front of Hammersmith, from Eyot at Chiswick to the Bridge 1800; Hammersmith Parish Church 1820; Brandenburgh House, 1815; Hammersmith in 1746; The Old 'Pack Horse' Inn, Turnham Green; Hammersmith Mall, 1800; Old Cottages on Back Common; Hogarth's House; Entrance to Chiswick; Chiswick House, 1763; Corney House 1760; Chiswick Mall, 1820.
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Loose spine. Loose covers. Loose and torn pages