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  • Belgravia.
  • Knightsbridge.
  • The Great Exhibition of 1851.
  • Pimlico.
  • Chelsea.
  • Chelsea (continued).
  • Chelsea (continued).-The Hospital, &c.
  • Chelsea (continued).-Cremorne Gardens, &c.
  • West Brompton, South Kensington Museum, &c.
  • The Old Court Suburb. --Kensington.
  • Kensington (continued).
  • Kensington Palace.
  • Kensington Gardens.
  • Holland House, and its Historical Associations.
  • Notting Hill and Bayswater.
  • Tyburn and Tyburnia.
  • Paddington.
  • Underground London: Its Railways, Subways, and Sewers.
  • Kilburn and St. John's Wood.
  • Marylebone, North: Its Historical Associations.
  • The Regent's Park: The Zoological Gardens, &c.
  • Primrose Hill and Chalk Farm.
  • Euston Road, Hampstead Road, and the Adjacent Neighbourhood.
  • Camden Town and Kentish Town.
  • St. Pancras.
  • Somers Town and Euston Square.
  • The Foundling Hospital and Neighbourhood.
  • Agar Town, and the Midland Railway.
  • Holloway.
  • Highgate.
  • Highgate (continued).
  • Highgate (continued).
  • Hornsey.
  • Hampstead.-Caen Wood and North End.
  • Hampstead (continued).-The Heath and the Upper Flask.
  • Hampstead (continued).-The Town.
  • Hampstead (continued).-Its Literary Associations, &c.
  • Hampstead (continued).-Rosslyn Hill, &c.
  • Hampstead (continued).-Belsize and Frognal.
  • The North-Eastern Suburbs.--Haggerston, Hackney, &c.
  • The North-Eastern Suburbs.-Hackney (continued).
  • Hoxton, Kingsland, Dalston, &c.
  • Stoke Newington.
  • Stoke Newington (continued), and Stamford Hill.
  • Tottenham.
  • North Tottenham, Edmonton, &c.
  • The Lea, Stratford-le-Bow, &c.
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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 5

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    Belgravia.

    Prefatory Remarks--The Building of the District--De Moret, and his Flying-machine--Nature of the Soil of Belgravia-- "Slender Billy" --The Spanish Monkey "Mukako" and Tom Cribb's Fighting Dogs--The Grosvenor Family--Enormous Rent-rolls--Belgravia and Bethnal Green compared--Lanesborough House--St. George's Hospital--Old "Tattersall's" --St. George's Place--Liston, the Comedian--Pope's School-days--The Alexandra Hotel--The Old Toll-gate at Hyde Park Corner--Grosvenor Place--The "Feathers" Tavern, and how George Prince of Wales was made an Odd Fellow there--Arabella Row--A Witty Lord Chancellor--The "Bag o‘ Nails" --The "Three Compasses" --Belgrave Square -- "Gentleman Jones" --Eccleston Street--Sir Francis Chantrey--St. Paul's Church, Wilton Place--The Pantechnicon--Halkin Street--Upper and Lower Belgrave Streets--Suicide of Lord Munster--Eaton Square--Chester Square--Ebury Street--Lowndes Square--Cadogan Place--William Wilberforce--The Locality in Former Times--

    ‘Tis hard to say-such space the city wins--
    Where country ends and where the town begins.
    Prolusiones Paulinae, 1876.

    Having, in the previous volume, completed our peregrination of what may be called the interior gyrus--the innermost circle--of the great metropolis, we may now venture on a somewhat wider journey afield, and roam over that portion of the next circle--but still


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