Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and PresentMiller, Thomas
Philosophy
Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present
Miller, Thomas
London (England) -- Description and travel
LONDON DOCKS--Emigrants--Canterbury colonists--London
sempstresses--Emigration.....126
CHAPTER VII.
WHITECHAPEL--Row of butchers' shops--Articles sold in them--Rag
Fair--Church of St. Catherine Cree--Crosby Hall--Four Swans'
Inn.....141
CHAPTER VIII.
GUILDHALL--Lord Mayor's Banquet--Lord Mayor's Show--Description
of, in time of Charles II.--Duties of the Lord Mayor--Gog and
Magog--The Sheriff's Court--Monuments in Guildhall--St. Giles's,
Cripplegate.....155
CHAPTER IX.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL--Foundation of, by Edward VI.--Description of supper
in--Description of Christ's Hospital as it was two hundred years
ago--Christ's Church.....166
CHAPTER X.
SMITHFIELD MARKET--Drovers and their dogs--Smithfield
butchers--Countrymen in Smithfield.....174
CHAPTER XI.
NEWGATE--Scenes at executions.....183
CHAPTER XII.
FLEET STREET--Whitefriars--St. Bride's Church--Description of London
Lodging-houses--St. Dunstan's Church--the Cock Tavern.....191
CHAPTER XIII.
CHURCH OF ST. CLEMENT'S DANES--The Strand May-pole--Church of
St. Mary-le-Strand--Somerset House--Church of the Savoy--The
Adelphi--Arches at the Adelphi--Covent-Garden Market--Church of St.
Paul's, Covent Garden.....201
CHAPTER XIV.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY--Monuments--Horse-Guards--St. James's Park--Hyde
Park--Regent's Park--New Parks.....217
CHAPTER XV.
ST. GILES'S--The Rookery--Church of St. Giles's--Queen Anne's
Bath.....229
CHAPTER XVI.
LONDON FOG.....243
CHAPTER XVII.
THE OLD BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK--St. James's Church--Tabard Inn.....249
CHAPTER XVIII.
STREET AMUSEMENTS--Punch and Judy--Organ-boys and monkeys--Fat
boys--Tumblers--Stilt-dancers--Jack-in-the-green--Guy Fawkes.....254
CHAPTER XIX.
SPRING-TIME IN LONDON.....262
CHAPTER XX.
LONDON CEMETERIES--Ancient mode of burying the dead--Intramural
interments--Ravages of the cholera in 1849.....269
CHAPTER XXI.
GREENWICH PARK--Old pensioners--Telescopes--Gipsies--Blackheath.....283
CHAPTER XXII.
HOLIDAYS OF THE LONDON POOR.....293
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LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
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PAGE
Frontispiece.
Vignette in Title.
Roman Hypocaust, Thames-street 22
Roman Remains, found in Thames-street 23
St. Paul's Cathedral.--Charity Children's Anniversary Festival 31
Prerogative Court.--Doctors' Commons 39
Saracen's Head, Friday-street 48
Roman Lamp 49
Gerard the Giant 50
Gerard's Hall Crypt 52
Bow Church, Cheapside 54
St. Stephen's, Walbrook 61
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