Part 15

177, 178 Fleet Street, (Peele’s—files of the _Times_ for many years.)

24 King William Street, (Wild’s.)

34 Mount Street, Grosvenor Square, (St. George’s.)

22 Paddington Green, (Working Men’s.)

Patent Museum Library, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, (free.)

British Museum Library, (apply for ticket; enclosing letter of introduction from respectable householder.)

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There are Reading and News Rooms belonging to a large number of learned societies and public institutions; but these are for the most part accessible only to members.

CHESS ROOMS.

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; Kilpack’s, Covent Garden, (also an American Bowling Saloon;) and Pursell’s, Cornhill. Many Coffee-shops are provided with chess-boards and men, and many dining and chop houses have chess-rooms up-stairs.

THEATRES.

There are at present about thirty-seven London Theatres, but those named below are all that need here be considered.

Adelphi Strand. Alhambra Leicester Square. Astley’s Amphitheatre 6½ Bridge Road, Lambeth. Royal Amphitheatre Holborn. Britannia Theatre Hoxton Old Town. Charing Cross King William Street, Strand. City of London 36 Norton Folgate. Covent Garden, (Opera House) Bow Street. Court Theatre Sloane Square. Drury Lane Brydges Street. Gaiety Strand. Garrick Leman Street, Goodman’s Fields. Globe Strand. Grecian City Road. Great Eastern Whitechapel Road. Haymarket East side of Haymarket. Holborn Holborn. King’s Cross Liverpool Street, King’s Cross. Her Majesty’s, (Opera House) West side of Haymarket. Lyceum Wellington Street, Strand. Marylebone New Church Street, Lisson Grove. Olympic Wych Street, Drury Lane. Opera Comique Strand. Pavilion 85 Whitechapel Road. Philharmonic Islington. Princess’s 73 Oxford Street. Prince of Wales’s 4 and 5 Tottenham Street. Queen’s, (late St. Martin’s Hall) Longacre. Royalty, or Soho 73 Dean Street, Soho. Sadler’s Wells St. John’s Street Road. St. James’s 23 King Street, St. James’s. Standard 204 Shoreditch, High Street. Strand Between 168 and 169 Strand. Surrey 124 Blackfriars Road. Vaudeville Strand. Victoria 135 Waterloo Road.

CONCERT ROOMS.

Willis’s Rooms, King Street, St. James’s.

Hanover Square Rooms.

Exeter Hall, 372 Strand, Choral Societies, Sacred Harmonic, &c.

St. James’s Hall, Quadrant and Piccadilly,—Concerts occasionally.

16 Store Street, Bedford Square, „ „

St. George’s Hall, Langham Place.

Princess’s Concert Room, Princess’s Theatre,—Concerts occasionally.

Queen’s Concert Room, (attached to Her Majesty’s Theatre,)—Concerts occasionally.

Myddleton Hall, Upper Street, Islington.

Agricultural Hall, Islington,—Concerts occasionally.

MUSIC HALLS.

Alhambra {178} Leicester Square, (east side.) Alhambra (Temperance) Music Hall Shoreditch. Borough Music Hall 170 Union Street. Cambridge Music Hall Commercial Street. Canterbury Hall Lambeth Upper Marsh. Deacon’s Sadler’s Wells. Evans’ Covent Garden. Islington Philharmonic Hall {179} High Street, Islington. Marylebone High Street Metropolitan Music Hall 125 Edgeware Road. Middlesex Drury Lane. The Oxford 6 Oxford Street, (east end.) Pavilion Music Hall Tichborne Street, Haymarket. Raglan Music Hall 26 Theobald’s Road. Regent Vincent Square, Westminster. South London Music Hall 92 London Rd., St. George’s Fields. Royal (late Weston’s) Music Hall 242 High Holborn. Wilton’s Music Hall Wellclose Square. Winchester Hall Southwark Bridge Road.

MODES OF ADMISSION TO VARIOUS INTERESTING PLACES.

Free.

_British Museum_.—_Chelsea Hospital_.—_Courts of Law and Justice_ (at the Criminal Court and the Police Courts a fee is often needed.)—_Docks_, (but not the vaults and warehouses without an introduction.)—_Dulwich Gallery_.—_East India Museum_, Fife House, Whitehall.—_Greenwich Hospital_, (a small fee for some parts.)—_Hampton Court Palace_, (Sundays as well as week-days).—_Houses of Parliament_, (some portions every day; more on Saturdays.)—_Kew Botanic Garden and Pleasure Grounds_, (Sundays as well as week-days.)—_Museum of Economic Geology_, Jermyn Street.—_National Gallery_.—_National Portrait Gallery_.—_Patent Museum_, (adjoining the South Kensington Museum.)—_Soane’s Museum_, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.—_Society of Arts_ Exhibition of Inventions, (in the spring of each year.)—_St. Paul’s Cathedral_, (fees for Crypt and all above stairs.)—_Westminster Abbey_, (a fee for some of the Chapels.)—_Westminster Hall_.—_Windsor Castle_, (at periods notified from time to time.)—_Woolwich Repository_, (the Dockyard was closed in October, 1869, and a letter of introduction is needed for the Arsenal.) Private Picture Galleries are sometimes opened free; of which notice is given in the newspapers.

Shilling Admissions.

The number of Shilling Exhibitions open in London is at all times very large, but more especially in the summer months. The first page of the _Times_ contains advertisements relating to the whole of them; while the penny papers contain a considerable number. As the list varies from time to time, we cannot print it here; but the following are the chief places where the exhibitions or entertainments are held. (Theatres and Music Halls are not included; because the terms of admission vary to different parts of those buildings. We may here add that _Burford’s_ and the _Colosseum_ have long been closed.)—_Cremorne Gardens_, Chelsea.—_Crystal Palace_, Sydenham, (2s. 6d. on Saturday, 1s. on other days.)—_Egyptian Hall_, Piccadilly, (sometimes two or three exhibitions at once, in different parts of the building.)—_Gallery of Illustration_, Regent Street.—Various temporary exhibitions in large rooms situated in the Haymarket, Pall Mall, Regent Street, Piccadilly, and Bond Street.—_Picture Exhibitions_, (such as the _Royal Academy_, the _British Institution_, the _Society of British Artists_, two _Water Colour Societies_, &c.)—_Polytechnic Institution_, Regent Street.—_Polygraphic Hall_, Strand.—_Tussaud’s Waxwork_, Baker Street Bazaar.—_Zoological Gardens_, (sixpence on Mondays.)

Admit by Introduction.

Among the places to which admission may be obtained by personal introduction, or by letter, the following may be named:—_Antiquarian Society’s Museum_, Somerset House.—_Armourer’s Museum_, (ancient armour,) 81 Coleman Street.—_Asiatic Society’s Museum_, 5 New Burlington Street.—_Bank of England Museum_, (collection of coins.)—_Botanical Society’s Gardens and Museum_, Regent’s Park.—_College of Surgeons’ Museum_, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.—_Guildhall Museum_, (old London antiquities.)—_Linnæan Society’s Museum_, Burlington House.—_Mint_, (process of coining,) Tower Hill.—_Missionary Museum_, (idols, rude implements, &c.,) Bloomfield Street, Finsbury.—_Naval Museum_, (formerly, now at South Kensington.)—_Private Picture Galleries_, (several.)—_Royal Institution Museum_, Albemarle Street.—_Trinity House Museum_, (models of lighthouses, &c.,) Tower Hill.—_United Service Museum_, Scotland Yard.—_Woolwich Arsenal_.

_N.B._—These lists are subject to constant change.

PRINCIPAL PUBLIC AND TURKISH BATHS.

(Those printed in _italics_ are public baths, established rather for the benefit of the working and middle classes, than for the sake of profit. At most of them a third-class cold bath can be obtained for 1d.; from which minimum the prices rise to about 6d. or 8d. Many of the so-called _Turkish_ baths are ordinary baths in which the arrangements for the Turkish or Oriental system have recently been introduced. There are also a few _Medicated Baths_, kept by medical practitioners for the use of invalids.)

_Bermondsey Baths_ 39 _Spa Road_, _Bermondsey_. _Bloomsbury_ _Endell Street_, _St. Giles’s_. Cadogan 155 Sloane Street, Chelsea. Coldbath 25 Coldbath Square, Clerkenwell. Culverwell’s 10 Argyll Place and 5 New Broad Street. Islington Cross Street. Lambeth 8 Mount Street, Lambeth. Mahomed’s 42 Somerset Street, Portman Square. Metropolitan 23 Ashley Crescent, City Road. Old Roman 5 Strand Lane. Old Royal 10½ and 11 Bath Street, Newgate Street. Pentonville Pentonville Road, (south side.) _Poplar_ _East India Road_. Portland Great Portland Street, (east side.) Royal York 54 York Terrace, Regent’s Park. Russell 56 Great Coram Street, Russell Square. Russian 16a Old Cavendish Street. _St. George’s_ 8 _Davis Street_, _Berkeley Square_, _and_ 88 _Buckingham Palace Road_. — 22 _Lower Belgrave Place_. _St. James’s_ 16 _Marshall Street_, _Golden Square_. _St. Martin’s_ _Orange Street_, _Leicester Square_. _St. Marylebone_ 181 _Marylebone Road_. Wenlock Wenlock Road, City Road. _Westminster_ 21 _Great Smith Street_, _Westminster_. _Whitechapel_ _Goulston Square_, _Whitechapel_.

Turkish.

191 Blackfriars Road, S.E. 184 Euston Road, N.W. 155 Sloane Street, S.W. 282 Goswell Road, E.C. 7 Kennington Park Road, S.E. 1 Upper John Street, Golden Square, W. 55 Marylebone Road, N.W. 42 Somerset Street, Portman Square, N.W.

Medicated Baths.

Ballard’s Chapel Place, Cavendish Square. Campion’s 155 Sloane Street, Chelsea. Mahomed’s 42 Somerset Street, Portman Square.

CABS.

Practically speaking, the new law ordering cabmen to display a flag, on which is painted their tariff per mile and per hour, is a dead letter. Few or none shew flags, and many have none to shew. Cab proprietors can now charge what they please, provided they take out a license from the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police, on which is endorsed the rate by distance or by time intended to be charged, and the number of persons to be carried. No fare less than one shilling is to be offered. The driver is to give passenger a card which specifies the licensed price per hour or per mile. As regards luggage, for each package carried outside 2d. extra is charged. For each person _above two_ 6d. extra on the entire journey. If such extra person be a child under 10 years of age, 3d. Two children of such age to be reckoned as one person. If cab be discharged more than four miles from Charing Cross by radius, an extra charge will be made for such excess of distance, as per sum stated on cabman’s card. Every full mile of such excess will be charged for at per tariff per mile stated on such card. Driver is not compelled to drive more than 6 miles. For every quarter of an hour he is kept waiting, if the cab be hired by time, one-fourth of his tariff per hour. If hired by distance, for every quarter of an hour of waiting, the rate charged per mile. By time, for any period under one hour, the sum stated on driver’s card as charged per hour. As a general rule, cabmen charge 2s. per hour for four-wheeled cabs, and 2s. 6d. for “Hansom;” and by distance, 1s. for the first mile, and 6d. for the second, and so on. Property left in hackney carriages should be asked for at the office for property left in such carriages, at the office of the Commissioners of Police, Great Scotland Yard, Charing Cross. Cabmen are bound, under a penalty, to take such lost property to the nearest police station within 24 hours. In case of disagreement between a cabman and his passenger, the latter can compel the cabman to drive to the nearest police office; and if a Magistrate be then sitting, he will at once settle the dispute. If such office is closed, the cabman may be required to drive to the nearest police station, where the complaint will be entered, and adjudicated at the magistrate’s next sitting. Our readers cannot do better than purchase (price 1s.) a little book on the subject of Cab Fares and Regulations, published under the auspices of the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police. It can be ordered through any bookseller, or may be purchased direct, at the office for its sale, a few doors north of the entrance to Great Scotland Yard. In it will be found a list of fares, and the distances in yards, from many parts in London to others. Its usefulness will amply repay our readers for their small outlay in its purchase.

HINTS TO STRANGERS.

Whether you know the proper cab-fare or not, always make a bargain with the cabman when hiring his vehicle; and take a note of his number.

Keep the right hand side of the pavement when walking.

If out with other country friends, keep well together.

Observe caution while crossing crowded thoroughfares.

In asking for information, apply to shopkeepers, or to policemen, rather than to passers-by.

The London police are, for the most part, reliable men; and strangers in any doubt or difficulty can generally obtain useful aid from them.

Be on your guard against pickpockets in crowds, street exhibitions, and omnibuses.

Beware of strangers who endeavour to force their acquaintance on you, and affect to be unacquainted with London; they are often low sharpers.

Keep no more cash about you than is needed for the day’s supply.

Be cautious in opening your purse or looking at your watch in the streets.

Avoid low neighbourhoods after dark; if there is anything worth seeing there, see it in the daytime.

Disregard street-beggars; residents only (and not always even they) can tell the deserving from the undeserving.

COMMISSIONAIRES OR MESSENGERS.

These are a body of retired soldiers of good character, who were originally organized in 1859, by Captain Walter. Their central office, open day and night, is at Exchange Court, 419_a_ Strand, where men can always be hired. But they are also to be seen, and are easily recognisable by their neat dark green uniform and badge, in most large thoroughfares. Their tariff is,—twopence for half-a-mile or under; and threepence for any distance over half-a-mile to a mile. Back fare, or charge for return, (unless bearing a return message,) is not allowed. A charge of one penny per mile extra, if the parcel carried weighs more than 14 lbs. If engaged by time, sixpence per hour, twopence a quarter of an hour, half-a-crown for a day of eight hours. By special arrangement, they may be hired at from 15s. to 20s. per week.

THE GREAT INTERCEPTS MAIN DRAINAGE SYSTEM OF LONDON.

North of the Thames are the _High Level_, the _Middle Level_, the _Low Level_, and the _Western District Sewers_, together with an _Outfall_ at Barking Creek. The High Level drains Hampstead, Highgate, Kentish Town, Highbury, Stoke Newington, Hackney, and passes under Victoria Park to Old Ford; its length is about 9 miles. The Middle Level runs by way of Kensal Green, Kensington Park, Notting Hill, Bayswater, Oxford Street, and so under a number of minor streets, to Old Ford, being about 12 miles long. The Low Level commences near Pimlico, and passes along under the Thames embankment to Blackfriars, whence it is to go through the City and Whitechapel to West Ham. The Western District Sewers drain Acton, Hammersmith, Fulham, Chelsea, &c., on a plan different from that of the main drainage in other localities. The Outfall, an immense work 6 miles long, continues the Upper and Middle Level Sewers from Old Ford to West Ham, and all the three sewers thence to Barking Creek, where stupendous arrangements are made for conducting the flow of the sewage into the Thames. The drainage south of the Thames comprises a _High Level Sewer_, a _Low Level Sewer_, and an _Outflow_. The High Level drains Clapham, Brixton, Streatham, Dulwich, Camberwell, &c.; the Low Level keeps nearer the Thames, by Wandsworth, Battersea, Vauxhall, Lambeth, Southwark, Bermondsey, and Rotherhithe, to Deptford; while the Outfall continues both these lines of sewers through Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, and across Plumstead Marshes to Crossness Point, where the works are situated for conveying the sewage into the river.

INDEX

Abney Park Cemetery, 61

Achilles’s Statue, 127

Adelphi Theatre, 28, 121

Admiralty, 30, 46

Admission to Places of Interest, 178

Albert Suspension Bridge, 102

Aldermen, 85

Aldgate, 18

Aldgate High Street, 18

Alexandra Park, 167

Alhambra, 124

Amusements, 125

Apothecaries’ Hall, 97

Apsley House, 38, 39

Armouries, Tower, 78

Arsenal, Woolwich, 160

Art Exhibitions, 70

Artillery Ground, 32

Arundel Street, 27

Astley’s Amphith., 123

Austin Friars, 17

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Bank of England, 15, 93

Bank of London, 17

Banks, 94

Baptist College, 72

Barclay & Perkins’s, 113

Barnes, 145

Barnet, 162

Baths, 180

Battersea, 104, 144

— Bridge, 104

— Park, 133

Bazaars, 31, 113

Belgrave Square, 31

Berkeley Square, 31

Bethnal Green, 19

Bethnal Green Cemetery, 61

Bethnal G. Museum, 66

Billingsgate, 18, 111

Birdcage Walk, 126

Bishopsgate Street, 18

Blackfriars’ Bridge, 22, 103

Blackheath, 163

Blackwall, 159

— Railway, 141

Blue Coat School, 73

Board of Trade Office, 47

Boat-races, 145

Bolt Court, 25

Bond Street, 31

Book-trade, 115

Botanical Gardens, 134

Bow Church, 56

Bow Lane, 19

Bread Street, 19

Breweries, 113

Bridges, 102

Bridgewater Gallery, 40

— House, 40

Brighton Railway, 140

Britannia Theatre, 122

British Institution, 70

— Museum, 62

Broad Street, 17

Bromley, 163

Brooke Street, 24

Bryanstone Square, 31

Buccleuch House, 40

Buckingham Palace, 34

Bunhill Fields, 32

Burlington House, 69

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Cabs and Cab Fares, 137, 182

Cannon Street, 14, 33

Canterbury Hall, 124

Cattle Market, 110

Cavendish Square, 31

Cecil Street, 27

Cemeteries, 57, 61

Central Criminal Court, 21

Chancery Lane, 25

Chapels, 55

Charing Cross, 28, 30

— Railway Station and Hotel, 27

— Theatre, 28, 122

Charitable Institutions, 76

Charles I.’s Statue, 28

Charter House, 20

Charter House School, 73

Chatham and Dover Railway, 141

Cheapside, 15, 19

Chelsea, 144

— Bridge, 104

— Hospital, 143

Chess Rooms, 176

Chesterfield House, 40

Child’s Banking Ho., 26

Chiswick, 145

Chop-houses, 120

Christ’s Hospital, 73

Churches, 55

City Bank, 17

—Companies, 97

—of Lond. School, 20, 75

—Prison, 93

— Road, 32

—, the, 12, 15

Clapham, 144

Clement’s Inn, 27

Clock, Westminster, 43

Clothworkers’ Hall, 97

Clubs and Club Houses, 116, 173

Coal Exchange, 110

Cockspur Street, 30

Coffee-houses, 120

— shops, 120

Colleges, 70

Colonial Office, 47

Colosseum, 132

Commercial Docks, 100

Commissionaires, 183

Common Council, 85

Companies’ Halls, 96

Concert Rooms, 123, 178

Constitution Hill, 127

Corn Exchange, 18, 113

Cornhill, 15, 18

Corporation, 84

Cotton’s Wharf, 18

Courts of Law, 44, 92

Court Theatre, 122

Covent G. Market, 111

— Theatre, 28

Crane Court, 25

Craven Street, 27

Crays, 163

Cremorne Gardens, 125

Crossness Point, 161

Crystal Palace, 163

— Railway, 139

Custom House, 18, 81

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Deptford, 154

Devonshire House, 39

Dining-rooms, 120

Dissenting Chapels, 59

Docks, 18, 99

Doctors’ Commons, 20

Doomsday Book, 92

Downing Street, 47

Down River Excur., 154

Drainage System, 86, 184

Drapers’ Hall, 96

Drury Lane Theatre, 28, 121

Duke of York’s Column, 30

Duke of York’s School, 144

Dulwich College, 163

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East India Docks, 99

— Museum, 67

Edmonton, 163

Egyptian Hall, 124

Electric Time-ball, 158

Eltham, 163

Enfield, 163

English Presbyterian Theological Coll., 72

Entertainments, 124

Environs of London, 169

Epping Forest, 163

Erith, 161

Essex Street, 27

Eton College, 154

Euston Road, 32

— Station, 32

Evans’s Hotel and Supper Rooms, 28, 124

Exchequer Office, 47

Excursions, 143

Exeter Hall, 28

Exhibition, International, 129

Exhibitions, &c., 179

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Farringdon St., 22

Fenchurch Station, 141

— Street, 18

Finchley, 162

— Cemetery, 61

Finsbury Park, 133

— Square, 32

Fire Brigade, 88

Fires, Great, 10, 18, 80

Fishmongers’ Hall, 96

Fish Street, 18

Fish-supply, 111

Fleet Street, 22, 24

— Valley, 21

Floral Hall, 112

Food-supply, 109

Foreign Office, 47

Fountains, 88, 133, 166

Free Exhibitions, 179

Fulham, 145

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Gaiety Theatre, 28, 122

Gall. of Illustration, 12

George III.’s Statue, 30

George IV.’s Statue, 29

Globe Theatre, 28, 122

Gog and Magog, 89

Goldsmiths’ Hall, 20, 96

Gough Square, 25

Government Offices, 45

Gracechurch Street, 18

Grand Surrey Docks, 100

Gravesend, 161

Grays, 161

Gray’s Inn, 91

Great E. Railway, 141

— Nor. Railway, 138

— W. Railway, 138

Grecian Theatre, 122

Greenhithe, 161

Green Park, 38, 127

Greenwich, 155

— Hospital, 155

— Park, 158

Gresham House, 95

— Lectures, 72

— Street, 17

Grocers’ Hall, 96

Grosvenor Gallery, 39

— Hotel, 118

— House, 39

— Square, 31

Guards’ Memorial, 30

Guildhall, 20, 88

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Haberdashers’ Hall, 96

Hackney College, 72

Hammersmith, 145

Hampstead, 162

Hampton Court Palace, 149

Hanover Square, 31

— Rooms, 123

Harrow, 162

Havelock’s Statue, 30

Haymarket Theatre, 30, 121

Henry VII.’s Chapel, 51

H. M. Theatre, 30, 121

Highest Ground in London, 20

Highgate, 162

— Cemetery, 61

Hints to Strangers, 183

Holborn, 22

— Hill, 23

— Theatre, 122

— Valley Viaduct, 22

Holford House, 40

Holland House, 40

Home Office, 30, 47

Hornsey, 162

Horse Guards, 30, 46

Horticultural Gardens, 135

Hospitals, 76

Hotel Charges, viii

Hotels, 117

Houndsditch, 18

House of Correction, 93

Houses and Streets, 11

— of Parlt., 30, 49

Howard Street, 27

Hudson’s Bay House, 18

Hungerford Bridge, 104

Hyde Park, 31, 127

— Square, 31

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India House, 95

— Office, 47

Inns, 117

— of Court, 26, 91

Insurance Offices, 94

International Exhibition, 129

Ironmonger Lane, 19

Ironmongers’ Hall, 96

Isle of Dogs, 159

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Jewel House, Tower, 80

Jewish Synagogues, 59

Jews’ Quarter, 18

Johnson’s Court, 25

Junior Athenæum Club, 40

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Kennington Park, 133

Kensal Green, 61

Kensington Garden, 131

— Palace, 36

Kew Gardens, 146

King’s College, 27, 45, 72

— Cross Station, 138

King Street, 19

King William St., 13, 18

Koh-i-noor, 80

* * * * *

Lady’s Mile, 129

Lambeth Bridge, 104

— Palace, 36

Landseer’s four Lions, 29

Lansdowne House, 40

Leadenhall Market, 111

— Street, 18

Letter Deliveries, 175

Lewisham, 163

Lighting, 87

Limehouse, 159

Lincoln’s Inn, 91

Lloyd’s, 90

Lombard Street, 15, 18

London and N.-W. Railway, 138

London Bridge, 15, 18, 102

— Hotel, 119

— Station, 140

London, Chatham, and Dover Bridge, 23

London Docks, 100

— in Roman times, 9

— Stone, 168

— University, 70

Long Walk, Windsor, 154

Lord Mayor’s Show, 85

Lothbury Street, 17

Lower Serle’s Place, 25

Ludgate Hill, 21

— Railway Station, 21

Ludgate Street, 21

Lyceum Theatre, 28, 122

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