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  • London. Westminster and the Western Suburbs.
  • Westminster--General Remarks.-Its Boundaries and History.
  • Butcher's Row.-Church of St. Clement Danes.
  • St. Clement Danes (continued):--The Law Courts.
  • St. Clement Danes (continued).--A Walk Round the Parish.
  • The Strand (Northern Tributaries).--Clement's Inn, New Inn, Lyon's Inn, etc.
  • The Strand (Northern Tributaries).-Drury Lane and Clare Markets.
  • Lincoln's Inn Fields.
  • Lincoln's Inn.
  • The Strand--Introductory and Historical.
  • The Strand:--Southern Tributaries.
  • The Strand:--Southern Tributaries (continued).
  • The Strand:--Southern Tributaries (continued).
  • The Strand:--Southern Tributaries (continued).
  • St. Mary-Le-Strand, The Maypole, &c.
  • Somerset House and King's College.
  • The Savoy.
  • The Strand:--Southern Tributaries (continued).
  • The Strand:--Northern Tributaries.
  • Charing Cross, The Railway Stations, and Old Hungerford Market.
  • Northumberland House and its Associations.
  • Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, &c.
  • St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.
  • Leicester Square and its Neighbourhood.
  • Soho.
  • Soho Square and its Neighbourhood.
  • St. Giles's in the Fields.
  • The Parish of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields (continued).
  • Drury Lane Theatre.
  • Covent Garden Theatre.
  • Covent Garden:--General Description.
  • Covent Garden (continued).
  • Covent Garden and its Neighbourhood (continued).
  • Covent Garden and its Neighbourhood (continued).
  • Covent Garden and its Neighbourhood (continued).
  • Covent Garden and its Neighbourhood (continued).
  • Covent Garden and its Neighbourhood (continued).
  • The River Thames.
  • The River Thames (continued).
  • The River THames (continued).
  • The Victoria Embankment.
  • Scotland Yard and the Metropolitan Police.
  • Whitehall.-Historical Remarks.
  • Whitehall and its Historical Associations (continued).
  • Whitehall and its Historical Associations (continued).
  • Whitehall.-The Buildings Described.
  • Whitehall, and its Historical Reminiscences (continued).
  • Whitehall:--Its Precinct, Gardens, &c.
  • Whitehall.-The Western Side.
  • Westminster Abbey--Its Early History.
  • Westminster Abbey.-Historical Ceremonies, &c.
  • Westminster Abbey.-A Survey of the Building.
  • Westminster Abbey.-The Choir, Transepts, &c.
  • Westminster Abbey.-The Chapels and Royal Tombs.
  • Westminster Abbey.-The Chapter House, Cloisters, Deanery, &c.
  • Westminster School.
  • Westminster School continued.
  • The Sanctuary and the Almonry.
  • The Royal Palace of Westminster.
  • The New Palace, Westminster.
  • Historical Reminiscences of the Houses of Parliament.
  • New Palace Yard and Westminster Hall.
  • Westminster Hall.--Incidents in its Past History.
  • The Law Courts and Old Palace Yard.
  • Westminster.-St. Margaret's Church.

    • 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 3

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    London.
    Westminster and the Western Suburbs.

    I began to study the map of London. --R. Southey.


    The Coronation Procession of Anne Boleyn To Westminster Abbey. (From A Drawing By David Roberts In The Tyrrell Collection.)

    In the first two volumes of this work we have dealt with the antiquities, the buried history, the traditions, the folk-lore, and the anecdotes of what we may term the eastern hemisphere of London, and if a like success can be achieved in our treatment of the corresponding world which lies west of the above-mentioned line, we shall have accomplished a task of no ordinary difficulty. With the world of Westminster and its surrounding districts--the "old court suburb" of Kensington, Chelsea, Marylebone, and the suburban regions of Lambeth, Bayswater, and Hampstead--we have henceforth to discharge the duty of a topographer and a chronicler in one, describing their features, "old and new," pointing out the spots which they contain rendered sacred by old traditions and haunted by ancient memories, and contrasting their present with their former state. In the performance of this pleasant task, we shall indeed be much wanting to our subject and to the public too, if we cannot wake up again into life and being the ghosts and the shadows of


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    London, New York, Cassell, Peter & Galpin [1872-78] .


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