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.Anonymous
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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.
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London (England) -- Guidebooks
The number of Shilling Exhibitions open in London is at all times very
large, but more especially in the summer months. The first page of the
_Times_ contains advertisements relating to the whole of them; while the
penny papers contain a considerable number. As the list varies from time
to time, we cannot print it here; but the following are the chief places
where the exhibitions or entertainments are held. (Theatres and Music
Halls are not included; because the terms of admission vary to different
parts of those buildings. We may here add that _Burford’s_ and the
_Colosseum_ have long been closed.)—_Cremorne Gardens_, Chelsea.—_Crystal
Palace_, Sydenham, (2s. 6d. on Saturday, 1s. on other days.)—_Egyptian
Hall_, Piccadilly, (sometimes two or three exhibitions at once, in
different parts of the building.)—_Gallery of Illustration_, Regent
Street.—Various temporary exhibitions in large rooms situated in the
Haymarket, Pall Mall, Regent Street, Piccadilly, and Bond
Street.—_Picture Exhibitions_, (such as the _Royal Academy_, the _British
Institution_, the _Society of British Artists_, two _Water Colour
Societies_, &c.)—_Polytechnic Institution_, Regent Street.—_Polygraphic
Hall_, Strand.—_Tussaud’s Waxwork_, Baker Street Bazaar.—_Zoological
Gardens_, (sixpence on Mondays.)
Admit by Introduction.
Among the places to which admission may be obtained by personal
introduction, or by letter, the following may be named:—_Antiquarian
Society’s Museum_, Somerset House.—_Armourer’s Museum_, (ancient armour,)
81 Coleman Street.—_Asiatic Society’s Museum_, 5 New Burlington
Street.—_Bank of England Museum_, (collection of coins.)—_Botanical
Society’s Gardens and Museum_, Regent’s Park.—_College of Surgeons’
Museum_, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.—_Guildhall Museum_, (old London
antiquities.)—_Linnæan Society’s Museum_, Burlington House.—_Mint_,
(process of coining,) Tower Hill.—_Missionary Museum_, (idols, rude
implements, &c.,) Bloomfield Street, Finsbury.—_Naval Museum_, (formerly,
now at South Kensington.)—_Private Picture Galleries_, (several.)—_Royal
Institution Museum_, Albemarle Street.—_Trinity House Museum_, (models of
lighthouses, &c.,) Tower Hill.—_United Service Museum_, Scotland
Yard.—_Woolwich Arsenal_.
_N.B._—These lists are subject to constant change.
PRINCIPAL PUBLIC AND TURKISH BATHS.
(Those printed in _italics_ are public baths, established rather for the
benefit of the working and middle classes, than for the sake of profit.
At most of them a third-class cold bath can be obtained for 1d.; from
which minimum the prices rise to about 6d. or 8d. Many of the so-called
_Turkish_ baths are ordinary baths in which the arrangements for the
Turkish or Oriental system have recently been introduced. There are also
a few _Medicated Baths_, kept by medical practitioners for the use of
invalids.)
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