HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY By Sir WALTER BESANT and G. E. MITTON. The district to be treated in this volume includes a good many parishes—namely, St. Giles-in-the-Fields; St. George, Bloomsbury; St. George the Martyr; St Andrew, Holborn; Hatton Garden, Saffron Hill; besides the two famous Inns of Court, Lincoln’s and Gray’s, and the remaining buildings of …
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The Fascination of London – Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney
Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney – The Fascination of London by Geraldine Edith Mitton HAMMERSMITH The parish of Hammersmith is mentioned in Doomsday Book under the name of Hermoderwode, and in ancient deeds of the Exchequer as Hermoderworth. It is called Hamersmith in the Court Rolls of the beginning of Henry VII.’s reign. This is evidently …
The Fascination of London – Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater
Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater – The Fascination of London by Geraldine Edith Mitton Mayfair is at the present time the most fashionable part of London, so much so that the name has come to be a synonym for wealth or pride of birth. Yet it was not always so, as he who runs may read, …
The Fascination of London: Westminster
THE FASCINATION OF LONDON WESTMINSTER By Sir WALTER BESANT and G. E. MITTON. PART I SOUTH OF VICTORIA STREET. The word Westminster used in the title does not mean that city which has its boundaries stretching from Oxford Street to the river, from the Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens, to Temple Bar. A city which embraces …
The Fascination of Marylebone
The derivation of this name is simple. Lysons says: “The name of this place was anciently called Tiburn, from its situation near a small bourn or rivulet formerly called Aye-brook or Eye-brook, and now Tybourn Brook. When the site of the church was altered to another spot, near the same brook, it became St. Mary …
Curiosities of London
Curiosities of London: exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis; with nearly sixty years personal recollections by Timbs, John, 1801-1875 Publication date: 1867 Publisher London : J. C. Hotten The digitised edition was scanned by the University of California Libraries with sponsorship of MSN. The scanning process frequently fails to …
The Fascination of Clerkenwell and St Luke’s
This text was digitised from part of the “Fascination of London” series of books. Corrections will appear in due course. This text was digitised from part of the “Fascination of London” series of books. Corrections will appear in due course. PREFATORY NOTE A survey of London, a record of the greatest of all cities, …
The Fascination of Kensington
The Kensington District, by Geraldine Edith Mitton (First published 1903) Editor: Walter Besant Project Gutenberg THE KENSINGTON DISTRICT Herbert Railton HOLLAND HOUSE. The Fascination of London KENSINGTON BY G. E. MITTON Kensington When people speak of Kensington they generally mean a very small area lying north and south of the High Street; to this some …
London – South of the Thames
Preface London – South of the Thames by Sir Walter Besantt Chapter I Published in London by Adam & Charles Black, 1912 INDEX Abbeville Road, 249 Abbey Street, 57, 63, 144, 145 Abbey Wood, 305 Abershaw, Jerry, 106, 220, 222 Acorn Street, 134 Acre Lane, 170, 172, 173 Acre Wharf, 85 Addington Square, 132, 133 …
LCC Municipal Housing
Came across this 1937 pulication from the London County Council discussing LCC housing (plans) in the late 1930s. Adding it to the blog in the anticipation of Google coming around a searching it so it will be indexable in future.