Holborn and BloomsburyA. & C. Black, 1903 - 106 sider |
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... century as a country road between fields , though , strangely enough , it is recorded that it was paved in 1417 , a very ancient date . Malcolm in 1803 calls it " an irregular long street , narrow and inconvenient , at the north end of ...
... century as a country road between fields , though , strangely enough , it is recorded that it was paved in 1417 , a very ancient date . Malcolm in 1803 calls it " an irregular long street , narrow and inconvenient , at the north end of ...
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... century was a byword for all that was squalid and filthy . Its rookeries and slums are thus described in a newspaper cutting of 1845 : " All around are poverty and wretchedness ; the streets and alleys are rank with the filth of half a ...
... century was a byword for all that was squalid and filthy . Its rookeries and slums are thus described in a newspaper cutting of 1845 : " All around are poverty and wretchedness ; the streets and alleys are rank with the filth of half a ...
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... centuries later King Henry VIII . desired the lands and possessions of St. Giles's , and with him to desire was to acquire . The hospital was thus shorn of the greater part of its wealth , retaining only the church ( not the manor ) at ...
... centuries later King Henry VIII . desired the lands and possessions of St. Giles's , and with him to desire was to acquire . The hospital was thus shorn of the greater part of its wealth , retaining only the church ( not the manor ) at ...
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... centuries , until New Oxford Street was made . The procession from Newgate to Tyburn used to pass along Broad Street , and halt at the great gate of the hospital , in order that the condemned man might take his last draught of ale on ...
... centuries , until New Oxford Street was made . The procession from Newgate to Tyburn used to pass along Broad Street , and halt at the great gate of the hospital , in order that the condemned man might take his last draught of ale on ...
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... haunt of all that was vicious and bad . Ter- rible accounts of the overcrowding and consequent immorality come down to us from the newspaper echoes of the earlier part of the nineteenth century . 23 OF LONDON BLOOMSBURY.
... haunt of all that was vicious and bad . Ter- rible accounts of the overcrowding and consequent immorality come down to us from the newspaper echoes of the earlier part of the nineteenth century . 23 OF LONDON BLOOMSBURY.
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alleys ancient Bedford Square BESANT and G. E. brick Broad Street built called Chancery Lane chapel Church of St churchyard corner Dickens district Drury Lane Duchess of Dudley Duke Dyott Street east side eighteenth century Ely Place Farringdon Fascination of London Fetter Lane Fleet formerly G. E. MITTON gate George the Martyr Giles Giles-in-the-Fields Giles's Gothic Gray's Inn Road ground hall handsome Hatton Garden Henry High Holborn HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY hospital inhabited Inigo Jones Inn of Chancery John King lepers Lincoln's Inn Fields lived Lord manor mentioned Montague House Museum north end north side Palace parish of St Portpool Portpool Lane present public-house Queen Street rebuilt Red Lion reign residence restored Saffron Hill says Shaftesbury Avenue Shoe Lane Sir Thomas Sir WALTER BESANT south side Southampton stands Staple Inn stood Strype tavern Tottenham Court Road tower Tyburn wall wards west side Yard
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Side 24 - And to be grave exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish and an aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel,
Side 89 - We were almost out of hope, when an honest man, who was at work, directed us to the next ground, adjoining to a pond. There we found what we sought, about three-quarters of a mile north of Montague House, and 500 yards east of Tottenham Court Road. The steps are of the size of a large human foot, about three inches deep, and lie nearly from north-east to south-west. We counted only seventy-six ; but we were not exact in counting. The place where one or both the brothers are supposed to have fallen...
Side 30 - Cross not with venturous step ; there oft is found The lurking thief, who, while the daylight shone, Made the walls echo with his begging tone : That crutch, which late compassion mov'd, shall wound Thy bleeding head, and fell thee to the ground. Though thou art tempted by the linkman's call, Yet trust him not along the lonely wall ; In the mid-way he'll quench the flaming brand, And share the booty with the pilfering band, Still keep the public streets where oily rays Shot from the crystal lamp...
Side 89 - ... of the size of a large human foot, about three inches deep, and lie nearly from northeast to south-west. We counted only seventy-six ; but we were not exact in counting. The place where one or both the brothers are supposed to have fallen, is still bare of grass. The labourer also showed us the bank where (the tradition is) the wretched woman sat to see the combat.
Side 48 - There were then few hackneycoaches, and we got both into one sedan-chair. Turning out of Fleet Street into Fetter Lane, there was a sort of contest, between our chairmen and some persons who were coming up Fleet Street, whether they should first pass Fleet Street, or we in our chair first get out of Fleet Street into Fetter Lane. In the struggle, the sedan-chair was overset with us in it.
Side 24 - To Westminster; in the way meeting many milkmaids with their garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them ; and saw pretty Nelly standing at her lodgings' door in Drurylane in her smock-sleeves and bodice, looking upon one ; she seemed a mighty pretty creature."— Pepys.
Side 89 - We sought for near half an hour in vain. We could find no steps at all within a quarter of a mile, no, nor half a mile, north of Montague House. We were almost out of hope, when an honest man who was at work directed us to the next ground, adjoining to a pond. There we found what we sought...
Side 4 - We took one coach, two coachmen, and four horses, And merrily from London made our courses, We wheel'd the top of the heavy hill call'd Holborn, (Up which hath been full many a sinful soul borne,) And so along we jolted past St.
Side 21 - I went also to see the building beginning near St. Giles's, where seven streets make a star from a Doric pillar placed in the middle of a circular area ; said to be built by Mr.
Side 89 - We could find no steps at all, within a quarter of a mile, no nor half a mile, of Montague House. We were almost out of hope, when an honest man who was at work directed us to the next ground adjoining to a pond. There we found what we sought, about three quarters of a mile north of Montague House, and about 500 yards east of Tottenham Court Road.