Transcribed from the 1873 William Collins, Sons and Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Cover of book] [Picture: Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall, Crimean and Canning Monuments. Penitentiary, Vauxhall Bridge, Lambeth Suspension Bridge, Lambeth Place, and Bethlehem Hospital in the distance] COLLINS’ ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO LONDON AND NEIGHBOURHOOD: BEING A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF THE CHIEF PLACES OF INTEREST IN THE METROPOLIS, AND THE BEST MODES OF OBTAINING ACCESS TO THEM: WITH INFORMATION RELATING TO RAILWAYS, OMNIBUSES, STEAMERS, &c. * * * * * With fifty-eight Illustrations by Sargent and others, AND A CLUE-MAP BY BARTHOLOMEW. * * * * * LONDON: WILLIAM COLLINS, SONS, AND COMPANY, 17 WARWICK SQUARE, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1873. PREFACE. IN this work an attempt is made to furnish Strangers with a handy and useful Guide to the chief objects of interest in the Metropolis and its Environs: comprising also much that will be interesting to permanent Residents. After a few pages of General Description, the various Buildings and other places of attraction are treated in convenient groups or sections, according to their nature. Short Excursions from the Metropolis are then noticed. Tables, lists, and serviceable information concerning railways, tramways, omnibuses, cabs, telegraphs, postal rules, and other special matters, follow these sections. An ALPHABETICAL INDEX at the end furnishes the means of easy reference. The information is brought down to the latest date, either in the Text or in the Appendix at the end. And the Clue-map has, in like manner, been filled in with the recently opened lines of Railway, &c., as well as with indications of the Railways sanctioned, but not yet completed. CONTENTS.