Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood Being a Concise Description of the Chief Places of Interest in the Metropolis, and the Best Modes of Obtaining Access to Them: with Information Relating to Railways, Omnibuses, Steamers, &c.

The seven radii of which we have spoken may be thus briefly described, as a preliminary guide to visitors: 1. Leaving this wonderfully-busy centre by the north, with the Poultry...

St. James’s Park.—This is so called from St. James’s Palace, which partly bounds it on the north. Originally these grounds were a marshy waste, which was drained and otherwise i...

_West London Railway_ (now better known as the _West London Extension Railway_) can hardly be said to have an independent commercial existence. It was an old and unsuccessful af...

Westminster Hall.—Although now made, in a most ingenious manner, to form part of the sumptuous edifice just described, _Westminster Hall_ is really a distinct building. It was t...

Returning to Charing Cross, the stranger may pursue his tour through Cockspur Street to Pall Mall, and thence proceed up Regent Street. As he enters this new line of route, he w...

General Poet Office.—This large building, at the corner of Cheapside and St. Martin’s-le-Grand, was finished in 1829, from the designs of Sir Robert Smirke. It is in the Ionic s...

Deptford.—This was once of some importance as a shipbuilding place, a dockyard having been established here ever since the time of Henry VIII.; but the government establishments...

Bank of England.—This large establishment is situated north of the Royal Exchange; the narrow thoroughfare between being _Threadneedle Street_, in which is the principal front....

Steam-boat Piers.—If you wish to go eastward of London Bridge, on the north side of the river, you will find steam-boats at London Bridge to take you to Thames Tunnel Pier, Lime...

Catholic, Dissenting, and Jewish Places of Worship.—It is almost impossible to give an exact enumeration of the places of worship in London, seeing that so many new ones are in...

Colleges.—The two chief colleges in London are connected with the _London University_. This University is a body of persons, not (as many suppose) a building. The body was estab...

IN this work an attempt is made to furnish Strangers with a handy and useful Guide to the chief objects of interest in the Metropolis and its Environs: comprising also much that...

A chess player may meet with competitors at any one of the several chess rooms. The best are Simpson’s, (Limited Co.,) late Ries’s, _Divan_, opposite Exeter Hall, Strand; Kilpac...

Club-houses.—During the last forty or fifty years new habits amongst the upper classes have led to the establishment of a variety of _Club-houses_—places of resort unknown to ou...

Abbey Wood, Kent L. B. 12 Acton, Midd. from all N. L. Stations. Anerley, Surrey L. B. 7½ Balham, Surrey Vic. 5 — L. B. 11 Barking, Essex Shore. & Fen. 7 Barking Road, Essex Shor...

{16} Most of the illustrations are _bird’s-eye views_, taken from house-tops and church-towers, in order to shew as many public buildings as possible. The reader will attribute...