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- Young lambs to sell
- Wat d'yer call that
- Waggon of the second half of the Seventeenth Century
(From Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata.') - Troope every one
- Toynbee Hall and St. Jude’s Church
- Tower in the Earlier Style. Church at Earl's Barton
- Tomb of Edward III. in Westminster Abbey
- Tiddy Diddy Doll
- Three Rows a Penny pins
- The Tower of London
Of all the prisoners who suffered death at the termination of their captivity in the Tower, there is none whose fate was so cruel as that of Lady Jane Grey. Her story belongs to English history. Recall, when next you visit the Tower, the short and tragic life of this young Queen of a nine days' reign. - The Shooting-Gallery
- The New Whitechapel Art Gallery
(The building to the right is a free library.) Some of the people, but not many, go off westward and wander about the halls of the British Museum. I do not know why they go there, because ancient Egypt is to them no more than modern Mexico, and the Etruscan vases are no more interesting than the “Souvenir of Margate,” which costs a penny. But they do go; they roam from room to room with listless indifference, seeing nothing. In the same spirit of curiosity, baffled yet satisfied, they go to the South Kensington Museum and gaze upon its treasures of art; or they go to the National Portrait Gallery, finding in Queen Anne Boleyn a striking likeness to their own Maria, but otherwise not profiting in any discoverable manner by the contents of the gallery. And some of them go to the National Gallery, where there are pictures which tell stories. - The New Model Dwellings
- The Lepers Begging
Leprosy is supposed to have had its origin in Egypt: the laws laid down in the Book of Leviticus for the separation of lepers are stringent and precise: it was believed, partly, no doubt, on account of these statutes in the Book of the Jewish Law, that the disease was brought into Western Europe by the Crusaders; but this was erroneous, because it was in this country before the Crusaders. Thus the Palace of St. James stands upon the site of a lazar house founded before the Conquest for fourteen leprous maidens. - The Globe Theatre
The first theatre was built in 1570. Thirty years after there were seven. The Queen had companies of children to play before her. They were the boys of the choirs of St. Paul's, Westminster, Whitehall, and Windsor. The actors called themselves the servants of some great lord. Lord Leicester, Lord Warwick, Lord Pembroke, Lord Howard, the Earl of Essex, and others all had their company of actors—not all at the same time. The principal Houses were those at Southwark, and especially at Bank Side, where there were three, including the famous Globe - The Embarkation of Henry VIII. from Dover, 1520
(From the original painting at Hampton Court.) - The East London Mission
- The Bridge of Hope
“The Bridge of Hope,” a Well-known East End Night Refuge. - Temple Bar, London
(Built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1670; taken down in 1878 and since rebuilt at Waltham Cross.) - Sweet Lavender
- Sw-e-e-p
- Stinking Fish
- South-east Part of London in the Fifteenth Century, showing the Tower and Wall
- Songs, penny a sheet
- Sixpence a pound, Fair Cherryes
- Six bunches a penny, sweet bloomin Lavender
- Sir Francis Drake, in his Forty-third Year
- Shipping in the Thames, circa 1660
(From Pricke's 'South Prospect of London.') - Saxon Horsemen
(Harl. MS. 603.) - Saxon Church at Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts
- Sand 'O
- Royal Arms of England from Richard I. to Edward III
(From the wall arcade, south aisle of nave, Westminster Abbey.) - Roman London
- Ripe Cherries
- Remains of the Wall
The City was thus protected by a great wall pierced by a few gates, with bastions and towers. At the East End after the Norman Conquest rose the Great White Tower still standing. At the West End was a tower called Montfichet's Tower. - Pots and Kettles to mend
- Paul Pindar's House
- Past one c'clock, an' a fine morning
- Part of the Roman Wall at Leicester
- Ow-oo
- Ordinary Dress of Gentlemen in 1675
(From Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata.') - Ordinary Attire of Women of the Lower Classes
(From Sandford's 'Coronation Procession of James II.') - Old St. Paul's, from the East
- Old St. Paul's on Fire
- Old London Bridge
Houses were erected in course of time along the Bridge on either side like a street, but with intervals; and along the roadway in the middle were chain posts to protect the passengers. As the Bridge was only 40 feet wide the houses must have been small. But they were built out at the back overhanging the river, and the roadway itself was not intended for carts or wheeled vehicles. Remember that everything was brought to the City on pack horse or pack ass. The table of Tolls sanctioned by King Edward I. makes no mention of cart or waggon at all. Men on horseback and loaded horses can get along with a very narrow road. Perhaps we may allow twelve feet for the road which gives for the houses on either side a depth of 14 feet each. - Old Cloths
- O' clo
- New Laid Eggs
- Milton’s Cottage, Chalfont St. Giles
Chalfont St. Giles lies down in the valley of the Misbourne, across the high road which runs left and right, and past the Pheasant Inn. It is a place made famous by Milton’s residence here, when he fled London and the Great Plague. The cottage—the “pretty cot,” as he aptly calls it, taken for him by Thomas Ellwood, the Quaker—is still standing, and is the last house on the left-hand side of the long village street. The poet could only have known it to be a “pretty cot” by repute, for he was blind. - Milk below, Maids
- Mile End Almshouses
Homes and schools for the boys and girls, hospitals for the adult, there remain the aged. Dotted about all over London there are about a hundred and fifty almshouses; of these about half are situated in and about East London. Not that the people of East London have been more philanthropic in their endowments than those of the west, but, before there was any city of East London, almshouses were planted here on account of the salubrity and freshness of the air and the cheapness of the ground. Some of these have been moved farther afield, their original sites being built over. The People’s Palace, for instance, is built upon the site of the Bancroft almshouses, founded in 1728 for the maintenance and education of one hundred poor. Their original house has gone, but the charity is still maintained. - Martyrdom of St. Edmund by the Danes
(From a drawing belonging to the Society of Antiquaries.) - London before the Spire of St. Paul's was burned; showing the Bridge, Tower, Shipping, &c
- Letters for post
- Lay Costumes in the Twelfth Century
- Large silver eels
- Knives to Grind
- Knives and Scissors to Grind
- I love a ballad in print
- House in Stoke Newington in which Edgar Allan Poe Lived
Stoke Newington is connected with the name of Edgar Allan Poe. It was here that he was at school, where he was brought over by the Allans as a child. The house still stands; it is at the corner of Edward’s Lane, which runs out of Church Street. Let us hope that the eccentricities of this wayward poet were not due to the influences of Nonconformist Newington.