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  • London as it was and as it is.
  • Roman London.
  • Temple Bar.
  • Fleet Street--General Introduction.
  • Fleet Street (continued).
  • Fleet Street (continued).
  • Fleet Street (Northern Tributaries--Shire Lane and Bell Yard).
  • Fleet Street (Northern Tributaries--Chancery Lane).
  • Fleet Street (Northern Tributaries--continued).
  • Fleet Street (Tributaries--Crane Court, Johnson's Court, Bolt Court).
  • Fleet Street Tributaries.
  • Fleet Street Tributaries--Shoe lane.
  • Fleet Street Tributaries--South.
  • The Temple.--General Introduction.
  • The Temple Church and Precinct.
  • The Temple (continued).
  • The Temple (continued)
  • Whitefriars.
  • Blackfriars.
  • Ludgate Hill.
  • St. Paul's.
  • St. Paul's (Continued).
  • St. Paul's Churchyard.
  • Paternoster Row.
  • Baynard's Castle, Doctors' Commons, And Heralds' College.
  • Heralds' College.
  • Cheapside-Introductory And Historical.
  • Cheapside Shows And Pageants.
  • Cheapside: Central.
  • Cheapside Tributaries--South.
  • Cheapside Tributaries, North.
  • Cheapside Tributaries, North:--Wood Street.
  • Cheapside Tributaries, North (Continued).
  • Guildhall.
  • The Lord Mayors Of London.
  • The Lord Mayors Of London (Continued).
  • The Poultry.
  • Old Jewry.
  • The Mansion House.
  • Saxon London.
  • The Bank of England.
  • The Stock Exchange
  • The Royal Exchange.
  • The Royal Exchange (cont.)
  • Neighbourhood Of The Bank:-Lothbury.
  • Throgmorton Street.--The Drapers' Company.
  • Bartholomew Lane And Lombard Street.
  • Threadneedle Street.
  • Cannon Street.
  • Cannon Street Tributaries And Eastcheap.
  • The Monument And Its Neighbourhood.
  • Chaucer's London.
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    Walter Thornbury, Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Volume 1

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    [p. 1]

    London as it was and as it is.


    A Waterman in Doggett's Coat and Badge.


    Title Page

    Writing the history of a vast city like London is like writing a history of the ocean--the area is so vast, its inhabitants are so multifarious, the treasures that lie in its depths so countless. What aspect of the great chameleon city shall one select? for, as Boswell, with more than his usual sense, once remarked, "London is to the politician merely a seat of government, to the grazier a cattle market, to the merchant a huge exchange, to the dramatic enthusiast a congeries of theatres, to the man of pleasure an assemblage of taverns." If we follow one path alone, we must neglect other roads equally important; let us, then, consider the metropolis as a whole, for, as Johnson's friend well says, "the intellectual man is struck with London as comprehending the whole of human life in all its variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible." In histories, in biographies, in scientific records, and in chronicles of the past, however humble, let us gather materials for a record of the great and the wise, the base and the noble, the odd and the witty, who have inhabited London and left their names upon its walls. Wherever the glimmer of the cross of St. Paul's can be seen, we shall wander from street to alley, from alley to street, noting almost every event of interest that has taken place there since London became a city.


    This text is based on the following book(s):
    London, New York, Cassell, Peter & Galpin [1872-78] .


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