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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North of the Thames are the _High Level_, the _Middle Level_, the _Low
Level_, and the _Western District Sewers_, together with an _Outfall_ at
Barking Creek. The High Level drains Hampstead, Highgate, Kentish Town,
Highbury, Stoke Newington, Hackney, and passes under Victoria Park to Old
Ford; its length is about 9 miles. The Middle Level runs by way of
Kensal Green, Kensington Park, Notting Hill, Bayswater, Oxford Street,
and so under a number of minor streets, to Old Ford, being about 12 miles
long. The Low Level commences near Pimlico, and passes along under the
Thames embankment to Blackfriars, whence it is to go through the City and
Whitechapel to West Ham. The Western District Sewers drain Acton,
Hammersmith, Fulham, Chelsea, &c., on a plan different from that of the
main drainage in other localities. The Outfall, an immense work 6 miles
long, continues the Upper and Middle Level Sewers from Old Ford to West
Ham, and all the three sewers thence to Barking Creek, where stupendous
arrangements are made for conducting the flow of the sewage into the
Thames. The drainage south of the Thames comprises a _High Level Sewer_,
a _Low Level Sewer_, and an _Outflow_. The High Level drains Clapham,
Brixton, Streatham, Dulwich, Camberwell, &c.; the Low Level keeps nearer
the Thames, by Wandsworth, Battersea, Vauxhall, Lambeth, Southwark,
Bermondsey, and Rotherhithe, to Deptford; while the Outfall continues
both these lines of sewers through Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, and
across Plumstead Marshes to Crossness Point, where the works are situated
for conveying the sewage into the river.
INDEX
Abney Park Cemetery, 61
Achilles’s Statue, 127
Adelphi Theatre, 28, 121
Admiralty, 30, 46
Admission to Places of Interest, 178
Albert Suspension Bridge, 102
Aldermen, 85
Aldgate, 18
Aldgate High Street, 18
Alexandra Park, 167
Alhambra, 124
Amusements, 125
Apothecaries’ Hall, 97
Apsley House, 38, 39
Armouries, Tower, 78
Arsenal, Woolwich, 160
Art Exhibitions, 70
Artillery Ground, 32
Arundel Street, 27
Astley’s Amphith., 123
Austin Friars, 17
* * * * *
Bank of England, 15, 93
Bank of London, 17
Banks, 94
Baptist College, 72
Barclay & Perkins’s, 113
Barnes, 145
Barnet, 162
Baths, 180
Battersea, 104, 144
— Bridge, 104
— Park, 133
Bazaars, 31, 113
Belgrave Square, 31
Berkeley Square, 31
Bethnal Green, 19
Bethnal Green Cemetery, 61
Bethnal G. Museum, 66
Billingsgate, 18, 111
Birdcage Walk, 126
Bishopsgate Street, 18
Blackfriars’ Bridge, 22, 103
Blackheath, 163
Blackwall, 159
— Railway, 141
Blue Coat School, 73
Board of Trade Office, 47
Boat-races, 145
Bolt Court, 25
Bond Street, 31
Book-trade, 115
Botanical Gardens, 134
Bow Church, 56
Bow Lane, 19
Bread Street, 19
Breweries, 113
Bridges, 102
Bridgewater Gallery, 40
— House, 40
Brighton Railway, 140
Britannia Theatre, 122
British Institution, 70
— Museum, 62
Broad Street, 17
Bromley, 163
Brooke Street, 24
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