DA FS5-t- <&avnM Intorattjj Htbranj BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF Hem u *B. Sage 1891 Jk*bHM.. \3 a 9306 Digitized by Microsoft® The date shows when this volume was taken. To renew this book copy the call No. and give to the librarian. HOME USE RULES All Books subject to Recall All borrowers must regis- ter in the library to borrow ^ books for home use. All books must be re- turned at end of college year for inspection and repairs. Limited books must be re- turned within the four week limit and not renewed. Students must return all books before leaving town. Officers should arrange for the return of books wanted during their absence from town. Volumes of periodicals and of pamphlets are held in the library as much as Companion Volume to " London City Suburbs." LONDON CITY Its History— Streets— Traffic— Buildings —People. By W. J. Loftie, b.a., f.s.a. Over Three Hundred Illustrations from Original Drawings by W. 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P3 < z w O Digitized by Microsoft® London City Suburbs AS THEY ARE TO-DAY BY PERCY FITZGERALD ILLUSTRATED BY W. LUKER, JR. FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS 'OLD THATCHED LODGE, WOODBERY DOWN PUBLISHED BY The Leadenhall Prefs, Ltd: 50 Leadenhall Street, London, E.C. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. S\ew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 743 & 745 Broadway 1893 ! The whole of the Illustrations in ' London City Suburbs' are from original drawings, and are copyright. Digitized by Microsoft® s The Leadenhall Press, Ltd: 50 Leadenhall Street, London, E.C. Digitized by Microsoft® \ s k BY COMMAND DEDICATED TO Her Majesty the Queen-Empress Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® A MILL AT BEDDINGTON PREFACE In the following" pages will be found the result of many years' explora- tion of the interesting" and picturesque " London City Suburbs." It is, of course, no untrodden ground ; and the green lanes, and commons, and fair meads of the suburbs — near and distant — are familiar enough. But there is much that is unknown or overlooked, and too much, alas! that is bein^ah r " == L^- ' J. i : SSI POND AT BARNES COMMON' ILLUSTRATIONS Achilles Statue Acton Wegg Avenue Albert Gate, Mansions at Anerley, Church Road Fox Lane . Barnes Common, Pond at The Brook . Barnet, Long Street Battersea Park, Central Avenue In Bayswater, Palace Court, bit of Beddington, A Mill at The Wandle Bedford Park, A House in In the Woodstock Road Belgrave Square PAGE PAGE 74 Berkeley Square 47 251 Beulah Hill 199 247 Blackheath, Morden College 207 viii Pond on 151 195 The Quadrangle, Morden College . 56 194 Yanbrugh Castle . 153 Blackheath Common, Yanbrugh Park 152 xi Blackheath Hill, "The Horse and Groom" Inn 207 19 Bloomsbury Square 47 119 Bow, Low Road 136 218 Brent, The River 254 15 Brentford 255 6 At 253 vii Old Bridge at '39 167 River Brent and Canal at 261 17 The Lock at 258 246 Brentford Bridge, At . 257 16 Brixton, Old Mill at ... 172 Digitized by Microsoft® ILLUSTRATIONS Brixton, Raleigh House Brixton Hill, On Bromley from Beckenham Bromley, High Street Bromley Recreation Grounds, View from Brompton, Herbert Crescent Burlington House, Remains of, removed to Battersea Park Bushey Park Cadogan Square Caledonian Road, In the Canonbury Tower Castelnau, Upper Bridge Road Chelsea, Church Street " Royal Hospital Inn " Royal Military Asylum Chelsea Church, Old . Cheyne Walk, Old Houses, showing Turner's House on the extreme left Chiswick, " Burlington Arms, 1 ' Church Street Church Street Chiswick Church Chiswick Ferry Clapham Common, N.E. Corner of North Side, Old Houses at Pond on Clissold or Newington Park Crouch End From Muswell Hill Crystal Palace from Dawson's Hill In the Anerley Road, near Dartmouth Park Hill . From Denmark Hill Dulwich, Court Lane "The Greyhound" Inn Dulwich, East, Dog Kennel Hill Dog Kennel Hill Dulwich, North, Redpost Hill Dulwich College and Chapel Dulwich Picture Gallery, Entrance to . Ealing Common . Ealing, South PAGE PAGE 175 Ealing, The Rookery in the Uxbridge Road at 43 171 Eaton Square 32 212 Edgware Road . 73 140 216 Finsbury Park, In 109 4 1 Finsbury, The New River, Green Lanes 85 ) Friern Barnet, In the Meadows 87 222 Fulham, Bishop's Avenue 235 285 Daisy Lane 225 Old Garden in Crabtree Alley 240 29 " The Old Crab Tree " 236 90 90 Grand Junction Canal 83 244 Grangewood, View from 293 2 2 2 Greenford 133 221 Green Park, Spencer House, East side of 30 221 Greenwich 201 229 Church Street 205 Near . 209 229 Old Houses 21 1 249 Greenwich Park . 21 3 249 Looking across London 144 245 Looking across the Isle of Dogs from 147 250 Grosvenor House from Park Lane 275 165 Grosvenor Road from Lambeth Bridge . 22 7 44 Grosvenor Square 42 158 Grove Park 204 77 Bromley Road 215 1 10 81 177 181 Hackney Marsh, River Lea . 154 Ham, Ham House Ham Street Ham Common . 279 276 113 Ham Pond 279 102 Hammersmith, In the Broadway 18 1 So Lower Mall 244 xiii St. Paul's School 59 '75 Hammersmith Bridge 237 xiv Hammersmith Road, "Red Cow Inn " 243 179 Hampstead, " Bull and Bush " 100 186 Fitzjohn's Avenue 99 179 Heath Mount 101 199 Holly Hill, showing Fire Station 100 " Jack Straw's Castle " IOI 53 Leg of Mutton Pond . 92 135 Old Cottages 102 Digitized by Microsoft® ILLUSTRATIONS Xill PAGE Hampstead, Perrin's Court I05 " The Spaniards IOO Well Walk 99 Hampstead Heath, A Corner on 105 Harrow Churchyard, View from Harrow-on-the-Hill, from the Meadows . Haverstock Hill, Belsize Avenue Hiffhefate from Parliament Hill 45 97 96 COURT LANE, DULWICH Hampstead Heath, Bathing Pond in distance 89 Highgate, In the Highgate Road Looking across Vale of Health to Highgate 76 Hampton Court Bridge 28 1 Hampton Court Palace . ix Harrow and " Welsh Harp " from Hampstead Heath . . 93 Highgate Wood, In Holland Park . Lord Holland's Lane Hornsey Hornsey Rise 106 113 55 38 120 124 Digitized by Microsoft® ILLUSTRATIONS Houses of Parliament, Clock Tower From Albert Embankment From Lambeth Bridge Hyde Park Corner, Apsley House Isleworth, Church Street Cottages from the River Road from the Town Wharf. Sion or Syon House, near Stream at " Swan Inn '' The Mill and Lock Islington, Liverpool Road PAGE I I ii 27 23 268 271 271 268 267 86 Kennington, Old Houses, High Street " The Horns " Kensington, Addison Road Addison Road North . High Street Melbury Road Kensington Gardens, Sheep-shearing in Kensington Palace, South Front Gardens Kensington Park Road Kew Bridge Kew Green Kilburn, In a Farm at Willesden Lane Kingsbury The Brent The Brent, near Kingston Bridge Knightsbridge Barracks Lambeth Bridge and Pier Lambeth Reach . Lea Bridge, From Near Lee, Burnt Ash Hill Lewisham High Road Lewisham, St. John's Road . Leyton, High Street Leytonstone — Evening A Lane at Fillebrook Terrace Maiden, Hogsmill River Marble Arch Merton Abbey, The Wandle at Millbank Penitentiary Mitcham Mitcham Common Mortlake at Low-tide — Evening- Church Walk Cottages at High Street The River Bank at Muswell Hill St. James's Lane . PAGE l6l l6l 17 6l 71 54 57 68 49 60 173 2 59 2 39 95 i°3 107 1 1 1 63 65 219 223 116 136 215 203 203 139 145 134 133 39 7- 5i x 163 169 33 263 67 267 263 109 1 10 DOG KENNEL HILL, EAST DULWICH Digitized by Microsoft® ILLUSTRATIONS xv New Cross, Jerningham Road 204 Mill Lane 1 96 Naval School Chapel 14S Rebecca Place 197 Telegraph Hill 149 The Goldsmith Company's Technical and Recreative Institute T 5 1 Northolt 1 1 7 Norwood, Lower, from Auckland Hill . 195 Gipsy Road , 1 2 High Street 189 View from Auckland Hill 1S2 Norwood, South, Auckland Road 189 Sunny Bank . 217 Norwood, Upper, Crown Hill 186 Norwood, West, Crystal Palace from . 183 Thornlaw Road . 190 Notting Hill, Ladbroke Grove and St. John's Church 50 Notting Hill Square 25 Osterley House, Osterley Park 275 Paddington, Praed Street 4 Pall Mall, St. James's Street 3 1 Park Lane, Fountain in . 48 Parliament Hill, On 119 Peckham Rye, Linden Grove 176 Waiting for Customers 1 80 Perivale, Church Farm 123 In the Meadows 1 27 Perivale Church . 135 Perivale Church and Brent River . 121 Portman Square . 36 Primrose Hill, St. Edmund's Terrace . 96 View from 7 Putney Bridge . 2 Putney, Cottages in Lower Richmond Road 232 High Street 243 In the Lower Richmond Road 44 Windsor Street 166 Putney Heath, Bowling Green House 162 Regent's Park — A Pleasant Hour . 78 Cambridge Terrace 79 PAGE Regent's Park, Chester Terrace . 79 In 62 In 84 Regent's Park Canal, from one of the Bridges So River, The, from Hammersmith Bridge 241 Roehamplon 1 66 " King's Head" 16S Roehampton Lane, Old House in 16S Richmond, Old Palace Yard . 292 Terrace Walk 283 Richmond Bridge 269 Richmond Green, Maid of Llonour Row 283 Richmond Park, and Kingston in the distance 289 Showing the Kingston Road on the far hill 273 St. John's Wood, Avenue Road 91 St. Peter's Park, Fernhead Road . 9 Shooter's Hill 211 Snaresbrook, Epping Forest at 141 South Audley Street, Old Burying-Ground 37 Southend Lane 120 CHRISTCHURCH KOAD, STEEATHAM HILL Digitized by Microsoft® XVI ILLUSTRATIONS Stamford Hill, Skinners' Company's School for Girls . . 143 " Strand-on-the-Green " 260 Cottages at 259 Kew Bridge in distance 264 Streatham Common . 193 Lane bordering 200 Pond on . 200 Streatham Hill, Christchurch Road . xv Sudbury, A Lane in .124 Harrow Road, near 126 Sudbury Court 1 2 3 Sydenham, Cox's Avenue 2 1 Lower, In the Meadows 1S5 View from Furze Hill 191 Sydenham Hill, On . .187 Teddington Lock 277 Telegraph Hill, View from . 35 Thames, The, from Nine Elms Pier 233 From Richmond Hill . 69 From Terrace Gardens, Richmond 280 Thornton Heath, View across . 181 Tooting, Rectory Lane . 194 Tooting Common, On . 185 Trafalgar Square from Whitehall 5 Tufnell Park Road . . 9 Tulse Hill, Christchurch Road . 208 Twickenham . 24 By the River . .291 Bell Lane 284 From the River . 287 Heath Road . 2SS Twickenham Ferry, By Twyford, The Brent, near Twyford, The Brent, near Vauxhall Bridge . PAGE 276 130 265 10 Wandsworth, By the Wandlc 235 From the Wandle 226 High Street 231 - The Wandle 23 The Wandle 66 Wandsworth Common 230 Wandsworth Plain, Old Houses in 230 Wanstead Park 131 River Roding from '37 Wembley, A Lane at 114 Cottage at 106 Thatched Cottage near 115 Westminster Abbey 26 Westminster Bridge, Looking towards the City from 3 Westminster, Great College Street 29 In Dean's Yard 30 Willesden, Craven Park 129 Nicol Road 129 Willesden Lane 125 Willesden Lane, Old Cottage in 125 Wimbledon 165 In the Grounds of Wimbledon House 162 Wimbledon Common . 156 Wimbledon Park, Crystal Palace from iS9 Wimbledon Park Lake 157 Woodbery Down, Old Thatched Lodge iii Worcester Park . 171 Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® PUTNEY BRIDGE Digitized by Microsoft® LOOKING TOWARDS THE CITY FKOM WESTMINSTER BRIDGE CHAPTER I LONDON SUBURBS Individuality of London Suburbs — Each preserves its distinct character — Modern growth and rapid absorption of the suburbs — " Travelling in London " — A score of " High Streets " — London " Tis sixty years since'' — Westminster Bridge the true centre of London — Wordsworth's lines. For the true Londoner nothing" can be so pleasing as to note the affectionate interest that is now shown in the history of his much-loved city. Within a few years there has been a general revival of interest in this fascinating subject. Artists and writers have explored unfrequented quarters and forgotten lanes, in search of all that is picturesque ; thus lending attraction to the magazine or to some imposing tome, such as was the predecessor of the present. It would seem as if these ardent labourers were hurrying to be in time to secure some record at least of the older monuments ; indeed, it is now necessary to use all con- venient speed ; for every day and hour almost is bringing with it its Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SUBURBS note of coming destruction, and the paragraph " Disappearing London " recurs with alarming frequency. Every old house or old church or college may be said to be under sentence; for it " cumbereth " valuable ground. It is almost pathetic to note the fine old house in the suburbs standing in its fair gar- dens and lawns looking on the highroad ; for it is already marked by the spoiler. Some forty or fifty years hence this rapacious greed will have wrought incalcul- able havoc. Business men and practical-minded persons seem to have a positive dislike to any old memorials of the kind. They would have them carted away: among the symmetrical modern structures they seem an eyesore. Soon or late, and more likely soon, there is certain to be a combined onslaught on the City churches, whose sites are coveted for palatial City warehouses, and such pressure it will be difficult to resist. When a substantial morsel of the old Roman wall is laid open to view in digging foundations, the utmost grace accorded is a day or two's delay to allow the antiquaries to come and see it. PRAED STREET, PADDINGTON Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SUBURBS 5 One of the most interesting things in the study of London is the variety, the marked distinction, between the component parts that make up the great whole. We are told of the "growth of London," ot the yearly absorption of out- lying districts ; but London has never be- come one homogeneous * mass. Yet, in spite of all, it still remains " London City," with London Suburbs attached to it ; and a eon tinned famili- arity prevents us observ- ing how all these annexed districts retain marked characteristics oi their own. A stranger taken for the first time through the various quarters could hardly fail to note their distinctive char- acter. Thus Westmin- ster, " Kelgrayia," May- fair, Islington, Knights- bridge, St. John's Wood, the Regent's Park, The 1 1 1 1 TRAFALGAR SQUARE FROM WHITEHALL Bol tons, the new Queen Anne district (" Cadogan Land," as we might style it) the ' Borough," Paddington, Pimlico, and many more such quarters, all offer "notes" and peculiarities oi their own. The more "official" suburbs, such as Chelsea and Kensington, or St. John's Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SUBURBS Wood, still retain, in spite of the efforts of the builder, a kind of rural air: in Buckingham Palace Road, close to Victoria Station, there is still to be seen the survival of gardens in front of the houses ; while in a street within view of Sloane Square only a year or two ago were to be found the green roadside wooden palings, stunted trees, with public-house signs suspended from posts. This individuality has been by the erection which suggest an independence, and concentrate all A concert — say at Town Hall — has local festivity ; we provincial town gala has roused some excitement, the High Street or Bishopsgate prosperous coun- is a snug, old- not a little fostered of Town Halls, idea of municipal which tend to the local energies, the Westminster quite an air of seem to be in a where some rare the natives into A walk through of Southwark Street suggests a try town. There fashioned air, gabled houses ■m ?f&4 » V-6 %*, •*& ftifljn&'ji m 7 -WU au PALACE COURT, BIT 01- BAYSWATEK with framed and here and there hedged in between more pretentious neighbours ; while the shops have a provincial glitter. The waggons and carriers' carts are moving slowly out countrywards. The ponderous church has a rural look. Or, as we pass out of Harley Street into the Marylebone Road, what an abrupt change! We are in a suburb at once: here are villas walled round, such as Dickens's house, presenting large gardens, and a sort of " high- road," with trees, and other rural accompaniments. With this we may contrast the little "shabby-genteel " streets of Mayfair, which have their Digitized by Microsoft® VIEW FROM PRIMROSE HILL Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® pster- 1 L l'M-:i I. PARK ROAD LONDON SUBURBS 9 psychological meaning; for a poor district promoted into fashion signifies houses on valuable sites. Dickens and Thackeray, who understood their London psychology well, have interpreted these odd concatenations. And who will say that there is not a distinct physiognomy in the dreary, chilling lines of Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and their neighbours, where the houses have, as it were, been "run" in the one mould? There seems some fitness in the one per- petual succession of gloomy doctors' parlours and patients' rooms, where sentences of life and death are being waited for all the day long. So with the region of the great squares — Grosvenor, Berkeley, and Portman — there is a tone of solid, old-fashioned state, and every second house seems a mansion. How curious too are the feelings aroused by the Bayswater region ! Here we find wastes of " compo " mansions, terraces and squares in abundance, and trees also. There is a general pretentious- ness — from the uniform, stuc- coed balustrades, the languid trees, and dusty foliage. " Middle - class " folk live in i m f .*"- 'I )■";-. 'I ' ■■ RNHEAD ROAD, SI'. PETICR' Digitized by Microsoft® IO LONDON SUBURBS these would-be palaces and terraces. Mixed up invariably with this affected state, we find streets, rows of flashy shops, and all the vulgar incidents of traffic, omnibuses, carts, etc. Then, turning to " Queen Anne's land " by Knightsbridge, we seem to find ourselves transported to some Dutch city: every house ruby red, each competing with its neighbour in fantastic shapes and outlines. Or we take a flight to Westminster, to that street of monstrous, beetling houses, — Victoria Street, — all chambers and offices and hotels, signifying but a temporary occupation and a flitting to the country or suburbs when the day's work is done. Or we may hurry to the modern district of South Kensington, with its palatial mansions, somewhat out of fashion and deserted, but which sprang up at a season of " inflation," when every one was, or fancied he was, growing rich. Now it is found that small but roomy houses are "your only wear." Or Ave may flit to that forlorn district beyond Islington where there are rows upon rows of yellow villas, stuccoed, well smirched, stained, and decayed, and with a spurious air of the country — villas that had seen better days, but now inex- pressibly forlorn and decayed, patched and stained. It adds a piquancy to our London promenades to note the many survivals of the old suburban character, which are to be encountered in even the most urban districts. VAUXHALL BRIDGE Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SUBURBS i i Habit soon helps to detect readily these marks and tokens. The familiar Primrose Hill, that breezy playground, is now encompassed by streets and houses, though it commands a pleasant view of the northern heights. It is difficult to realise that in this very public place, once so secluded and free from interruptions, what was the last duel in England was fought, on a spot then known as Chalk Farm. Again, in the rather rustic- looking street Davies Street, close to Berkeley Square, we may note a gloomy, well-grimed man- sion, set at an angle to the street, with a court or scrap of garden in front, Bourdon House, as it is called ; it was once a part of the Old Manor House, a country seat of the opulent Davies, the lord of the soil. It therefore once stood on the country road ; and here are Farm Street and Hill Street close by. The Jesuit church has for forty years and more stood in what is literally a stable lane, or mews, rudely paved. A quaintly minded Lon- doner seeking to appreciate better his loved city once con- ceived the idea, old established resident as he was, of travel- ling through London, and of sojourning in the different quarters so as to participate in their tone and flavour. With this view he first put up at CLUCK TOWEK, HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT Digitized by Microsoft® I 2 LONDON SUBURBS the vast foreign -looking hotel on the Embankment, from whose window as he rose in the morning: he could see the whole river life : the barges moving languidly by, the flitting steamers. Thence he moved on to the huge Midland Hotel at St. Pancras, a little city in itself, full of animation and life, situated high in the air, in a sort of Islington bustle ; and whence he saw London, through the eyes, as it were, of innumerable northerners who had come to town. What a bustle from converging tram lines ! what a fine air, and splendid views of the heights of Hampstead and Highgate and the country generally ! Thence he passed to the Great Western Hotel at Paddington, where he found a world of another complexion ; the tame yellow houses of Westbourne and other terraces being close by, with a curious general stagnation : these side by side with a "huckstering" neighbourhood, streets and shops of a poorish sort. Later he sat him down at one of the curious hostelries in Charterhouse Square, where he seemed to be in an ancient country town, or in one of those inns of fiction where say Mr. Squeers GIPSY KOAD, LOWEU NORWOOD Digitized by Microsoft® I£U H1GHGATE FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SUBURBS IS might have alighted. There were other houses of which he made trial, such as the Arundel, the resort of country sight-seers, and where he lived, as it were, close to the roar of the Strand. lie may have found the most original experience of all at the Covent Garden Hotel, situated in the market, and finally at the great " Metropole " hard by Trafalgar Square. No one who had not en- joyed these experi- ences, he protested, could have any idea of what the great city really was. Yet the unobservant resident who has known his London for a life will take little note of these dramatic differences. The growth and absorption of territory has been as sudden as it is rapid. There is many an " old inhabitant " whose father must have " minded the time" when London was a huge detached city, the country coming up to its gates; it is only within average living memory that almost every rural outlet has been closed up by buildings. Towards the end of last century the Duke of Bedford's great mansion, which filled IN BATTERSEA 1'ARK Digitized by Microsoft® i6 LONDON SUBURBS the northern side of Bloomsbury Square, had a clear uninterrupted view of Hampstead and Highgate. The open country too came up close by Portland Road and all the district round. "The Foundling" hard by, when built lay really in the country. It is more astonishing to think that there must be people now alive who recall the time when the Regent's Park was a waste of pasture land, and its terraces were not. A significant proof of the gradual absorption by London City of all adjoining suburbs is found in the number of " High Streets " which Ave find in all quarters of the city : such for instance as High Street, Marylebone. This was, of course, the main and chief street in each suburb. There are, indeed, over a score of streets so named. But, as has been often said, a sort of history of London could be roughly- evolved from the very names of its streets. An idea of how tremendous is this ever-growing, ever-absorbing London may be conceived from some figures which are of a startling kind. It contains some five millions of inhabitants, increased every year by over fifty thousand souls. The value of its houses, property, etc., is rated at some thirty millions of pounds annually, and its trade, import and export, at two hundred millions. Nearly seven hundred thousand houses and buildings are spread over some seven hundred square miles, and there are — and this is truly astonishing — three thousand miles of streets. Four millions of sheep and nine millions of poultry and game are consumed in the year ! A casual glance at the map issued "'tis sixty years since" — not a very great stretch backwards — shows us how this ■, BELGRAVE SQUARE Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SUBURBS 17 g" 1 A HOUSE IN BEDFORD PARK Teat London has expanded with leaps and bounds, as it were. Then, Brompton, Chel- sea, Pimlico, and Knights- bridge, were comparatively uncovered by streets ; Ken- nington, Vauxhall, and South- wark, were open to Deptford. Poplar, or the Isle of Dogs, was a comparative blank ; so were Bethnal Green, Hackney, Islington, Camden and Kentish Towns. Islington, Pentonville, Hackney, Bethnal Green, were each crossed by a road or street, while Paddington and Bayswater offered stretches of territory with but few houses and fewer streets. London City, like British rule in India, has drawn all. But it is the southern side of the river that offers the most extraordinary contrast to what it presents in our time. In 1833 the only portion that was laid out in streets and houses and might be considered " town " was the portion comprised within the curve of the river, and bounded by a line drawn from Lambeth Palace by Xewington, and ending at Bermondsey. Outside this " pale," as we might call it, all lay open. Beginning where Battersea Park now is, we find a great waste, formerly known as Batter- npp' ADDISON ROAD, KENSINGTON Digitized by Microsoft® i8 LONDON SUBURBS IN THE BROADWAY, HAMMERSMITH sea Fields, where " the Duke " fought a political duel without being interrupted, and whither he rode out as to the country. We pass by " Nine Elms," leaving the Vauxhall gardens on our left. Between the gardens and Lambeth Palace was an open tract, which spread away to Newington Butts and Kennington, whose "common" wasthen unenclosed. Another tract, comprising Walworth and Rotherhithe, led on to Deptford and Greenwich. It is extraordinary to contrast with this the densely populated streets that in a short space of time have since spread over these regions. Again, the abolition or destruction of Brompton, its fair grounds, villas, and market gardens, with the creation of the new Kensingtons, dates only from the Exhibition year, 1 85 1 . To the Crystal Palace we owe the creation of the great Norwood and Sydenham districts ; while " Belgravia," with its streets and fine squares, was laid out within living memory, as well as the newer and less' aristocratic district that stretches from Buckingham Palace Road down to the Digitized by Microsoft® THE BROOK, BARNES COMMON Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SUBURBS 21 river. Russell Square, once sacred to lawyers, was laid out so recently as 1804, which shows how rapid has been the growth of the great city. The picturesque little Queen Square in Bloomsbury, which has its side to the north uncovered by houses, testifies significantly to this vicinity of the country ; for the space was purposely left vacant so that, as an old writer says, the denizens of the square might command a full view of the " beautiful landscape " and the northern heights. And Mr. Wheatley tells us that in certain streets of this district the northern side is a story or two lower, so as not to interrupt their opposite neighbours' view. We could imagine nothing more interesting than a series of these comparative maps on the same scale, showing the gradual increase of London territory. One of only thirty or forty years ago set beside one of the present day would excite almost as much astonishment as the old one of Aggas put beside a great railway map of to-day. <&£- COX 5 AVIiNUIi, hVIH-.NHAM Digitized by Microsoft® 22 LONDON SUBURBS One of the best topographical pictures of the London suburbs over one hundred years ago is Dodsley's account, which is welcome for its natural, unaffected style, and the tone of admiring awe with which the wonders of the town are depicted. Were we to impress a stranger with an idea of the grandeur and splendour of this London of ours, we should lead him — not to the heart of the City, or to the Bank, Charing Cross, Fleet Street, or to Rotten Row, or to the " Church Parade " in Hyde Park of a Sunday morning — we should place him at the middle of Westminster Bridge with his face to St. Paul's. There he would see the long line of gigantic buildings stretching away on the left like palaces ; the new red police office ; the Whitehall Terrace, with Somerset House beyond ; the huge hotels ; the great Embankment below, with its richly verdant belt of plane trees ; the light and not unpleasing railway bridge ; the noble Waterloo Bridge, worthy of old Rome ; the other bridges beyond ; St. Paul's and the City spires in the distance ; while below are the ever-flitting steamboats, the barges, following the majestic bends of the great river. Then we turn and see just behind us the luxuriantly Gothic pile of the Houses of Parliament, with the terraces and pinnacles ; the scattered, cheerful- looking buildings of the great hospital on the other side of the river ; while to our right are the converg- ing streets at Palace Yard, — one of the busiest quar- ters of London, — with the fine Clock Tower, and a glimpse of the Park be- yond. All this combination suggests an idea of power, HAM STREET, HAM Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SUBURBS 23 APSLEY HOUSE, HYDE PARK CORNER traffic, and magnificence that no other city can furnish. This dramatic scene is likely to escape many who are too en- grossed to pause on their way. and who hurry across the bridge in pursuit of their busi- ness. And all has been but the growth of the last twenty or thirty years. It is curious to contrast with this bustling- picture the reflections of the great poet who stood on the older bridge years ago, and expressed his feelings in a famous sonnet : Earth hath not anything to show more fair. The city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning : silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. A tranquil, almost rural scene. At that time — well-nigh a century ago — the busiest portion of the river was beyond London Bridge, where, in the once proverbial phrase, " the forest of masts " was to be seen. "Forest of funnels " is now more appropriate; the masts have retreated to the innumerable docks. Words- worth then saw but a sedgy foreshore, lined with shanties, sheds, and small warehouses : there too stood Inigo Jones's THE WANH WANDSWORTH Digitized by Microsoft® 24 LONDON SUBURBS Water Gate at the edge of the water, washed by the stream ; and the terrace or " mall " which then touched the river. No suspension or railway bridge was at Hungerford Stairs. The Adelphi Terrace, then new and conspicuous, was admired as a sort of monumental structure, and there was no fringe of vast buildings between the river and the shadowy outlines of St. Paul's. mtfer ffe. TWICKENHAM Digitized by Microsoft® N0TT1NG HILL SQUARE CHAPTER II LONDON INNER SUBURBS Promenade by Pall Mall and Piccadilly — The two Palaces — The Albany — An oasis in Audley Street — London gradually rebuilt — The so-called "Queen Anne" style — London squares — " Cadogan Land " — Suburbs of Knightsbridge and Brompton. In our promenade we shall first wander through the familiar districts of St. James's, Piccadilly, Mayfair, Portland Place, and Regent's Park, in which, fanciful as it may seem, may be traced many notes and touches of a suburban character which have never been effaced. These might be called the inner London suburbs. London owes much to its parks — not in their capacity of "lungs," but because such welcome spaces have effectually prevented that close crowding of streets and houses. But for the Green Park and St. James's Park, we can well fancy what a mass of E Digitized by Microsoft® 26 LONDON INNER SUBURBS buildings, and greater mass of inhabitants, would have cumbered the ground. Returning thence, we shall visit the northern suburbs — within about ten miles of London ; after these the southern suburbs ; finally follow the course of the river to Kingston, by Kew, Richmond, and Hampton Court. The imposing pile of the Houses of Parliament is said to be the largest Gothic building in existence. Many now alive can recall the great conflagration of the old Houses, which occurred in 1834, nearly sixty years ago. Interesting as it was on account of its traditions, it was so clumsy and inconvenient a building that it must, sooner or later, have been swept away. The old house where the Speaker lived was then a high -roofed, chateau sort of building, something like the Deanery of St. Paul's. The New Palace displays some blemishes, owing to fits of economy on the part of the Government. The towers have been cut short, the design for enclosing the palace yards has been set aside, and the propor- tions of the interior spoiled by lowering the ceilings. It has been thought that the terrace by the river ought to have been raised to the level of the bridge, «* KINGSTON BRIDGE Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON INNER SUBURBS .IP- contrast to all around it. Old houses, rather dilapidated, all subdivided into offices, moulder away about it. Squalid streets branch away from it. Here it was that Ralph Niekleby gave handsome parties to his noble clients. But it is difficult to conceive that only some forty years ago it was a retired square of private houses where "genteel" persons, and notably the late Cardinal Wiseman, lived. Leicester Square otters a mdlange of interesting associations. Saville House was standing not very many years ago; here George II. had lived and George III. had grown up. Here, too, lived a triad of painters, Thornhill, Hogarth, and Reynolds — the latter's studio being now Messrs. Puttick's auction rooms — and O'Connor, an- other artist. The Countess Guiccioli and Kosciusko were here for a short time. The vicissitudes of the square before its rescue by Baron Grant were degrading. The equestrian statue was long shored up, grotesquely decorated with sweeping-brushes, etc.; the enclosure was used as a deposit for rubbish, and occasionally for panoramas. At last Baron Grant purchased it, and, after adorning it suitably, presented it to the city. Returning now to Piccadilly, we come to Park Lane, a sort of London "Avenue des Champs Elysdes." Vet some of the great mansions here, belonging to noblemen of vast wealth, seem " poorish " enough. One wonders why they have not been rebuilt in greater state, and in a style more worthy of the site. The question of leases, etc., of course stands in m^- KNIGHTSBEIDGE BARRACKS Digitized by Microsoft® 66 LONDON INNER SUBURBS THE WANDI.E, WANDSWORTH the way. The fountain, in spite of the three poets clustered awkwardly together, and always dry, is not a thing of beauty, and might be wished away in some more retired site. It is a curious fact that scarcely a third of the houses are officially in Park Lane ; these are really in Park Street and Seamore Place, the backs of the houses only looking into the " lane." Every one of taste will deplore the new, rather unfortunate arrange- ment at Hyde Park Corner. The arch might surely have been left where it stood without interfering with the traffic, and the elegant entrance to the Park, designed for a narrow street, has now lost its proportions, being made to look on a vast triangular Place that bends and slopes down a hill. Through the colonnade we have a glimpse of the Achilles — the rather odd testimonial of the "ladies of England" to the Iron Duke, Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON INNER SUBURBS 67 whose house stands close by. and in front of his house his latest statue, guarded by four of his warriors. So recently as Lady Morgan's day, Knig'htsbridge and Albert Gate were almost as rustic and countryfied as parts of Hammersmith Road. The little Albert Gate Terrace is a survival of these times. Each has its garden in front, evidence of its suburban character ; and a tiny one behind, with a view of the undu- lating park and its trees beyond. These quaint, interesting houses, which suggest Church Row at Clapham, have but short tenure of existence. The monstrous pile beside them, " The Mansions," gives significant warning that their place is wanted. Further on we come to the handsome Knightsbridge Barracks, a goodly specimen of archi- tecture on the Park side, monumental, and a decided improvement to the neighbourhood. Beside it stood until recently a huge riding school, which has been levelled, perhaps to give place to the irrepressible " flats." The gloomy Lowther Lodge, architects affirm, though few would imagine it, to be a very fine specimen of their craft. The great Albert Hall, more than any structure in London, excites the wonder of foreigners. We have heard of the delight and surprise of Verdi when he entered it to conduct his own work. It will be noted that the building stands quite awry to the high- way ; the reason whereof is this curious one : that it was originally intended to divert the road and bring it close to the Albert Memorial, the Hall being de- signed so as to run parallel to the new line of road. The "Albert Mansions" adjoining is a stately mass of brickwork. On the site of the Albert Hall stood the *- COTTAGES AT MOKTLAKE Digitized by Microsoft® 68 LONDON INNER SUBURBS old Gore House, erst the scene of the d'Orsay-Blessington revels, the lady holding- for some years a sort of salon, with gatherings of all sorts and conditions of persons. The luckless pair were swept away in a torrent of debt, and not very long after their mansion was swept away too. Many will recall the time, not so long since, when Brompton ,U "\ ivt'J-4 lis A 1 tJK-i&s -PVf>SfiWirn7 KENSINGTON PALACE — SOUTH FRONT offered quite a " countryfied " suburban air. You had to " drive out " to Brompton, and there found trees and grass, and pretty winding roads, lined with walls, behind which were gardens and villas. One scrap of the old Brompton is to be seen in the lawn in front of the South Kensington Museum, a patch of grass richly green, "fat" and unkempt, dotted with a few ancient trees. Another survival is the quaint Brompton Square hard by the Oratory. No wonder it was dear to the theatrical world, who were glad to come here for " country air." Miss Pope, Braham, Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON INNER SUBURBS /i Mrs. Davenport, Yates, Billington and Incledon, Catalani, William Farren (the elder), Listen, Planche, George Oilman, and the Wigans, were all Bromptonians. The well-known Oratory is the finest and most richly adorned of modern London churches. It is almost cathedral-like, with its dome and transepts ; its sanctuary, all gorgeous with incrusted marbles, gilding, frescoes, and oak work. The taste displayed, however, falls somewhat short of its magnificence. The side altar, which was purchased " for a song " from some suppressed Italian church, is a perfect marvel of the old Floren- tine art of inlaid marble work. The ritual is here carried out in stately and imposing fashion, and the music is of the first order. Kensington has still some- thing of the air of an old- fashioned quarter. Not so many vears ago this old " court suburb " offered something of the tone of Richmond, when a few red Queen \nne houses, such as Kensington House, were standing. Even now Church Street, Kensington Square, and Edwardes Square re- tain this antique air. Kensington Palace, with its gardens, seems associ- ated with placid repose and a tranquil old fashion. The 3Bi*- HIGH STREET, KENSINGTON Digitized by Microsoft® /2 LONDON INNER SUBURBS MARBLE ARCH building itself has a cheer- ful tone and is pleasingly irregular ; all its wings, guard-houses, stables, and dependencies, such as the banqueting- room, have a welcome capriciousness. It shows the sign-manual of Wren, who altered and beautified it. Originally a nobleman's mansion, it had belonged to Finch, Earl of Nottingham, who was Lord Chancellor ; and from him William III., who fancied the place much, bought it. It might be said there are few houses so charged with royal memories and associations ; indeed all its gloomy chambers recall some dramatic scene. Three sovereigns died here in succession, Mary, W T illiam, and Anne, each demise being attended with striking circumstances ; while George II. and Frederick, Prince of Wales, also expired in the Palace. Most of George III.'s family lived, at one time or another, within its walls: the Duke of Sussex, in the midst of his great collection of books and Bibles ; and his second wife, the Duchess of Inverness, who survived him for many years. The most interesting association is furnished by the residence of the Duke of Kent, her Majesty the Oueen having been born in the old rooms, and living there almost without interruption until she came to the throne. It is said that her toys, work-boxes, etc., are still to be seen strewn on the tables, just as she left them. One of those curious customs which are kept up in London, and whose existence is often unsuspected, is associated with a little grassy en- closure at the south-west corner of the Palace. This is the annual sheep- Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON INNER SUBURBS 73 shearing. Thousands of sheep are brought from Scotland and distributed over London wherever grazing can be obtained. After the shearing, the sheep are kept awhile in the park for fattening, and thence gradually find their way to the butchers' shops. The shearing, it may be conceived, is an animated, picturesque scene. Addison Road and the district round it is not a very enlivening quarter. There is an air of tame insipidity; but not many reflect that it takes its name from our great essayist. livery one who is interested in the memories of great men and great eras will find himself stirred as he wanders by Holland House and Holland Park and Campden Hill. Addison died in the fine old mansion inhabited by Lord Holland, his eccentric lady, and their coterie. His statue is to be seen through the railings. Macaulay wrote and flourished at Holly Lodge, not five minutes' walk distant. We relish the associations, artistic and others, so plentiful in the district — Mr. Marcus Stone, Mr. Fildes, and others have their studios in Melbury Road ; in Holland Park Road, close by, is Vrp -~— -~ - '>T. : ^.I'P"* •■ ; T*^ "iy'4 EDGWAKE ROAD L Digitized by Microsoft® 74 LONDON INNER SUBURBS Sir Frederick Leighton's charming house, a sort of rus-in-urbe. There is a pleasingly sylvan lane which leads from the Hammersmith Road to Campden Hill, and which is known as "Lord Holland's Walk." We might fancy that we were in some rural walk miles away from London. Following the road from Notting Hill Gate, we find ourselves in the great Bayswater district, at Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove, and Westbourne Park, which offers much of the suburban character, with its " Institutes" and entertainments for self-improvement, to say nothing of the Universal Provider who reigns here and has innumerable subjects. On the Hammersmith Road we may note that vast, dull, red pile — red walls, red roof — which is St. Paul's School. In course of years, when the tints will have toned down, the effect will be more harmonious. ACHILLES STATUE Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® - ■ - *^-Kgr .-frtwW-v HAMPSTEAD HEATH, LOOKING ACROSS VALE OF HEALTH TO HIGHGATE Digitized by Microsoft® - __£ _ IN CLISSOU) < >K NEYVINGTON PARK CHAPTER III LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS Oddities associated with Portland Place — The Regent's Park — Suburb of St. John's Wood and Marylebone — Dickens — Islington — The New River. Having thus accomplished our promenade, we once more take our flight back to the point whence we started, and follow a new- path northwards by Marylebone and Regent Street : by Islington, Euston Road, Primrose Hill, on to Hampstead. By a happy chance, the park bounds this quarter, and lias thus secured free play of fresh air, otherwise the ground had by this time been assuredly built over and covered with the usual squalid streets and tenements which distinguish the London suburb. Digitized by Microsoft® 78 LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS At the top of Regent Street— one of the busiest and most brilliant quarters of London — we find ourself almost touching the suburb. It is a peculiarity of London City that whatever direction we may take we are sure to encounter some "oddity" or curio, something whereby hangs a very eccentric tale. Thus if we walk past the Langham Hotel, we shall note Nash's fantastic church, the wonder and puzzle of foreigners : an extinguisher, sharp as a needle, has pierced through a cylindrical body ; a small temple is placed on the top of a larger one, and Corinthian pillars on Ionic ones. Some trees on the right denote the former garden of Foley House, which building the Duke made a freehold, in return for permission to build Portland Place. This latter does not follow, as might be expected, the line of Regent Street ; and this, it is said, was contrived by Nash, the architect, who had quarrelled with Sir John Langham, whose house stood about here. It was claimed for Portland Place that it was one of the finest and KEGENT S PARK — A PLEASANT HOUR Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS 79 S^r CAMBKIDGE TERRACE, REGENT b PARK widest streets in Europe, the fact being it was not one half the width of Sackville Street in Dublin. Another account asserted it to be the " most regular and spacious in the world!" It is 123 feet across. Most of it was the work of the Brothers Adam, and it exhibits their elegfant touch in many points. Duchess Street, Duke Street, Bentinck Street, Bolsover Street, Portland Street, are all compli- mentary to the lord of the soil. Another curio of the district, and which we dare swear is unsuspected by many, is the St. Katherine's Hospital, close by in the park, a foundation for four needy "ladies" and four needy "gentlemen." The Regent's Park seems scarcely to be accepted seriously, being held to be a rather " poorish " or feeble attempt at a park. Indeed, its rather languishing meads contrast with the healthy flourishing grasses of Hyde Park. Seventy years ago it was simply a large tract of pasture land, which was en- closed under the Regent's reign, and laid out in the rather theatrical terraces with which we are so familiar. It is curious to read of the CHESTER TERRACE, REGENT S PAR. Digitized by Microsoft® So LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS admiration and almost rapture with which these structures were saluted. They were the beginnings of a new order of architecture. One admirer said that "the long morning of a fine day may be pleasantly spent in making a tour of this charm- ing spot. Its best approach is to turn to the left, under the beautiful Ionic colonnade of Park Crescent, surveying the tasteful plantation of Park Square." We are also in- structed how to obtain "a fine view" of the new church, etc. In short, the delight and satisfaction of that time con- trast oddly with our indiffer- ence. The various terraces, Cambridge, Hanover, York (" which more resembles the residence of a sovereign prince "), and Cumberland Terrace, most ambitious of all, the huge sculpture on the pediment, " one of the largest in the kingdom, being by Mr. Bubb," are all as imposing as stucco and paint can make them. There are also villas, standing in their own grounds, scattered through the park ; the tenants must feel as though they were living in the country. At Cloucester Terrace there is a pleasant glimpse of the Regent's Canal pursuing its muddy course, yet winding not ungracefully. REGENTS PAKK CANAL, FROM ONE OF THE BRIDGES Digitized by Microsoft® ■ n—imnri i i^ . ,V }J «*?, '*£ / '»J irv CROUCH END, FROM MUSWELL HILT. M Digitized by Microsoft® 38.' Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS 83 Some of the canals that trail through London present themselves often as a surprise to the explorer. Others, too, have often a certain picturesque effect. You look clown from some airy little bridge and see it meandering" on below you between its green banks. More grim, grimy, and practical-looking are other canals, say by Paddington, lined by factories and warehouses. Not unpicturesque is the entrance S3*. GRAND JUNCTION CANAL lock to the little canal at Grosvenor Road, and which wends its way mysteriously up to Ebury Bridge. Londoners are the most incurious, of people, and there are quarters of their city, outside the one in which they reside, to which they never resort, or never have seen — unless drawn by business or pleasure. We suspect that there are few who are tempted out to St. JoJufs J Food, save for the purpose of visiting some friend. And yet this district has Digitized by Microsoft® s 4 LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS a novelty of its own, of some summer evening", when a dinner is given at one of the innumerable villas. Its pleasant gardens, strictly walled round, on which open the inviting rooms, seem to be miles away from the Marble Arch. In these gardens is many an old tree saved from destruction. In one, in Avenue Road, that we wot of, the church tower rises at the bottom, from the trees, and the whole effect is as of the vicar's garden in some vil- lage. We may wander for hours past these villas, along the Maida Vale and Grove Road, still confronted by high walls, while we speculate what sort of persons live within, and whether they enjoy their seclu- sion. The quarter we live in often materially influences our character, profession, and habits of life. It would be impossible for, say, a bachelor who has removed from the pleasant bustle of St. James's Street to take up his abode here permanently without, after due time, giving way to its influence. He would become gradually retiring and silent in his ways, as he would take his walk daily along the somewhat mono- tonous roads. The other London quarters would appear far away, the object of a special expedition deliberately planned. Much the same IX REGENT S PARK Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS 35 feeling, we suspect, is induced by long residence in the neighbouring Regent's Park. There must be a sad sort of placidity engendered in the denizens from perpetually gazing on the monotonous expanse of stucco terraces, and the stunted trees and shrubs and the un- healthy-looking grass. Thus, walking in the Regent's Park does not seem like walking in Hyde Park. There, there is a genuine fresh tone, but the other seems somewhat of a sham park, reflecting the arti- ficial taste of its illustrious founder. As we have seen, we can pass from, say, the monotonous Harley Street into a sort of country suburb. The very name of the Marylebone Road, like the Edgware Road, sug- gests its old uses as a sub- urban highway. Here we find enclosed villas and gardens. Close to this Marylebone Road is Devonshire Terrace, where at No. 1 we find a sort of villa in an enclosure, the early residence of Charles Dickens when his prosperity was increasing. As we look on this old-fashioned, faded tenement, there rise up before us all the incidents of those early days of enjoyment and good spirits, the brilliant theatricals, the " Humphrey's Clock," when this truly delightful being THE NEW RIVER. GREEN LANES, FINSEURY Digitized by Microsoft® 86 LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS was attracting all eyes and all hearts. Since then the old villa has seen many changes, and is now incorporated with the adjoining convent. From Devonshire Terrace we flit away to Kensington, where, at the foot of the palace gardens, we stand before that well -designed brick house, more truly " Queen Anne " or Williamite than any of the modern pretentious edifices which assume the name. With its green slated roof and balustrade, and modest, serviceable design, its shading trees already well grown, it forms a pleasing object. Many an American is found standing before it, the more inquisitive demanding admission. This is the house that Thackeray, in the days of his prosperity, built for himself. We have only to take a flight to Covent Garden and there survey the little workshop, as it might be styled, of the first of these literary " masters," beside whom the litterateurs of our time seem to dwindle. It is difficult to resist evoking these ghostly but interesting- memories. Facing the Lyceum por- tico, in Wellington Street, there has stood for some thirty years or more a bow- windowed little structure, prominent yet half retiring, of good architectural pro- portion in its modest way, and having a cosy, inviting LIVEKI'OOL ROAD, [SUNGTON Digitized by Microsoft® WVM^W^ -dim; "J ; 'Wfft "W *J& IBr^v IN THE MEADOWS, FRIERN EARNET Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS 89 air. Beside it is the stage entrance of the Gaiety Theatre, with a flaunting' canvas transparency overhead, and for which its little neigh- bour has now proved to have been a Naboth's vineyard. A year ago scaffoldings were reared about it ; the bow -windows bricked up ; its " in'ards " transformed. By and by it is likely to pass away unnoticed, or be absorbed into its garish neighbour, without remark ; yet no London "Old Mortality" will see its condition without a pang, for it used to be the old original "Office of Household Words," that once favourite "weekly," read by all as the inspired utterance of the gifted editor. His sole attraction ennobled the cheap "weekly," — "price twopence," or in its " monthly parts, price nine- pence " ; and at the railway- bookstalls the traveller laid out his twopence without loss of self-respect. Islington, more than any other northern suburb of London, retains an original character, and has a kind of old-world or old-fashioned note. At its theatre, when there has been some singular attraction, many persons of high quality have rushed from the west-end to witness the show. At night-time Islington, about the regions of the " Angel " and the Caledonian Road, has the HAMPSTEAD HEATH, BATHING POND l.\ DISTANCE Digitized by Microsoft® 90 LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS IN THE CALEDONIAN ROAD look of a foreign town, so garish is it, with its lights, and jingling trams, and enor- mous crowds. Two old monu- ments, as they may be called, lend it a curious interest, the New River and the Canon- bury Tower. The New River, now close on 300 years old, is really a picturesque little conduit, which meanders delightfully all the way from Hertfordshire to London, on its forty miles' course. A little spring close to Ware — of "Great-Bed" memory — is its source, whence it flows into a basin, thence proceeds on its way to town, tapping the river Lea, the scene of old Isaac's Complete Angler. To track this pretty runnel, which you could often almost jump across, passing through Islington and Canonbury, thence on by Newington and Clissold Park, through many fair meadows and shaded avenues, calling up, as we walk, the old Sir Hugh Myddleton, would be pleasant entertainment for a summer's day. And a pleasant hour could surely be spent rambling through the deserted chambers of old Canonbury Tower, whose finely carved panels will excite admiration. We find it with some difficulty, after wandering among the de- serted terraces and faded squares of the CANONBURY TOWER Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON NORTHERN SUBURBS 9i district. These latter are of curious shapes and patterns, in corners and perched on hills. There is a glorious view from the terrace of the old tower, which seems still haunted by the ghosts of Oliver Goldsmith, George Daniel, and Washington Irving, who lodged there. AVENUE ROAD, ST. JOHN S WOOL) Digitized by Microsoft® MS«g 4 , :#M*%mww- ■-■*'■■'':■-■ ■'■'■'.: ,i" LEG OF MUTTON POND, HAMPSTEAD CHAPTER IV THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS Hampstead and Highgate — Literary Inns — Caen Wood — Highgate Woods — Muswell Hill. There are many pleasant and varied paths by which we gain what have been called the Northern Heights of London, and what are, besides, the most original and enjoyable of its suburbs. By the Regent's Park, the "Swiss College"; by Primrose Hill, Kilburn, and Haverstock Hill, we can make our way to these breezy ascents, from which there opens out for us quite a new and unexpected rustic country. No suburb is more grateful and more of a surprise to the "jaded Londoner" than these heights of Hampstead and Highgate. In spite of changes and the inevitable rebuilding, they retain their charm Digitized by Microsoft® HARROW AND "WELSH HARP," FROM HAMPSTEAD HEATH Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS 95 of old fashion. There is a steady gentle ascent from the city ; with every step the pedestrian finds himself in purer and more exhilarating air ; while the well-wooded heights, crowned by the green copper spire of the church, seem always inviting him on. At the foot of Hampstead High Street, by the Fire Station, two steep ascents, equally picturesque, lie before him, which wind upwards in irregular fashion ; both lead to the breezy Heath. The one to the left is an original " bit," from its rural and straggling character. Well-shaded alleys and lanes — "walks " — steal away to the right and to the left ; there are old corners, and foot- paths lined with ancient trees, hanging some twenty or thirty feet over the road ; bits of old brick wall, mil- dewed and mouldering, yet sound, over which peep the eaves of some quaint old house set awry and at hostile angles. What shall be said of the lanes that invite us astray, and bring us back to the point of starting in a not unwelcome perplexity? every- thing is " up hill " and " down dale " ; there are se- questered shaded corners. Many indeed are the attrac- tions of this good old Hamp- stead, whose charm for a century and more writers have never been weary of WILLESDEN LANE, KILBl'KN Digitized by Microsoft® 9 6 THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS ST. EDMUND S TERRACE. PRIMROSE HILL singing. It is astonishing how its irregular graces have escaped so long without alter- ation or destruction. The names of the houses and quarters are picturesque and piquant, such as Grove Hill, Frognal, the Hermitage, Bell-Moor House. We have an abundance of "Walks" and " Lanes " and " Mounts " and the like : there are "Well Walk," "Justice Bench Walk," "Heath Mount," "Squire's Mount," " Evergreen Hill," " Holly Hill," which correspond fittingly with the localities. So conservative is the artistic feeling here, that the modern attempts at house -building exhibit the antique feeling. Witness " Fitzjohn's Avenue" — a picturesque mixture of greenery and warm red — while even the ascent lends a charm. Judge Bench Walk or " Justice Walk " is a spot charm- ingly sequestered on the " Upper Ter- race," where you can sit in the shade and enjoy the superb view, across the rolling champaign country, all the way to Harrow — a view that recalled Italy to Leigh Hunt. The tradition runs that during the plague the judges were driven here to hold their courts. Close by, £&=■ on the highest tableland near London, BELSJZE AVENUE, HA VEKSTOCK HILL Digitized by Microsoft® HARROW- ON -THE -HILL, FROM THE MEADOW'S O Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® T H E N O R Til E R N HEIGH T S 99 stands the " Jack Straw's Castle " to which Dickens and Forster used to ride when out for "a shoemaker's holiday," as they called it — a comfortable hostelry and public - house combined. There are indeed three Hamp- stead Inns which are bound up with literary life and associa- tions, and almost within sight of each other. On the right, at the corner of Well Walk, we note an antique but substantial dwelling- house, encircled by rusted walls, with fair grounds within, and fine old trees, beeches and cedars. This was the former " Flask," which no one of sensibility can contemplate without a pang, for he recalls the painfully t a, (•■ WELL "WALK, H AMPSTEAD ■"" ' ,. '&*- MTZJOIINb AVENUE, IIAMI'MEAD Digitized by Microsoft® IOO THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS real fiction of the heroic Clarissa. It is said that Americans and Frenchmen often ask their way to " the Flask." Members of the Kit-Kat Club used to meet HOLLY HILL, HAMPSTEAD, SHOWING FIRE STATION li «1MJ ■■■■ HSb * I • BULL AND BUSH, HAMPSTEAD here, and from 177 1 to 1800 it was the re- sidence of the intemperate George Steevens, the great Shakespeare scholar, whose last moments, it was said, were as tempestuous as his life. On the descending slope behind Jack Straw's Castle was found, one February morning in 1856, the body of John Sadlier, a little silver cream-ewer beside him. This furnished Dickens with the Merdle episode in his Little Dorrit ; at Jack Straw's Castle the whole story is related in gruesome style. Passing the pleasantly inviting road, and fanned by breezes from both sides of the Heath, we come to "The Spaniards," the third "THE SPANIARDS, HAMPSTEAD Digitized by Microsoft® THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS 101 HEATH MOUNT, IIAMPSTEA1) literary inn, with its rural old - fashioned air and tea gardens — one of the Pickwickian inns whence Mrs. Bardell was de- coyed to town in charge of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg's clerk. But every road of Hampstead is charged with interesting memories. Here lived Blake, Linnell, Con- stable, Romney, Copley Fielding, Midler, Morland, Landseer, and Stanfield. Before coming to "The Spaniards" we note an unpre- tending-looking villa, with very large windows and with an attenuated portico, bearing the name of Erskine House. Here Burke paid one of his last visits. There used to be a tunnel under the roadway (just as Dickens had one at Gads Hill), leading from the grounds on the other side, but this has been filled up. In a moment of caprice Erskine sold it to Lord Mansfield, and bought a barren estate in Sussex, where he set up a factory of brooms ! The eccentricities of his last days make melancholy reading. At Highgatc we find Rosslyn House, the residence of another great lawyer, Wed- derburn ; while a short walk 'JACK STKAW S CASTLE, HAMPSIEAD Digitized by Microsoft® io2 THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS leads us to the handsome mansion and estate of a third, greater than either, Lord Mansfield — Caen Wood or % Ken Wood. This fine and stately pile was built by one of the Adam brothers. No grounds near London are so '■~*TCT^3f59flKW?3S5JM* ?&* OLD COTTAGES, HAMPSTEAD inviting or rise and fall in such park- like undulations. Close by are Dartmouth Hill, Crouch End, and Hornsea. On the summit of the Heath, close to the pond, will be noted a large dwelling-house and gardens, which bear all the evidence of being intruders on the common. An attractive actress, Mrs. Lessingham, desiring to have a cottage on the Heath, obtained a grant from the lord of the manor ; but as this privilege could only be granted to copyholders, there was much litigation, which ended in favour of the lady. The old timbered " Hope Cottage," shown above, was once the abode of Blake. On nearly every common round London we shall notice some" intruder of this kind, who has " squatted," as it is called, and has thus acquired a title from not being dis- turbed. The lawless char- acter of these encroachments is inconceivable, and, but for the suddenly awakened vigil- ance of the public many years ago, there would now FROM DARTMOUTH I'AUK HILL Digitized by Microsoft® KINGSBURY Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS 105 .git— PERRIN'S COURT, HAMPSTEAD oppose. At Hampstead val- iant efforts have been made not only to secure, but to add to, this inviting shape of public property. One of the most de- lightful walks conceivable — health-improving too — leads round by Caen Wood to Highgate. The London tra- veller finds his affections divided between those two engaging places, and every visit enhances their charms. Here we find the Archway or be scarcely any fragments even of com- mon left. Some have completely dis- appeared, having been lawlessly enclosed and partitioned among neighbouring owners. A more insidious method was that of quiet encroachment, enlarging one's property by "taking in a strip" which was scarcely noticed, and which it was no one's particular business to A CORNER ON JIAMrSTEAD HEATH Digitized by Microsoft® io6 THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS ■ , ,s k\ '&■< ■■■$k'£* ■' ^fe. COTTAGE AT WEMBLEY Viaduct, originally constructed by a company for profit, and with a view of abolishing the enormous steep and heart-breaking hill. A tunnel was first attempted, but it fell in. There is an agreeably old-fashioned sensation in the descent of Highgate Hill, offering, too, such a variety of attractions, as we shall now see. First we note the open high-road behind us, with the fine view towards Hampstead, the :|jf||f expanse of open country charged with inspiring || breezes. On the right are IN THE HIGHGATE ROAD, HIGHGATE Digitized by Microsoft® THE BRENT, KINGSBURY Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS 109 £&r- IN l-'INbBUKY PARK a few quaint old mansions of ripe brick, each with its garden and trees and palings, and set down at all angles and picturesque irregularity. Half-way down is the old inn, "The Horns," where up to the beginning of this reign a pair of horns fixed on a stick was brought out, and the traveller for a fee sworn that " he would never kiss the maid when he could the mis- tress," with other burlesque engage- ments. The candidate was prompted to add the proviso " unless he liked her better" — a solemnity that was common to other places. Half-way up Highgate Hill is seen MUSWELL HILL Digitized by Microsoft® I IO ST. JAMES'S LAXE, MUSWELL HILL THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS the very striking Byzantine Church of St. Joseph's Retreat, with its fine grounds and towering dome — a land- mark seen afar off. Beside it are the interesting grounds of Lauderdale House, recently, through the generous action of Sir Sidney Waterlow, be- come a public park or garden. This is certainly the most attractive and original of all these enclosures, from its charming air of old fashion and variety; the mixture of wooding and grass and winding irregular -walks. There is nothing of the trim, painful formality which usually distinguishes the regular people's park. The old terraces, with their occasional flights of steps, are quaint and pleasing, and the great attraction is the old house itself, with its " wattle- and-dab " walls, colon- nade, and high roof, but in a sad state of decay The old well-panelled hall is interesting, and there is the legend of Nell Gwynne's residence and Charles II. 's visits — all possibly mythical. This, it has been settled, is to be levelled, and a brand-new trim keeper's house to be erected in its room. This seems much more satisfactory to the Council or Com- mittee which arranges such things. Such CKOUCII END Digitized by Microsoft® THE BRENT, NEAR KINGSBURY Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS 113 arc eager, always, to sweep away old remnants- — a new structure of bright, raw brick with stone dressings is thought more satisfactory. Yet a few hundred pounds would put the old structure in substantial repair, whereas the new edifice will cost some two or three thousand pounds. There are many, familiar with the conventional Highgate and Hampstead, dak mourn park hill who have scarcely suspected the existence of what are known as the Hi^herate AYoocls. These are charm- ingly wild and rustic, full of paths and byways where the explorer may readily lose him- self and fancy himself in some far-off forest. I shall never forget the delighted surprise I felt when first introduced to these attractive woods. The most interesting portion is oddly known as "Churchyard- Bottom Wood," which covers IN HIGHGATE WOOD Digitized by Microsoft® ii 4 THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS some fifty acres, and is wonderfully diversified in its character, being full of knolls and banks and hills, a rivulet winding' through it. An observer tells us that he has often distinguished the notes of nio-htinrales, with cuckoos and no less than fourteen species of birds, who live here unmolested. There is no sylvan walk to A LANE AT WEMBLEY compare with it, save, perhaps, the famous Pickwickian one through Cobham. Emerging from these delightful woods, we can reach Muswell Hill, the site chosen for the disastrous Alexandra Palace, destroyed by fire on its completion ; opened and closed at intervals, and apparently destined to bring ruin on those who venture to repair its fortunes. Yet its park and grounds are pleasing enough, and of great extent. But the cause of its failure is found in the mean and squalid houses which encompass it and crowd up to its very gates, thus differing Digitized by Microsoft® THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS i i S from the Crystal Palace, which has a fair enticing country all around it and elegant villas. It is well-nigh forgotten now that the familiar Finsbury Park was once part of the llornsey Woods, and that hard by was Highbury Barn dancing-gardens, as it were in the country, long since built over. Close by is Woodbury Down. Between Highgate and Harrow we find Wembley, a pretty and pastoral district, where an estate has recently been purchased by Sir E. Watkin, to be " developed " by the traffic of one of the suburban lines. The foundations of a new "Eiffel Tower " have been already laid on a lofty plateau, which, it is hoped, will presently be surrounded by villas and houses of the favourite pattern. m rill £1 " • -* ■ 11- ■ ■ t™ "-* « W88 ; - *djp- : $ffi*'*wP ■ 1b> )/<\. * & THATCHED COTTAGE, NEAK WEMBLEY Digitized by Microsoft® '"*!%%*/ W ,V*. FROM LEA BRIDGE CHAPTER V NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS Harrow Hill — The Barnets — "Watford Walks — " The Black Avenue " — Willesden — " The Vale of Middlesex'' — Northolt — Perivale — Kingsbury — Edgeware and Whitchurch — Canons and Wanstead — Epping Forest — Whitechapel and Stepney — Hackney Marshes. Taking the road northward from Hampsteacl, by Finchley, we make our way by an agreeable walk to the Barnets — Chipping Barnet, Friern Barnet, and East Barnet. At this place we come to a church, of vast antiquity, with old and modern additions, and approached by one of those always picturesque lych-gates, which displays the inscription' — " High and low, rich and poor together." The tower and the walls are almost invisible from the growth of masses of ivy. The village lies some half a mile away, in a sort of secluded valley. It boasts some Digitized by Microsoft® ] {§^r-^'- NORTHOLT Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS 119 timbered cottages, and a curious antique Inn. About Watford are found some of the most delightful and original country walks that can be conceived — such as that from Pinner. One of the strangest sensations is furnished by that pro- menade through what, I believe, is called the Black Avenue, and which is somewhere on the road to Rickmansworth, not very far from Watford — a portion of the road being completely arched over by huge trees uniting their matted branches overhead. Close to Watford — a rather quaint old town, which boasts an extraordinary LONG STREET, BARN ET- ON PARLIAMENT MUX Digitized by Microsoft® I 20 NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS number of inns, old and new, and of all sorts and condi- tions — is the fine Park of Cassiobury, which its gener- ous owner throws open freely to the natives, who, of summer evenings, swarm in through its stately gates and enjoy as though it were their hoensey own. The well-rusted man- sion, with its old-fashioned gardens, is seen in the distance. Delightful, too, is Bushey — where is Mr. Herkomer's house — with its rich placid greens — its good old church and solemn churchyard. A most inviting spot for tranquillity and retirement. It is almost sad to think of the extent to which the fine old forest SOUTHEND LANE Digitized by Microsoft® 1'ERIVALE CHURCH AND BRENT RIVER Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS 123 '■■■••, s$~ CHURCH FARM, PERIVALE foliage are seen some snug of the tiny Brent pursuing its winding course. There is the good old tower of the church, thickly covered with ivy and surrounded by fine trees, and here is buried the Poet of memory. From Hampstead there is a gentle descent into the Brent valley, and a charm- ing route along footpaths which lead down by the " Spaniards " in the direc- tion of Hendon and its lake. The Brent river, like its companion the Wandle, adds a good deal to the at Hornsey was cut up and spoliated. A portion is now Caen Wood ; another portion is Bishop's Wood ; and there is only one small fragment left in its original state, namely, the Highgate Woods. Hornsey village is a long, rather scattered street, and some fine old trees still line the road, behind whose shelterin & old mansions. Close by are seen glimpses Digitized by Microsoft® "-£fir" SUDBURY COURT I 24 NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS picturesqueness of all these scenes, as it makes its way in many meanderings to the Thames. Just as the green copper spire of Hampstead Church, capping the neighbour- ing height and peeping above its trees, seems to invite us cheer- fully up Haverstock Hill and the other approaches, so does the familiar spire of Harrow Church, similarly perched, seem always significant and equally inviting. For many a Londoner, the idea of Harrow is of a famous school where Byron was ; very far off — too remote to be accessible. He scarcely dreams that it is within an easy walk. Harrow and its spire are seen from many points, the centre of a delightful varied landscape. The range of Hamp- stead and Highgate Hills, it may be, bars the way, and your insouciant Londoner thinks it too troublesome a business. But how fair, how rustic, is all that lies round the place ! And the town itself, with its colleges, and buildings, and villas, and gardens intermixed, how full of interest ! It seems a half university — the lads in their odd straw hats and " tail coats " every- A LANF. IN SUDBURY HORNSEY RISE Digitized by Microsoft® N O RT H - E A S TE R N S L T B U R B S where promenading it with their sisters, aunts, and pos- sibly cousins. The view from the old churchyard — over vale and many a fair mead and wood — is, of eourse, one of the regular well - known " exhibition " views ; but albeit hackneyed, and therefore excitingf undue f ii wi i' jw r'i' -H ' j i 'i RAhr *^> WILI.ESDEN LAN']'"., WILLESDEN expectation, it has its charm. The traditions of the favourite Byron seat, with others, are duly fostered ; but the impression left on a visit to the place is a most original one. a Not so many years ago, Willesden was a genuine rustic village in high favour with artists and pedestrians. It lies between Hampstead and Twyford, and is approached by pleasant lanes and paths. Word went forth, however, that here was to be "Willesden Junction," the builders have rushed in, and it has become a sort of town. Close by are still found some charming bits ; the prettily named Dollis Hill, with its trees, the drowsy, secluded Neasdon, the old village church, where there used to be enshrined an image of "Our Ladv of Willesden." Indeed the charming Har- row Road leads us on to many an attract- ive hamlet, by Endbury and Wembley, 3&J. OLD COTTAGE IN WILLESDEN LANE Digitized by Microsoft® 126 NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS each with a special attraction of its own. It is a surprise indeed to find so many of these ancient churches so close to the great city. In the churchyard, Charles Reade — the closing days of whose life were sadly clouded — lies buried. Two miles away to the west is Twyford, with its green lanes, past which winds the Brent. One of the most genuinely rural districts about London is the happily named " Vale of Middlesex," which lies to the south of Harrow. Nothing more tranquil or sequestered can be imagined ; the few hamlets or villages seem to be forgotten by the noisy world without, and by the irrepressible "speculative" one. The walks and lanes are sylvan. The pat- terns of church found about here are of the oldest and most picturesque kind — long sloping tiled roofs, sinuous and bent with age, small spires, and a low porch. In this region we pass by many a delightful spot, where we are tempted to linger. Such is Northolt, with its old church. It is found in a sequestered, sleeping little village, to which lead wind- ing lanes. It recalls some of these hamlets that lie close to Dorking. Here are the soft green lanes, on one side of which rises the old church, with its steep roof, bent like HARROW ROAD, NEAR SUDBURY Digitized by Microsoft® IN THE MEADOWS, PERIVALE Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS i 29 CRAVEN PARK, WILLESDEN an aged man's back, and its piquant spire in front. Round it is the pretty grassy graveyard, shaded bv an old yew tree. On the other side are a few cottages and an inn. There is a simplicity and quietude about the whole place that is irresistible : an avenue of great elms leads away to another re- tired hamlet, Greenford, and offering the same charm of tranquil seclusion. Here is a rustic church, snoozing, as it were, in old-fashioned ease. One would be inclined to think that it was in scenes like these that Cattermole found subjects of old churches and villages with which he illustrated the Old Curiosity Shop. The unenquiring Londoner knows little of these charming retreats, which are at his hand, as it were, and within an easy walk. His theory is that he is walled in impenetrably by "thick-ribbed" houses, and that he cannot find pastoral life without undertaking a long railway expedition. It may be urged, how- ever, that these places can scarcely be considered with- in the range of " Suburban London." Hut they are NICOL RuAD, WILLESDEN Digitized by Microsoft® 1 30 NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS clearly marked down for absorption as much as Hampstead and Nor- wood were. The process is prompt and speedy. One day the fair smiling place is found out and speedily covered with terraces and buildings, and from that moment it begins to stretch its hands to the Metropolis, eager to join it. The latter sends out its tentacles in the same direction. The space between is soon covered. A magic process. So it may reasonably be said that all these favoured places are already suburbs in posse. Indeed it is surprising what a number of antique churches of the pattern that Cattermole and the Christ- mas artists are so partial to are to be found on the way. The pretty Brent still shows itself occasionally. When we come within a mile or so of Ealing, w r e pass an extraordinary decrepit little church, flanked by a very sylvan- looking vicarage, a framed and gabled house, surrounded by charmingly luxuriant gardens. This is Perivale, a sort of curio in the parish church way, claiming to be all but the smallest parish in England. It contains only five houses and under fifty inhabitants. On the roadside THE BRENT, NEAR TWYFOKD Digitized by Microsoft® WANSTEAD PARK Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® N O R T II - E A S T E R X S U B U R B S 133 ''' ',' ' GREENFORD at Ealing, hard by the church, we arc attracted by the welcome music of the rooks. There they are in their high trees, busy as usual. On the north-east side of Harrow Hill, we find yet another sylvan retreat, Kingsbury, which is of the same pattern as Northolt. A charming picture it offers, with its " screen " and few ancient cottages, and the verdant shade given by the avenue of old elms. From behind the trees peeps out the antique church, rusted and buffeted by the storms of centuries. The FILLEBROOK TERRACE, LEYTON.vrONIi Digitized by Microsoft® 134 NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS whole is placidly tranquil, with a strange air of drowsy loneliness, and yet but six miles from London City ! Here the pretty roaring- Brent was interrupted about half-a-century ago to form a great reservoir, which by a happy compensation has become the haunt of wild fowl of the most varied kinds — snipe, ruffs, curlews, and their like. Anglers, too, resort hither and find excellent sport; and "The Welsh Harp " at Hendon affords the cockney welcome hospitality. Willesden is but a short walk distant, and not so long since offered attractions to the sketcher and the pedestrian ; but, as we have just seen, the spoiler has come that way, and laid all waste — with his neat villas. Field-lanes, stiles, and hedge paths lead from all sides directly to this Kingsbury village. Its old flint church, perched on a sort of knoll, is a venerable bit of old fashion, with its wooden lantern and spire. Some bells of bronze are shown, and there are monuments to servants of Queen Elizabeth and James I. In the walls are seen the old Roman bricks. As I have said, one does not anticipate meeting antiquities of this sort in a country walk. Close by Hendon there is, or used to be, pointed out an old white house called Hyde House Farm, whither poor Oliver Goldsmith used to retire when A LANE AT LEYTONSTONJJ Digitized by Microsoft® N O R T H - E A S T E R X S U 11 U R B S 1 3 5 PERIVALE CHUKCH he wished to write in peace and undis- turbed by bailiffs ; and here the inquisi- tive Boswell found him out, and took note of his memorandum scribbled on the wall. From Kingsbury to Edgeware is a short walk, and close to Edgeware is the old Whitchurch Church, an ordinary country parish church. Entering it, we are dazzled by elaborate paintings on the ceilings and walls — the work, we are assured, of the great mural artists, Laguerre and others. There are lavish carvings finely wrought, and said to be the work of the eternal (and Briarean) Grinling. More interesting still, the organ is pointed out as the one on which Handel performed for three years. Nay, he had here directed a choir of 120 performers every Sunday, and which was on the scale of a Chapel Royal. There are grand monuments, the figures of life size ; there is gilding and rich decoration everywhere. What is the secret, it will be asked, of this mysterious church? But there is more to come. Ei the churchyard is the memorial to one W. Powell, who is described as the original " Harmonious Blacksmith." And there was a tradition that a horse-shoeing forge in the village was the "very identical Digitized by Microsoft® 136 BOW ROAD, BOW NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS one " where the great German heard the musical strokes. This was to be expected, the demand creating the supply. Some ten or twelve years ago the actual anvil (!) was sold by auction in London. And agfain it will be asked what place is this ? It was the Parish Church of Canons, and the story is a curious one. The " Edgeware Road " in *C5 town is familiar enough, but not every one knows that it is perhaps the straightest road of its length in the kingdom, and is prolonged from the Marble Arch to Edgeware, some two or three miles from Kingsbury, a distance of some twelve miles, traced with a mathematical precision. It touches some pleasant spots — Crickelwood, the Brent reservoir, and Kingsbury, Stanmore, and other places. This was indeed the old Roman way known as Watling Street. No more curious story attached to Suburban London is to be found than that connected with the park of Canons, which is close by. It is one of the " curios " which we can pick up even in these rural districts. It is indeed a strange one. The Duke of Chandos, who was one Brydges, a paymaster to the army in Queen Anne's reign, NEAR LEA BRIDGE Digitized by Microsoft® RIVER RODING, FROM WAXSTEAD PARK Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® OLD BRIDGE AT BRENTFORD NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS 1 39 had amassed a vast fortune, and determined to build what should be one of the most magnificent palaces not in England merely, but in all Europe. At the end of one of the streets in Edgeware we can see one -,,:., of the gates of the park. " The avenue was spacious, and as it afforded you the view of two fronts joined into one, the distance not permitting you to see the angle that was in the centre, so you were agreeably deceived into the opinion that the front of the house was twice as large as it really was. And yet, on approaching nearer, you were again surprised by perceiving a winding passage, opening, as it were, a new front to the eye of near one hundred and twenty feet wide, which you imagined not to have seen before." Thus, quaint old Dodsley. The grounds and gardens had canals and ponds. The great saloon was painted by Paolucci and the stucco and gilding were by the famous Italian Pergotti. The columns and staircase were of marble, and each step of the grand stair was in one whole piece twenty- two feet long. All this state and grandeur, we are told, came to an ignomi- nious end. The splendid &' HIGH STREET, LEYTON Digitized by Microsoft® 140 NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS palace was offered, but found no purchaser, for there was no purchaser with means sufficient to keep it up. The fountains and curios were then sold, and the stately building pitilessly razed to the ground. Not one stone was left on another. To supply the final degrading touch, we are told, "the land whereon this structure was erected was lately purchased by one Hallet, an eminent cabinetmaker, who acquired a large fortune in that business, and he has built an elegant small house upon the ruins of the Duke of Chandos's large and magnificent seat." " Weigh Hannibal " indeed ! There is, as a pendant to this wretched tale that of Wanstead and the Tylneys, a family almost as magnificent as the Chandos family. The wealth of the Childs — a great banking family — had all descended to an heiress, who was sought by all sorts and conditions of suitors, among whom was even the Duke of Clarence. A wasteful spendthrift, Wellesley Pole, unattractive in every way, succeeded in carrying off the prize. Wanstead was considered one of the palaces of Europe — a superb pile, vast in extent, ambitious in its architecture. It was situated near Chiefwell, in the Epping Forest. In due course the spendthrift had squandered to the last shilling. The heiress was left destitute. Like Canons, it was razed to the ground, not a stone being left, A curious incident was that some of its splendid pillars had been brought from Canons on the destruction of that pile. These things are in- teresting to know, and add piquancy to a country walk ; to " the general " they are unfamiliar. It is astonishing to think that within five miles or so to-- IIIGIl STREET, BHOMLEY Digitized by Microsoft® EPPING FOREST AT SNARESBROOK Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS 14: of London are two great forests, Epping and Hainault, offering' pleasant promenades and a delightful variety of sylvan scenery We are too apt to think cheaply of scenes like this, which are associated with " Bank Holiday" revelry, and appear to be the special property of the "vulgar herd " ; but this cockney appreciation may be accepted as a test of merit. A day in these forests would furnish a welcome surprise and pleasant entertainment even to "superior" or self-denying persons. At Ching- ford, in spite of the modern-antique inn and the waiting donkeys, there is something very inviting in the forest vistas, where the visitor is at once tempted to go and wander and lose him- self. Not far away is the pic- turesque Chigwell, welcome to the Dickensian, where was old Joe Willet's inn. Here, too, on the Epping Road is Leyton with its market gar- dens. It is melancholy to think that so lately as the beginning of the century these two great forests covered over fifty thousand acres, which by long-continued " pickings and stealings " and enclosures have been reduced to some four or five thousand ! The history of the spoliation of commons would be an extraordinary one, and form a story of shameless, impudent robbery. We must be thankful, however, that even this remnant has been saved. Close to Epping Forest are some inviting retreats — such as Snares- brook — which many years ago was the home of many curious birds, and even herds of deer, which fell a sacrifice to the enclosures. The old village is still there in which stand a few country houses. Another ... ■ * SKINNERS COMPANY'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, STAMFORD HILL Digitized by Microsoft® 144 NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS of these Epping outskirts is Leytonstone, which displays numerous " neat villas " of correct pattern. The long stretch of road which leads out of London by White- chapel and Bow offers some interesting' surprises. Thus we pass through Whitechapel of a market-day, to find the whole street up and down *v- tilt ?-Jr-?> >a LOOKING ACROSS LONDON, GREENWICH PARK quite blocked up by the enormous waggons and carts of compressed hay offered for sale; while rustics in smocks stand round — the whole suggesting a busy country town. In the broad Whitechapel Road we see the old and the new side by side ; spacious marts next to old tiled " hunched " houses ; a highly picturesque square of almshouses, somewhat suggesting the condemned Emmanuel Hospital at West- minster. On the right, not far from " the People's Palace," a by-street leads down to Stepney Green — a really welcome bit of rus in urbe — a long Digitized by Microsoft® LEYTONSTONE— EVENING Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® N RT H - E A S T E R N S L T B LI R B S '47 strip of grassy enclosure, clumsily railed in, but lined by houses of every pattern and age ; some grimy and mouldering, some modern and new, some huddled together, but all with a sort of forlorn and abandoned air. One house — the Jewish Schools — nearly two centuries old, is picturesque and effective, and in the soundest condition, with its carved eaves and shell-shaped door, fine ironwork gate, and old garden in front. Beyond the Green we emerge on a rustic-looking road, and pass by the Vicarage, in its pleasant walled garden; while farther on to the right we come to the fine old church standing in its luxuriant churchyard, now a public garden, with trees and rich grass, and something like a close round it — a very tranquil, inviting spot indeed. It might seem a country church. Returning to the Whitechapel Road, we wander on still farther until we reach Mile End and the Bow Road, lined on one side with com- fortable villas, each of which boasts a couple of good old trees in its front. And here, in the centre of the roadway, is another old church and tower, with a much bent tiled roof, an odd thing to meet with in a suburban town. All these contrasts are plea- sant and strike us with a sort of pleased surprise. The Londoner who would LOURING ALKUbb THE ISLK OF OOGS FKOM GREENWICH PARK Digitized by Microsoft® 148 NORTH-]-: ASTERN SUBURBS wish to enjoy something very original in the way of exploration or dis- covery might set out for the north- eastern quarter of the city — to the Hackney district — where he will find much that is new, curious, and enter- taining. The station of Hackney Downs is little more than a quarter of an hour's journey from the busy |]|f and crowded Liverpool Street, and only a few minutes away from Beth- nal Green and Whitechapel. Here he will find the interesting old- fashioned Hackney, most quaint of the London suburban districts, very much of the pattern of some remote town such as Folkestone, with its narrow straggling streets full of old red-brick houses, tiled roofs, gardens, tramcars, glimpses of "downs" and commons, and patches of green revealing themselves at sudden openings : with the modern shops built over the old gardens in front of the houses. These, • 'a with all their modern methods, supply an animation and picturesque variety. Here are churches and buildings of the pattern that was in fashion a century ago, of a highly respectable bourgeois cast and passe enough, and on that account offering a sort of interest. The street bends and winds ; there is plenty of traffic. It seems like market-day in the High Street of a country town — there are the carriages of the residents, who have villas and gardens that are found on the rural- looking roads. There are pleasing bits of antiquity too. What more welcome, for instance, than the grey mouldering tower of the old church, that was pulled down, I suppose, a century ago, and replaced NAVAL SCHOOL CHAPEL, NEW CKOSS Digitized by Microsoft® Ufm, r \^iKe^ TELEGRAPH HILL, NEW CROSS Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® . f 1Trf 3*. l'OND ON BLACKHEATH NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS 151 by a spacious structure with a newer tower? The interior rather suggests a concert-room, and the altar is oddly placed on the left of the entrance. This old sad -looking tower stands in the crowded churchyard, where, it would appear from the dates of the tomb- stones, interments still go on. It looks down on the busy street and passing tramcars below it. Interesting, too, is that old tavern, in a recess pierced with an archway which leads into another street, its roof much bent and straggling — a goodly subject for an artist. We relish also the stately Town Hall, a well-designed structure with an antique air, somewhat suggesting such a building in Belgium. These edifices give a local character and feeling of autonomy to the districts, and one always welcomes them with satisfaction. Hackney offers this oddity, that it seems to be cut off from the world beyond, and "leads nowhere," the marshes inter- posing. It joins Clapton and Lea Bridge. Clapton has its own attraction in some very effective little Almshouses, with a modern chapel attached at the top of a flight of steps, THE GOLDSMITH COMPANY S TECHNICAL AND RECREATIVE INSTITUTE, .NEW CROSS Digitized by Microsoft® i 5 2 NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS quite in the spirit of the old work; a little enclosed green, known as "The Triangle" from its shape, close by; and some good old "Queen Anne" houses, one about the best that I have seen. The comparatively modern church of St. John of Jerusalem, built many years ago, before the modern revival, is a very striking piece of work, from its fine lines and cathedral -like spaciousness. But it seems to be suffering from that mysterious decay which preys on so many of the modern churches, so that in forty or fifty years it will have acquired a properly ruined air. Everywhere, as I have said, there are gardens, or trees, or glimpses of grass and country — blended to- gether with an Islington- like bustle of shopping and Q-eneral traffic — it seems to hint to us that we are on the verge of the country, and so it proves. For we know that beyond Hackney town stretches away that solemn and awe-inspiring belt of waste land known as The Marshes. This mysterious tract has a strange interest, and everywhere betrays its origin. On passing out of the town we see the expanse of tranquil moorland spreading out before us. It has a sombre- melancholy tone, suggesting those flat and rather dismal prairies we see in Belgium or Holland. A few little bosquets and scattered trees dot the landscape here and there, while a meagre canal winds across it, and a horse is seen tugging a boat along. No houses are to be seen, save perhaps two or three dotted about afar off, a snowy white one or a red-tiled roof contrasting with the green. These marshes, as I VANBRUGH PARK, Ill.ACKIIF.ATII COMMON Digitized by Microsoft® N O R T 1 1 - E A S T E R X S U B U R B S 153 have said, make a complete barrier from Hackney town in the northern direction, and there is no public issue across it. The high- roads have to be sought a long way round, by the right and left, by Lea Bridge. There is, indeed, a private road across the marshes, but the explorer has to pass through barriers, and beside a not un- picturesqne inn, where toll is demanded. It is curious to think of turnpike road so But the place is bizarre from view. of that curious Lea adds an at- there being still a close to London, sinful a r a n d every point of The vicinity little river the traction. There terv connected winding stream, described as " pol- turnishes a larq-e to the New River in the highest men and fisher- boats can barely so narrow is the ^r VANBRUGH CASTLE, BLACKHEATH is a sort of mys- with this little which is often luted," and yet quantity of water Company. It is favour with oars- men, though the pass each other, little canal ; but it is always crowded. After these sylvan rambles we flit back once more to town. All this suburban region is almost equally attractive. Directing our steps eastward, we might linger at Edmonton and Enfield, where the amateur of old brick houses and ancient gardens and fine ironwork will find abundance to his taste. Between Edmonton and Stamford Hill we find the straggling Tottenham, which once had quite a rural air, but is now crowded over with " middle-class " dwellings. And Eltham, what a surprise! how original the impression left upon us! Apart from x Digitized by Microsoft® 154 NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBS the rural beauties of the plaee — the ancient trees lining the roadside, the striking-looking houses — there is the ruined palace, the banqueting hall with its finely traced windows and marvellous open roof, its moat and bridge. But we should require space to deal even superficially with these tempting places. I have merely indicated some choice specimens : there is much more that will repay the explorer. RIVER LEA, HACKNEY HARSH Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® WIMBLEDON COMMON" Digitized by Microsoft® »w^ ^^•tlw WIMBLEDON PARK LAKE CHAPTER VI LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS Clapham — Wimbledon and Putney — Denmark Hill and Dulwich — ; 'The Palace" — Greenwich — Vanbrugh Castle and Morden College. Taking our way southwards, across Westminster Bridge, into the busy tramway land on the other side, we find ourselves following long lines or avenues of a dispiriting character. These lead to Greenwich, to Brixton and Clapham. The welcome jingling of the bells and the metrical "clack-clack" of the horses' hoofs supply life and bustle for the poor squalid workers of the districts. Nothing gives such an idea of the hopeless monotony of certain portions of London as the routes by the Old Kent Road and West- Digitized by Microsoft® i 5 8 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS minster Bridge Road, that lead to Camberwell, Clapham, Greenwich, etc. Long rows of grim, shabby-looking houses — there are cast-oft" or " second- hand " houses, like cast-off clothes — line these dismal avenues, which seem interminable. Nothing is so curious as the contrast between these southerly "fringes" of the great city and the corresponding out- skirts on the northern side. That of Westminster Bridge suddenly emerges into a bright suburb at Kennington, where the equally mono- tonous, but more cheerful, Clapham Road runs on, a straight road, for some miles. Some years ago, the old " Horns Assembly Rooms," now replaced by a modern Concert Hall, lent an air of decayed old fashion to the place. In the High Street there are some good old houses, and there is the "common," now made trim and square and fashioned into a public garden. The traveller who would not encounter the monotony of the protracted but cheerful Clapham Road, can find a pleasing diver- sity by diving into the bowels of the earth, through the agency of a lift, and taking the electric railway to Stockwell — a curious experience. Indeed he can make choice of steam, omnibus, tramcar, cab, or electric line to reach Clapham. Familiar to all as Clapham 1'ONI) ON CLAPHAM COMMON' Digitized by Microsoft® CRYSTAL PALACE FROM WIMBLEDON PAR] Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 161 1 j - % ate 'THE HORNS, KEXXIXGTON is, with its Common and old houses, it still offers an attraction that is scarcely sufficiently recognised. Close as it is to the great city, it can be reached from Battersea Park in about a quarter of an hour. It has really an inviting air of rusticity. The natives, too, seem to be rustic in their way. There are Claphamites who would never ask to leave its placid precincts ; their tastes are simple and pastoral. We have heard the sneer "a Claphamite order of mind," which may betoken a compli- ment. Some would ask to live and die and be buried in their beloved suburb. It is a great occasion when they "go to town." In this pleasant indifference they might seem to suggest the worthy citizens of Mechlin, who protested against the railway being brought near to their antique city, and whose wish was complied with, to their own detriment. On the fringe of the Common, and notably at Battersea Rise, are seen substantial mansions, with their grounds and gardens, ten- anted by "well-to-do" gentry, who have a society of their own, "keep their carriages," and give- dinner-parties now and again. The confectioners in "The Pave- ment " have often a busy time of it: "send out dinners "and equip parties in London fashion. It '^■- OLD HOUSES, 1111,11 M'KEE'l, KENiNlNGTON Digitized by Microsoft® i6: LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS seems like some thriving country town. There are concerts, and a " Philhar- monic Society," lectures, readings, string quartetts galore. And yet London is but twenty minutes away. The air is restoring, and especially welcome to the smoke-dried lungs of the " jaded Londoner "; in- deed the wholesome breezes sweep from Wimbledon and Putney Heath on the west, and thus the Claphamite stands on a plateau far above the great city, and there is nothing between him and Brighton. On the Common, at "North Side," erst "Church Buildings," is a very piquant row of " Queen Anne Mansions," which are really picturesque BOWLING GREEN HOUSE, PUTNEY HEATH "w* ■** IN THE GROUNDS OF WIMBLEDON HOUSE, WIMBLEDON Digitized by Microsoft® MITCH AM Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® WIMBIJiDON LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 165 and effective, from their mellowed red tint, well rusted over, carved door- ways, twisted ironwork, and old gardens. These houses date from the year 17 13, and some two or three, it is said, were the work of Sir C. Wren. These are Nos. 13 and 16. We may note the antique grace, almost foreign, with which the enclosure in front is laid out, forming a "fore court," or little enclosure, with a kind of terrace. In the ironwork of the gates, simple as it is, there is a delicate touch : witness a specimen or two of twisted work, with a helmet and shield. The little gardens in front have a sort of Dutch grace, and in those behind there is a luxuriance and wildness that is extra- ordinary Here fruits grow abund- antly, and in front of some houses are trained vines, which bear well. Within there is much that is piquant and attractive. All is panelled, and quaintly disposed with that air of spaciousness which a good architectural artist used to have the secret of im- parting to a small house. Witness Ashleigh — a "poor thing, but mine- own,"— there is a riant drawing-room, all panelled round as if in satin-wood, N.I- CORNER 01' CI.AI'JIAM COMMON \ ffijn ■ lifted) A\mm, "31. " 2 ?, 3 Digitized by Microsoft® ROEIIAM1TOX 1 66 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS the chimney being placed cornerwise, which has a novel and' graceful effect. There are corner cupboards with delicate mouldings and carvings. Every room has character. From the windows there is a charming view, quite " park- like," of abundant trees and spreading country, with afar off a glimpse of the distant verdant hills, crowned by the Crystal Palace. The next-door house, Thornleigh, boasts a fine well-stair, with dark twisted balusters of imposing and monumental effect. Behind, a fair garden spreads away down to a pretty tennis-ground, separated by a hedge from the pleasant Vicarage gardens. This house has good traditions. At the back is an old- fashioned building whose stair leads up, like a companion ladder, into a spacious room with a carved ceiling. The children of the house now use it as a schoolroom ; but towards the beginning of the century a very dis- tinguished man was taught in this very room. For, one of the traditions of Clapham is the memory of the child- hood of Lord Macaulay, which was spent here. The house in question was tenanted by a schoolmaster named Greaves, and the schoolroom WINDSOR STREET, PUTNEY Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 167 was added to by that well-known knot of philanthropists, "the Clapham Sect": Zachary Macaulay, who lived in, or on, "The Pavement," Henry Thornton, Lord Teignmouth, Wilberforce, and others, who were all deeply interested in the slave question. They had devised a scheme for bringing over young negroes and educating them here. This, however, failed. 1 Sir Charles Trevelyan, THE WANDLE, BEUDINGTUN brother-in-law of the historian, also had a house on the Common. And so lately as 1885, Miss Fanny Macaulay, his sister, took up her abode in Mr. Greaves's old home, it was said not knowing that her great brother had been " schooled " there. Wilberforce's house was Broom wood, and here the great Bishop of the name was born. Lord Teignmouth's house is now a monastery — a quaint, 1 Mr. Robertson, the owner of Tliornleigh, has placed in the schoolroom a framed description setting forth these interesting facts. Digitized by Microsoft® i68 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS OLD HOUSE IN ROEHAMPTON LANE sound old mansion with a cupola and dormer windows, vast gardens and grounds spreading away behind — a Naboth's vineyard, hugely coveted by the professors of "jerry " work. But Clapham has other traditions, some no doubt apocryphal enough. The natives will have it that Captain Cook, the navigator, had a house here, and there is said to be a tree on the Common known as "Cook's Tree." But there seems to be no foundation for the legend. Mrs. Cook, however, lived and died here. But the great glory of the place is the worthy Samuel Pepys, who was fond of it, and lived in a fine house in the south side of the Chase, which has been long since levelled. On Battersea Rise, now the west side of the Chase, was Mr. Henry Thornton's house, a great resort of " the saints " and of pious and political persons who were interested in the slaves. Pitt, Hannah More, Sir Walter Scott, Wilberforce, and others, found their way here. In one wing is an oval shaped saloon said to have been designed by the great Minister himself. The house is still inhabited by the Thornton family, which again suggests, what is so often for- gotten, that there are "country gentlemen " living all round London, and that there is a m* ' KING b HEAD, ROEHAMPTON Digitized by Microsoft® MITCHAM COMMON' Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS i;r sort of country life going" on in the suburbs. "The Elms," it is said, either the existing " Elms " or an older one, once belonged to the Quaker family of Barclays, descendants of the author of The ^-Ipo/ogy, and purchasers of Thrale's Brewery — another " seri- ous " and placid tradition. Not many years ago was standing "The Cedars," a fine old family mansion, said to have been built by Sir Christopher. Two substantial " manor-house " looking edifices form now a convent. A doctor thrives in another antique edifice. Perhaps it is the abundance of these 3*. ON BRIXTON HILL WORCESTER 1'AKK Digitized by Microsoft® 1 7.2 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS associations — "Saints," Quakers, Methodists, Nuns, Monks, and semi- naries — that imparts its tranquil secluded tone to the old place. A few years ago there was standing on the south side of the Common, by Windmill Road, a very fine, well-designed mansion — a yellow central block — its "offices" forming wings and united to it. It was roomy and stately in front, and behind were fine gardens and grounds. This was formerly the abode of " Single-speech " Hamilton. But the speculative builder came that way, saw that it suited his purposes admirably, levelled the whole, and covered the property with terraces of houses. The lover of the picturesque grows sad over such devastations. On the west side is a house in which Cavendish, the philo- sopher, actually weighed the earth and ascertained its density. Modest as the house is, its owner is said to have left behind him a million of money. Many of these good old mansions have a curious semicircular lawn between their gates and the road ; the shape marked out by a semicircular row of white posts and chains, and often by a sunk fence. This lends a quaint old-fashioned effect. Indeed all over Clapham are found Digitized by Microsoft® KEW BRIDGE Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® RALEIGH HOUSE, BRIXTON LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 175 notes and tokens of old fashion which are very welcome in these days of modern uniformity ; and such names as "The Pave- ment," " Hie Sweep" "The Elms," "The Cedars," " The Rise," " Church Buildings " (as it used to be, beshrew "North Side"!) favour, and flavour too, the antique tone. In the picturesque " Church Buildings " every house has a character of its own. Note, for instance, Clarence House with its range of crowded windows. Here was Tom Hood put to school, and we may even now recognise it by his song, " Its ugly windows, ten in a row." To this hour Clapham abounds in schools or " educational establishments " for young ladies and young gentlemen. This is owing, perhaps, to its quiet retirement and to the salubrity of the air. We have dwelt at some length on this interesting portion of " Suburban Lon- don " with the view of illus- trating what was laid down in the opening pages of this work — viz. that every suburb has "a note," tone, or dis- tinct attraction of its own, which it will be found worth while to study. A little practice will soon enable us THE GREYHOUND INN, DULWICH Digitized by Microsoft® 1 76 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS to pierce below what is merely on the surface, with the result of increasing our sense of enjoyment as we wander among these pleasant and, it may be, familiar scenes. From Clapham we take our way on to Wimbledon, a fine, breezy expanse — the true open country — which has suffered little from the builder. By and by oldest inhabitants will be recalling the days of the annual rifle contest and the busy encamp- ment, with its railways, tents, and houses, which all sprang up in a night, and when, for a week only, there was a cease- less "popping" of musketry. The common has quite a "park- like" air from its vast extent, regularity, and fine old trees. The approaches are pleasing, and a well shaded, sylvan avenue or "green lane" leads out of it at the northern ex- tremity by a picturesque old- inn called "The Crooked Billet." Wimbledon is justly considered the finest, most spacious, healthful, and picturesque of the London commons. There is a grandeur with a sort of state about it; it is garnished, too, with imposing residences — country houses rather — which have their grounds and gardens, and moreover enjoy the matchless air that sweeps across LINDEN GROVE, PECKHAM KYE Digitized by Microsoft® r~ CRYSTAL PALACE [•'ROM DAWSON'S HILL Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 179 the open plain. The Spencer family is associated in an interesting way with Wimbledon. At their old manor house, long since pulled down, Queen Elizabeth was entertained by Lord Burghley. Later the place belonged to Queen Henrietta Maria, and her ill- fated consort was partial to it. We next find it in possession of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborouefh, who left it to one of the Spencers ; but the park, which extended to twelve hundred acres, was sold by Lord Althorpe in 1836, and the manorial rights were finally disposed of in 1871. The extra- ordinary increase in the value of land DO<; KENNEL HILL, EAST DULM'ICH in this part of the country would have put the present holder of the title in possession of an enormous fortune. There are other interesting names associated with Wimbledon. Calonne, the French financier, purchased a house here, and Cannizaro- — a few years ago celebrated for its "open air" or " pas- ,, y toral plays," a fad of the 1 II 1 I ffvm m- time — was formerly oc- cupied by Lord Melville. Home Tooke, Lady Anne Barnard of " Auld Robin Gray " celebrity, Gifford, the "slashing" DULWICH COLLEGE AND CHAPEL Digitized by Microsoft® iSo LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS PECKHAM RYE — WAITING FOR CUSTOMERS critic, and the ill-tempered, impracticable Lord Durham, also resided here. Like Putney Heath and Battersea Fields, the common was in hiefh favour as a rendezvous for duels. The land about Wimbledon is rich and green and well furnished with trees. There are fine enclosed places, scat- tered about, with an abund- ance of sylvan-looking lanes lined with villas not too crowded together. Putney Heath, 400 acres in extent, has many original charms of its own, and is so named with perfect propriety ; DENMARK MILE Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 181 for there is all the fresh lrregu- wildness and larity of the heath tt about it ; it rises and sinks in pleasant un- dulations, and is well furnished with mosses and g'orse. Nowhere near London is the air more fresh, or reviving. The Londoner who of a Sunday comes down by rail or river and thence walks across the heath to Wimbledon will find his profit. Nor is anything wanting to furnish well-read wanderers with pleasant dramatic memories. Yonder is " Bowling-Green House " where Pitt died, the most serious loss that a party has ever sustained. gp IN THE ANEKLEY ROAD, NEAR CRYSTAL PALACE VIEW ACROSS THORNTON HEATH Digitized by Microsoft® 18: LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS His death, however, was not occasioned by anxiety or overwork, as has been supposed, but was owing" to his too copious draughts of port wine and water. He was fond of Putney, and often found his way there to spend a Sunday with his friend Dundas. Another great man, Gibbon, spent his childhood here. An obelisk will be noted, which was raised to commem- orate a curious fireproof ex- periment of the younger David Hartley's. He erected a house on the heath which was set on fire, in presence of the king and a vast crowd, and successfully defied the "devouring element." For this he received a grant of ^"2500, and the house still re- mains. In West Lodge lived Douglas Jerrold, and here died Leigh Hunt. Nor is the exciting element of duelling wanting ; no fewer than three Ministers of the Crown having- "fought" here— Mr. Pitt, Mr. Canning, and Lord Castle- reagh. The heath has therefore dramatic memories enough. Not far from Wimbledon is Merton, associated with Nelson and Lady Hamilton, who, it is said, used to fish in the Wandle river. The foolish heroine dubbed a little stream of the place "The Nile." Not a stone, however, is left to show the site of VIEW FROM AUCKLAND HILL, LOWER NORWOOD Digitized by Microsoft® ■yaiWP" 3 * 4 **" J ** *&&** CRYSTAL PALACE FROM WEST NORWOOD Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 1 85 ON TOOTING COMMON ;he mansion. Pursuing the road some four or five miles south, we come to Maiden and Worcester, formerly a portion of Nonsuch Park. A pleasant walk leads on to Ewell and the breezy Epsom. Xot far from Fulham is the pleasant Barnes Com- mon, which, however, is sadly cut up by roads, railways, and buildings. There is a charming stroll from the common, through rural roads and green lanes, on to Roe- hampton. Here we find a row of irregular and pictur- esque houses clustered to- IN THE MEADOWS, LOWER SYDENHAM 2 U Digitized by Microsoft® CROWN HILL, UPPER NORWOOD 1 86 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS gether, with many an old tree and some enclosed de- mesnes. Here is a pleasing mansion of cheerful red brick and good architecture — Roehampton House, Lord Leven's seat. It is of genuine Queen Anne pattern, and dates from the year 17 12. The ceiling of the saloon was painted in florid style by Thornhill, the artist of St. Paul's. Here, too, was Dover House, where Lord Clifden used to gather numbers of his political friends, who were glad to come down and breathe the good air of the district, which is truly inspiring, owing to the stretch of common adjoining. There are two notable religious houses here : Manresa, the Jesuit Novitiate and College, so called after the solitude in Spain to which St. Ignatius, the founder of the order, retired. It is a large and important institution ; the house formerly be- longed to Lord Bessborough, and was built by Sir W. Chambers. It once ' M contained a fine collection of works of art ; and round it extends a spacious demesne or park. The society has built a church for the use of the Roman Catholics in the district. The other in- stitution is the well-known convent for- merly at Acton, where numbers of young- Catholic maidens have been reared. REDPOST HILL, NORTH DULWICH Digitized by Microsoft® ON SYDENHAM HILL Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 189 Beddington, on the Wandle river, is notable for one of those great man- sions associated with the history of some famous race, so that the house it- self tells the story of the family. For here stood the mansion of the Carews, an Elizabethan family, of which all that is left is the old hall, which has been deftly " worked into " a Female Orphan Asylum. This, though incon- gruous enough, is better than wholesale destruction. Close by was discovered in 187 1 an important Roman villa, chambers, pavement, AUCKLAND KOAD, SOUTH NORWOOD UK,U STREET, LOWER NORWOOD Digitized by Microsoft® 190 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS coins, etc. A couple of miles to the west and we come to Sutton, where the sign of its inn, "The Greyhound," oddly hangs over the centre of the road as from an arch. At Croydon there is another "Greyhound" which displays the same fashion of arch ; typical, we may presume, of the animal itself. The district is certainly abundantly supplied with commons. After about a mile's walk, we come to a pleasant specimen — that of Mitcham. This village, not many years ago, had a re- putation for rurality, and was in high favour with the artist. Here we find the river Wandle, which winds on its tranquil course to London, joining the greater river at Wandsworth. There are many pleasing bits along its banks. The stream used to be in favour with the angler ; but at Mitcham the manufacturers are in strong force, and strange mixtures, the refuse of drug manufacture, are poured into its waters. The fields all round are thickly sown with lavender, rose trees, and other sweet-scented herbs, essences being distilled here on a great scale. The ground offers a rich black mould suitable for such growths. The common, of cy-rr TIIOENLAW ROAD, WEST NORWOOD Digitized by Microsoft® VIEW FROM FURZE HILL, SYDENHAM Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 193 480 acres, is a fine expanse, over which healthful breezes sweep. Indeed, it is surprising' what a variety of commons, heaths, "greens," sylvan lanes, hills, leafy roads, and the like are clustered in this district. It would require years to become familiar with their many beauties. It is not a little curious to note the characteristics of these STREATHAM COMMON southern suburbs, as contrasted with those on the northern side of London. There is a greater softness and placidity ; the air is not, of course, so keen, and there is certainly less variety in the landscape. We are never tired of contrasting the various commons with each other, and of discovering the respective "note" of each. Returning to Camberwell Green, we find ourselves close to Denmark Hill, Dulwich, and many verdant roads and paths that lead to the Crystal Palace. Within a circle of not many miles we Digitized by Microsoft® «A 1 * Mtw S 194 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS find the commons of Wands- worth, Barnes, Clapham, Wim- bledon, Putney, Streatham, Tooting, Mitcham, Peckham Rye, etc. ; each with a charm or physiognomy of its own, and all within measurable dis- tance. The curious and now almost insipid tameness of certain districts, such as the " Brixton Land," is to be noted : long, monotonous roads, lined with villas, detached and semi-detached, with neat but rather despond- ing-looking gardens in front, meet us everywhere. Here is one of the few remaining old mansions with a history, Raleigh House, which has been often threatened, and whose grounds it was proposed to purchase for FOX LANE, ANERLEY RECTORY LANE, TOOTING Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 195 LOWER NORWOOD FROM AUCKLAND HILL a People's Park. It is an interesting relic. Tranquil and inviting is the entrance to Dulwich, with its abundance of old trees seen from afar off, and scattered along the wide road, the strip of grass here and there, with the "Greyhound Inn" modestly retired, and the stray old house or two somewhat dilapidated. It seems a genuine bit of country, and might be a hundred miles away from town. The old college, though plastered over and modernised, has still an antique mouldering air, and solitary too. I have noted that the tenants of these " charities " are rarely to be seen — they probably shrink from public observation. 'IllHllllllli ( III rR< II ROAD, ANkKLLY Digitized by Microsoft® 196 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS Farther on is the Gallery, a yellow modern building — there is a pleasantly original feeling in finding an intellectual entertainment such as a picture gallery in so rural a solitude. It is not often that we pass from meadows and trees and a country road to the glories of Gainsborough and Teniers. It is one of the prettiest and choicest galleries conceivable. From its com- pactness and moderate size, it sueeests that most enjovable of collections, that at the Hague. One picture here — that of the two elegant Linley sisters — is well worth a long trudge from town to see. Denmark Hill is a fair at- tractive district, with distinct charms of its own. The air here seems ever mild and salubrious ; there is an abund- ance of old trees by the roadside, with pleasant fields stretching far away. There are gentle ascents by Denmark Hill and Duhvich, quaintly named Dog-kennel Hill and Redpost Hill. Here are comfortable-looking mansions, of old-fashioned and formal cut, that seem to doze on in tranquil fashion. The speculative builder has not, as yet, done much mischief, and there are few of his favourite "terraces" to be seen. The fair country seems to MILL LANE, NEW CROSS Digitized by Microsoft® REBECCA PLACE, NEW CROSS Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 199 « m ■■&^i I . Wl qutj . r"' Wm " /'I, 7- *#n-.mn D1XLAII HILL — ] commence here, for the 1 < > rig, d en sely - c row d e cl rows of town houses stop abruptly at Camberwell Green, whence there spread out at once the inviting rural roads to Sydenham and Dulwich. There is a pleasing" walk by Denmark Hill and Heme Hill on to Tulse Hill, the latter lined all the way by leafy gardens of good extent, within which are large villas or country houses of fair size, embowered in shrubberies. These mansions offer infinite variety in design — witness that curious specimen 'The Casino." Nearly all date from the last century, and if not very striking in design, are at least, as Johnson said of Boswell's Scotch accent, " not offensive." They har- monise admirably with their rural sur- roundings. Between Sydenham and Streatham are Tooting Common and the adjoining Tooting- Bee, the former having over sixty acres and the other about a hundred and fifty. Streatham Com- mon, which joins them, covers sixty-six acres, and forms a fine stretch of diver- sified ground ; there is gorse, and many a knoll, and good old trees. At the entrance, almost, to Streatham there is -^ ■ Hpgff ENTRANCE TO DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY Digitized by Microsoft® 200 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS a sort of rustic dell or enclosure, the old Streatham Spa, once in repute and still flowing. Loner associated with suburbs such as Camberwell, Peckham Rye, and the like, was a sort of cockney reputation : they were so thoroughly in the country that it became a sort of expedition or junketing to visit them. The scenes of farces in the old Wright and Buckstone days were often placed at "The Rye;" and the name given to one piece, " Did you ever send your wife to Camberwell ? " shows that a visit to such places was a matter of pith and moment. Peckham is no longer the old Peckham : it is overrun with terraces and houses, and the "rye" or common has a stinted, impoverished, albeit neat and trim air. The various ascents from Dulwich onwards to "the Palace" have a special attraction. The roads are "green lanes," and, in spite of the innumerable villas, never seem to lose their sylvan character. The foliage, the laurels and shrub- beries, are luxuriant, and the grass abounds ; and with it all there is a certain sense of dreamy solitude, an air of contented happiness and I'ONIJ ON STREATHAM COMMON ,ANE BORDERING STREATHAM COMMON Digitized by Microsoft® 4» «£>,;, ' ( ^v> ■■"-j. ! ■J.'f URL ENWICH 2 D Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS W* LEVJISHAM HIGH-ROAD tranquillity. About the Palace itself there is a poetical tone ; it is plain that it is the very life and soul of the district, and inspires all. In spite of its familiarity, the visitor who is set down at the station always anticipates festivity, as he gazes aloft at the enormous glittering" glass pile. Still it might be said that there is no recipe for depression and despondency so certain as a lew days' diligent at- tendance at "the Palace," while following its round of entertainments in strict fashion. a: ST. JOHNS KOAD, LEW1SHAM Digitized by Microsoft® 204 JERNINGHAM ROAD, NEW CROSS LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS This district of Sydenham, Norwood, Forest Hill, Anerley, Gipsy Hill, " Lordship Lane," is about the fairest and most " winsome " of all the sub- urban dependencies of London. Covered as it is with villas and terraces, it still maintains its sylvan aspect, owing perhaps to its high situation, and the luxuriance of its growths. We are so familiar with it that we are scarcely struck with its charm ; but the stranger is always affected in this way. From every point is seen the central attraction, the silvery, glitterin palace, which, according to our theory of every suburb having "a note ' g GROVE PARK Digitized by Microsoft® fe'.M. CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS JSSSOB 207 of its own, imparts a tone to the whole district and affects even the character and pursuits of the natives. Of a morning, at Anerlev and other stations are seen crowds of busy men hurrying up to town for the day's work. Tor them the line air is recuperative; their houses are built in substantial and sometimes elegant style, and overgrown by luxuriant ivy, often suggesting the suburbs of Dorking. At the other side of the valley that lies at the foot of the Palace, and passing by Beulah Hill, we find Streatham. On some fine, balmy, sunshiny day there is a charming walk to this good old common. Nothing more sylvan can m- rill HOKSK \M> GROOM l\N', BLACKHEATH III I.I. MUKDEN COLLEGE, BLACKHEATH Digitized by Microsoft® 208 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS be imagined than this country with its bosquet and trees. How welcome the " Paragon " — old-fashioned name!— with its irregular houses. Streatham will ever have a charm, owing to the memories of Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale, whose mansion or villa was swept away many years ago. The last generations were very " incurious " about such memo- rials ; now-a-days there is a revival of interest owing to a better knowledge, and with this better knowledge there is more reverence. The route to Greenwich by water is pleasant and often breezy. That by the road offers little that is not dreary until we approach Deptford. There is a sort of Dutch pictur- esqueness about the now dis- used dockyard. An occasional old terrace or old building, not old enough to be antique, but old-fashioned, greets us. One feels a sort of cheery inspiration as Greenwich comes in view, with the palatial hospital and delightful park. It is curious to think how Londoners, in the clays of Boswell and Johnson, could have had the patience to row down here in a wherry. But this was the regular method. The two roads that wind up the hill on each side of Greenwich CHRISTCHURCII ROAD, TULSE HILL Digitized by Microsoft® NEAR GREENWICH 2 E Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® ULU HOUSES, GREENWICH LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 211 Park have each their attraction. As we ascend by that on the right we note the little pagoda -shaped summer-house of elegant design which bears the date of the 17th century, probably attached to some good manor house long since swept away. Close to it, hard by the church, is a very old house of antique design, well worthy of study, but dilapidated. \s we ascend we come to a number of solid, square brick houses, disposed with a picturesque irregularity, some standing in their own walled gardens. Descents, such as Shooter's Hill, exemplify their names, and the straggling variations of the ground lend a certain originality. We pass by the "ranger's house," a bright and cheerful tenement, once the residence of the unlucky Queen Caroline, and pursue our way along a rural-looking road, lined by fine old trees, enjoying the fresh inspiring breezes that are always wafted from Blackheath and Shooter's Hill. This quarter has quite an old-world look, and has been little altered by the moderns. Should we ascend by the other road on the left, we shall pass that odd brick "Gazebo" known as " Vanbrugh Castle," a fortress -like structure with battlements and towers all overgrown with wild foliage, a freak of the versatile architect, dramatist, and soldier. There are some other houses SHOOTEB S HILL Digitized by Microsoft® 2 I 2 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS of his design scattered about. He was one of the earliest to use the native yellow English brick as a substitute for the brilliant red tile then imported from Holland. A pleasant morning or afternoon may be whiled away at Greenwich. The park alone is novel and welcome, and looks much as it was when Johnson and his admirer came down by wherry to spend the day there. BROMLEY FROM BECKENHAM When we stand on the plateau of the heath, beyond which lies Blackheath, the inspiring breezes are felt and many a faded cheek begins to gain colour. There is a charming row of houses, a paragon of old mansions, that rambles away below, with a quaint crescent. There is a scene of bustle and animation, from the matches of football or cricket always going on between the various schools of the neighbourhood. Here, too, are "the links" for the curiously fascinating golf, where we Digitized by Microsoft® GREENWICH PARK Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS enthusiastic 215 BURNT ASH HILL, LEE can see the players in their scarlet uni- forms patiently walking- round from hole to hole, attended by their mysterious " caddies," who carry the im- plements. If we take our way across the heath, making towards the left, leaving the "para- gon " and the old-fashioned terrace behind us, we shall enter a pleasant, well -planted bosquet or grove and some delightful gardens, which lead us to Morden College, a picturesque brick structure, with high roof and bold eaves, through whose open gateway we can see into the spacious court within. Round it runs an arcade. An occasional glimpse of such a place, now so antique — for it dates from 1694 — and so sequestered, kindles old associations, and induces a tranquil meditative tone of mind, not unaccept- able in this generation of novelties. We can understand how Washington Irvine or Addison would have felt as they wandered round this inviting building. As we stand in the centre of the Court by the disused well, no one is to be seen, though now a door opens quietly in the arcade, and a figure, a little decayed and shady, flits BROMLEY ROAD, GROVE PARK Digitized by Microsoft® 216 LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS along, to disappear by another door. This is a foundation established by Sir Thomas Morden, a wealthy merchant of his day, who provided for some forty pensioners who have been in trade, and who enjoy board and lodging and a little income of ^72. This worthy gentleman and his lady look down from their niches over this gateway, two quaint figures, well coloured and arrayed in the costume of their time. Returning along the high-road from Greenwich, we pass again through Dept- ford and come to New Cross, which has an old-fashioned air, as becomes a once coaching road. Here are some schools ; the " Old Naval " with its chapel ; and a rather sylvan -looking meeting of the ways, where the tramcars halt ; and an ascent upon the Hill, whence there is a fair view. A short walk brings us to Lewisham, which has much the air of a country town, and lines both sides of the road for nearly a mile. Perched high in a well -wooded country is the attractive Bromley, where one would be VIEW FROM HROMLEV RECREATION GROUNDS inclined to linger for the sake of the old Widows' College with its courtyard and sound brickwork, and where some forty matrons are maintained. A building of this kind gives a "note" or character to a town or village. There used to be the old Palace of the Bishops of Rochester standing hard by the entrance ; but it was levelled, we are told, by a former bishop on account of a chimney where had stood a flower-pot in which had been hidden treasonable papers that incriminated Bishop Sprat. All Johnsonians will recall " Tetty," who lies buried in the church. Following a footpath, we come Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON SOUTHERN SUBURBS 2 17 to Beckenham, which lies in a pretty country with plenty of " field walks." The church is old and has "brasses" to show; and, as is usual in so many Kentish hamlets, is approached picturesquely beneath a row of ancient yews, and through a venerable lych-gate. Between Lcwisham and Blackheath we find at Lee the oddly named " Burnt Ash Hill." --■^Sfc <$&r SUNNY RANK, SOUTH NORWOOI > 2 F Digitized by Microsoft® '}v,«-t.^O ill; ; ■Bfl 5! rffflHD rciart *u ■&!*%*■#».£ jm LONDON RIVER SUBURBS 249 fashioned air, while the innumerable boats and watermen supply anima- tion. The old houses have an important and pretentious air, showing that they were at one time in high fashion. There is the Upper and the Lower Mall. So to ;$* BURLINGTON ARMS," CHURCH STREET, CHISWICK lately as 1800 there was a house standing in the Upper Mall which had been the residence of Catherine of Braganza during her widowhood. After her tenancy it had the usual fate of large roomy mansions, and was turned into an academy. The house can be pointed out of the Prince of Wales's cook, Weltjie. Sussex House was the residence of the Duke of that name. More inland was a little cottage known as " The Seasons," where his Grace used to retire to enjoy smoking his huge meerschaums, of which he had a collection. Behind the Mall, in a rather squalid district known as " Little Wapping, " and close to the little wooden bridge, is an antique public-house known as "The Doves," which was for- merly one of the regular " coffee- houses," whither the citizens who came from town used to resort and drink their coffee. In one of the upper rooms Thomson is CHURCH STREET, CHISWICK 2 K Digitized by Microsoft® 250 LONDON RIVER SUBURBS said to have written his "Winter." There are lime trees in the garden. In the Mall lived Arthur Murphy, the lively dramatist, and Mrs. Billington, the songstress, memorable as having sung in the first performance of the Messiah at Dublin. In one of the farthest houses lived De Loutherbourg, Garrick's scene-painter, and also Stanfield, an Academician, whose "easel pictures" in- stinctively take the shape and arrangement of scenes. In his latter days De Loutherbourg was seized with a religious frenzy, and Q-ave out that he could cure diseases by touch. Thousands used to as- semble round his house to be "healed." In Queen Street, facing the newly- restored church on the road which leads towards the Suspension Bridge, there lingers on a respect- able and substantial old house which has seen "better days." This was erst Butterwick House, the residence of Lord Mulgrave, who flourished in the beginning of the seventeenth century and did some doughty deeds. It was divided into two houses, and became a home of the Impey family, to which Sir CPIISWICK FERRY Digitized by Microsoft® ACTON Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON RIVER SUBURBS 25; AT BKEN 1TOKD Elijah, known in connection with Warren Hastings, belonged. Leading to the sylvan commons from Hammersmith Bridge is a pretty road, very straight, lined with pleasing villas, and known as Castelnau. Close by are the great reservoirs of a great water company. Chiswick offers a never- failing attraction, from its tranquil sequestered tone, its genuine rural and old-world look. When we consider its close proximity to the stirring Broadway, and the lines of tramway which almost skirt it, it seems astonishing how it has escaped invasion so long. But there is a caprice in these things. Like Kew and Hammersmith and Mortlake, it has its pleasing Mall by the river. Lew are aware that in London there is a river Mall, by Inigo Jones's York Gate, so winsome and picturesque that it has been painted by Canaletti. Following the road from Hammersmith, we pass by an effective old Digitized by Microsoft® •54 LONDON RIVER SUBURBS inn or two of truly rustic or roadside pattern, oddly surviving amidst the regular town associations that encompass it. We come to Turnham Green, associated with Goldsmith's celebrated blunder. On the right, behind the railway em- bankment, is the curious modern colony or settlement known as Bedford Park. Many years ago Mr. Nor- man Shaw here laid out a suburban town — streets of pseudo-antique houses of red brick, with tiled roofs and white woodwork. As it is well furnished with trees and gardens, the effect is pleasing, if a little theatrical ; but the houses seem slight and falling into decay. In the centre is a would-be antique inn, "The Tabard." A short way off lies Acton, not many years ago a tranquil rural district, with its " Priory " surrounded by good old trees, and having its green lanes. It is now mostly built over. At Turnham Green we turn off from the high-road to Chiswick, and find ourselves in a sylvan lane which leads by Chiswick House to the little village or town. This pretty road was laid out by the late Duke of Devonshire, but already THE RIVER BRENT Digitized by Microsoft® o Pi o h H Z H Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON RIVER SUBURBS ■S7 seems an old one. The trees have grown prodigiously. It leads straight to Chiswick House — one of the Duke's seats — an elegant, classical building, with gardens which were supervised by Sir Joseph Paxton. His skill and practice in the planning of great greenhouses furnished him with the design for the Exhibition of 1851, which was in fact a mammoth greenhouse. One of the "hobbies" of cultured noble- men used to be the designing of their own mansions, and Lord Burlington planned his house in Piccadilly, of which a portion still remains, as well as the Assembly Rooms at York ; and also this Chiswick House which was built on the model of one of Palladio's palaces at Yicenza, a classic temple with a stately portico and terraces and an impos- ing dome. It is stored with antique statues and memorials. The gateway, however, is the work of Inigo Jones, and was trans- ported from the old Beaufort House at Chelsea, being a present from Sir Hans Sloane when he levelled that mansion. Here died Charles Fox in 1806, a few months after the death of his great rival, which took place not far away. This almost simultaneous death, and in about the same dis- trict, of two such illustrious 2 L AT BRENTFORD BRIDGE Digitized by Microsoft® 258 LONDON RIVER SUBURBS personages, is unique in political history. Close by will be noted a pretentious mansion with a lofty imposing portico, formerly the house of Fox's father, the first Lord Holland. It has a stately air. A little farther on we can see behind a high wall Hogarth's house, which for half-a-century has been given over to ruin and desolation, a rank ^i#w xyj & i i fftir—*-" THE LOCK AT BRENTFORD 3&F- garden in front. Fortunately it has been purchased by a gentleman who is now busy restoring it. Lamb's friend, Carey, at one time lived in it. Pursuing the road to the left, we come to the little tranquil settlement of Chiswick itself, and are rejoiced by the sight of a fine old brick mansion, thrown back from the road, with a sort of square in front, flanked by smaller houses. This is Boston House, recently a boarding school for young ladies, and now a " Refuge" or Institution. It was probably the one in which Becky Sharp was educated. A fine Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON RIVER SUBURBS 259 ■ 1 1» »* *' *(£LwT- COTTAGES AT STR AND-ON-THE-GREKN expanse of old-fashioned garden is attached, and over the ancient brick wall fine sepulchral-looking cedars can be seen. Pur- suing our way to the river, we see on the right a short terrace of old houses, with some gnarled pollarded trees in front. These have a peculiar interest, for in one of the houses lived Pope's family, and here the poet wrote portions of his Iliad. A few years ago the church was a venerable picturesque structure, but it has been " restored " in a rather fresh " spick-and-span " style. In the village is a strikingly artistic roadside inn or " public," " The Burlington Arms," which few painters pass without trans- ferring to their sketch-book. Half-an-hour could be spent with entertainment among the tombs in the graveyard and in the church. At every step we come on some interesting or significant name. Here lie Pope's father ; Holland and De Loutherbourg, Garrick's actor and scene- painter ; Lord Macartney, Ambassador to China ; and, above all, Hogarth, with the inscription partly Garrick's, partly Johnson's. Johnson, it will be recollected, is de- scribed as amending the verses dramatically enough r&tffi/i HEW GREEN Digitized by Microsoft® 26o LONDON RIVER SUBURBS while mechanically " stirring his tea." And fine lines they are. Four remarkable ladies lie buried here, though unrecorded by monument or inscription ; to wit, Cromwell's two daughters, with the Duchess of Cleveland and Countess of Ranelagh, both Hampton Court "beauties." Ugo Foscolo was interred here, but his remains, like those of Paoli, were removed to his own country. Rousseau lived at Chiswick during most of his stay in England. All these are interesting memories. We pass by Mortlake with its Mall, old-fashioned, though not antique ; and, following the winding road, path almost, from the river, come to the striking old village church, all overgrown, which calls up the ghosts of Dr. Dee and Queen Elizabeth, who seems to have been perpetually visit- ing the suburbs. In some memoirs of fifty years ago we meet stray allu- sions "to the pictures on the Kew Gardens walls." This seemed puzzling and mysteri- ous. I at last discovered that the whole wall had been covered for a mile and a half with pictures of English battleships each about six feet long, with the correct name and number of guns : they were seven or eight hundred in number. This extraordinary performance was the work of a disabled sailor, and the wonder is not " STRAND-ON-THE-GREEN " Digitized by Microsoft® Q oi O a 7: K Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE RIVER-BANK AT MOKTLAKE LONDON RIVER SUBURBS only how he accomplished, but how he was allowed to accom- plish it. He was, surely, the pioneer of our pavement artists. An odd contrast to the pastoral serenity of Kew is offered by Strand-on-the-Green, and the ungainly looking Brent- ford with its uninviting streets and shops. It always suggests to the Boswellian Johnson's rough reply to Adam Smith, who was boasting of some town in Scotland, "Have you seen Brentford?" Close by it there are some ancestral places, notably Boston House, a goodly old edifice of ripe brick, with effective gables, its lawn gently descending to the river. Within are seen fine carved chimneypieces and elaborate ceilings. But the in- teresting note is that it has remained in the possession of the same family for over a couple of centuries. This is perhaps an almost unique existence in the case of an unpretending London suburban mansion. Squalid and un- inviting as is Brentford, it is redeemed by the vicinity of the little stream from which it takes its name, the Brent, an ens^a^'inij' river which has meandered up to town from many miles away, and which the tourist has met with in some charmingly rural scenes. The approach to Kew, with the CHURCH WALK, MORTLAKE *4 ■ :■ Digitized by Microsoft® 264 LONDON RIVER SUBURBS ' STRAND-ON-THE-GREEN, KEW BRIDGE IN DISTANCE first glimpse of its graceful snowy bridge, emerging from the fringe of umbrageous trees that bend over the river, is truly inviting. The graceful structure is now menaced, on utilitarian grounds, "as being insufficient for the traffic." We can ill spare any of the old Thames bridges, and the modern substitutes, like that at Putney, rarely seem to harmonise. The Londoner is always recreated as he stands on the bridge and looks up and down the fair river. Afar off he can see yet another " Mall," and a picturesque island ; the approaching steamer, with innumerable boats clustered together ; while above the bridge the luxuriant bending trees seem to grow out of the water, and almost to touch it with their spreading boughs. The " Green " still wears its old-fashioned air. It might be in some cathedral town, spite of the tea-houses and the "trippers" who literally swarm over the grass. The tramcars which are constantly crossing it lend an animation ; the Digitized by Microsoft® THE BRENT NEAR TWYFORD 2 M Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON RIVER SUBURBS 267 houses encircling it are antique, cosy, and sound ; all save the gloomy palace close to the gardens, with its grimly austere portico and rusted walls. It recalls the distracting days of the old king's mad- ness, when the roads were alive with the carriages of the Lord Chancellor, "the Prince," and the numerous physicians, all posting down from town to inspect and report. The church on the green is not unpleasing though modernised, and has also its memories, such as the stately Court attendance of a Sunday. Here, too, we find the tomb of Gainsborough, one of the most interesting and original of our painters ; and, being lovers of Miss Burney's Diary, we must stop to linger over the headstone of a faithful retainer of the good Queen Charlotte, Mrs. Thielkley, her " dresser,'' who is often mentioned in the Diary with awe. Two routes lead to Richmond, — one by the road, the other by the river. Than the latter no promenade more agreeable could be found. The river here has a softness and pastoral tone that are most inviting; the meadows ad- joining are rich, and gay pleasure boats are con- tinually flitting by. For a long stretch the gardens of THE MILL AND LOCK, ISLEWORTH HIGH STREET, MOKTI. IKE Digitized by Microsoft® 268 LONDON RIVER SUBURBS BC0* CHURCH STREET, ISLEWORTH Kew Palace accompany us, an open gate here and there inviting entrance. By and by we come to Isleworth Ferry, second only' to that of Twickenham in interest. The little town or village creeps down to the edge of a strand, and sug- gests one of the little rusted towns we see near Rotter- dam, quite Dutch in fashion. Here is the rural-looking "Swan" Inn, and the good old picturesque church tower adds to the attraction. There are straggling streets, and old tiled roofs of Indian red, with a mill and lock, always a picturesque element. There are a few ancestral mansions of great interest, and great state also, within an easy walk of London. In the metropolis itself, since the destruction of Northumberland House, there is little left of interest in this way. Northumberland House, with its vast courtyard and beautiful gardens stretching down to the river, is now forgotten. It was an interesting speci- men of the nobleman's "hotel." It had its history too. Devonshire House, Lansdowne House, Gros- venor House, exhaust the list of these London resi- '•^4 K « ' SWAN INN, ISLEWORTH Digitized by Microsoft® K Q O Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON RIVER SUBURBS 271 KOAIl KROM THE TOWN WIIAKF, ISLEWORTH dences,whichareall modern structures. But within a mile or so of Brentford is a striking" house, pictur- esque in its traditions and associations, Osterley House, the seat of the Jersey family. This bril- liant and stately mansion is built of cheery brick and stone, in which the work of different eras has been combined in the happiest style. The centre is joined to its wings by fine colonnades, and has its " fayre " gardens, and ornamental waters crossed by a bridge. It takes us far back to the days of Sir Thomas Gresham, of Royal Exchange memory, who formed the park and built the mansion so long ago as 1577. It, of course, received the inevitable visit of Queen Elizabeth, and there is the pleasant legend of a wall being set up or pulled down — it is not agreed which — in the course of a night to gratify Her Majesty. In 1 713 it passed into the hands of the Childs, another great city family, and towards the end of last century, as the old house was much in need of repair, an ambitious restoration was carried out under the direction of one of the Adam brothers. The house was sumptuously enriched with paintings, mosaics, statuary, and STREAM AT ISLEWORTH Digitized by Microsoft® 27: LONDON RIVER SUBURBS COTTAGES FROM THE RIVER, ISLEVVORTH tapestries. There was a noble stair, the ceiling of which displayed a painting by Rubens. The walls were painted by Zucchi ; the tapestries were Gobelins. It was reported that the kitchen gardens alone entailed an outlay of some ^1500 a year. The library was the joy and envy of all bibliomaniacs, and at the " Osterley sale," which took place some years ago, was dispersed a rare collec- tion of tomes and bindings, though the prices brought were disappointing. Close by Isleworth, we come to another of these ancestral homes — Sion or Syon House, an imposing pile as seen from the river. Hither the old Lion of Charing Cross, now almost forgotten by Londoners, has been transported. This spacious ducal palace offers a stately front ; it has noble chambers, libraries, etc., the ceilings and pilasters decorated by the brothers Adam in their own special "bridecake" manner, but presenting marvels of stucco work. Its gardens are stored with every variety of curious trees, of home and foreign growth, and brought from all coun- tries. It is curious to find such handsome re- sidences so close to town. The magnificence of the Encrlish seigneur in the last century is well illustrated by the courtly C'^T' ■y"gg ^-—ar - -•--sj^-^-^- 1 Ml SION OR SYON HOUSE, NEAR ISJ.EWORTH Digitized by Microsoft® RICHMOND PARK, SHOWING THE KINGSTON ROAD UN' THE FAR HILL 2 N Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON RIVER SUBURBS 275 GROSVENOR HOUSE l-'KOM L'AKK LANE splendours of this edifice, un- pretending as it looks from the river. Mere are twelve superb columns oiverde-antiqtie found in the Tiber, and purchased in the last century by the noble owner for one thousand pounds apiece. Besides Syon House, there is its neighbour Osterley just described, Chiswick House, Caen Wood at Hampstead, and Ham House at Ham — all richly stored with paintings, curios, and art treasures of all kinds. Some of these ambitious builders entailed ruin on their fortunes, owing to the gigantic character of their efforts. We have seen the warnings of this kind furnished by Canons, the palace of the Duke of Chandos ; and by Wanstead, the magnificent building erected by the crazed Wellesley Pole ; and in our day by Kensington House, erected and all but completed by Baron Crant. It is curious that these three grand suburban mansions, each of which engulphed enormous sums, to the ruin of their owners, were all destined to be pulled to pieces and levelled to the ground ! The stair- case of Canons came to Chesterfield House ; that of Baron Grant's mansion to a millionaire's in Carlton Ter- race, to whom it seemed to bring ill luck, for before he had time to ascend the costly stair he himself was ruined. 55*- OSTERLEY HOUSE. OSTERLEY PARK Digitized by Microsoft® 276 LONDON RIVER SUBURBS It is curious, too, after only a few minutes' walk, and the crossing of the river at the tranquil Twicken- ham Ferry, to come to yet another signorial palace, perhaps the most interesting and picturesque of the three. This is the old Ham House, the mansion of the Earls of Dysart. For the stranger or wanderer I could fancy no more curious surprise than thus coming of a sudden upon this antique and gloomy pile. There it stands confronting us, upon the very edge of the river, protected by its sunken fence or ditch, its walls, and some ghostly- looking trees. The grim old house recedes, and forms a sort of open court with wings attached. Here is the tall gate of ancient twisted iron, but which hangs purposeless between its piers, never to be opened, and no one enters thereby — just like that great avenue at Cobham, the seat of the Darnleys, across which a chain is always drawn, and which is never used save for a funeral. You may walk round and round its en- closure before you find the entrance. An interesting, mansion it BY TWICKENHAM FEKRY ?*w;. ■■■- lk- - suggestive old is, but forlorn -looking to a HAM COMMON Digitized by Microsoft® TEDDINGTON LOCK Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON RIVER SUBURBS 79 HAM POND degree, silent and undis- turbed. It has an air of comfort and of being in- habited, yet no one is seen in the windows or flitting" across the court. In ovals over the windows are busts of Roman emperors, who gaze at us in a stern, stolid way, as they have gazed on so many for some two hun- dred years, it may be. This brings to mind Elia's sorrowful description of Blakesware. Within it is richly stored with portraits, paintings, tapestries, china, and all the fine garniture so necessary to set off its old chambers. More richly stored is it with traditions, such as that of the " Cabal " ; while many an interesting historical figure has trodden the boards of its lo'w-ceilinged chambers. A restoration has just been completed, and with a judicious reserve, by Mr. Bodley, at a cost of some ^60,000. The approach to Rich- mond after passing the rail- way bridge has a charm which, hackneyed as it is, has yet ever an unfailing novelty A soft air of tran- quillity and repose greets us, with a pleasing mixture of river and footpaths and villas of an old pattern, and high sloping banks richly clothed MAM IloisK Digitized by Microsoft® 2 8o LONDON RIVER SUBURBS with trees. Through the arches of the bridge we can see the windings of the river as it pursues its course on to Twickenham. Here is Asgill House, a sound and pleasing old structure ; and a little beyond a most striking old red-brick man- sion with a stately stone portico, and velvet lawn in front, smooth and level as a bowling green, with a sepulchral old cedar tree. The " Castle Inn," with its grounds and terraces over- hanging the river, has been recently swept away. At the bridge there seems a perpetual tone of lotus - eating ; the innumerable boats are laid up peace- fully, the watermen loung- ing about. Richmond town still happily keeps its old- fashioned air. The Hieh Street has something- foreign about it, and the sense of old royal traditions still seems to animate it. The Green has a character of its own, and the old houses at its edge struggle and retire backwards or lurk in corners. The range known as " Maid -of- Honour Row" is a bright gay, and gallant bit of Queen Anne building, with antique gates, bits of garden, and carved doorways. The staring white sashes of this style « THE THAMES, FROM TERRACE GARDENS, RICHMOND Digitized by Microsoft® jjS */ ^- ^^er^or^ IIAMITON COURT IiKIDCE Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON RIVER SUBURBS !83 lend a festive air. We miss, however, the old Richmond Theatre, with its interesting traditions ; it was a verv picturesque old structure somewhat suggesting Sadler's Wells, with the manager's house attached. At a corner we come to the old palace, passing under its towered archway into an enclosure, where, MAID OK HONOUR ROW, RICHMOND GREEN turned into a dwelling-house, stand the old buildings. The palace has been judiciously restored and is in verv sound condition. There is an air of quiet seclusion over this retreat which is inviting. Proceeding up the famed Richmond Hill, we pass many an old mansion, some standing in demesnes, and behind stretches of wall, over which projects the significant board which invites the cupidity of the speculative builder. By and by rows of cheap terraces will line these fair descents to the river. The view from Richmond Hill has been sung by poets, but there is often a sense of disappointment felt owing to the capriciousness of the scene. So varied and changing are its charms, that it requires residence to appreciate it. Almost as attractive is the beauti- ful terrace, well stored with "ih.- I ERR \CE WALK, KICIIMONIJ Digitized by Microsoft® 2S 4 LONDON RIVER SUBURBS fine old trees, from which it is surveyed. A little below to the right is the garden, lately the Duke of Buccleuch's, one of the best specimens of a public garden that we have, as it is without the trim stiffness of modern enclosures ; and being on a slope stretching down to the river, and adorned with venerable trees, presents an original air. And what pedestrian is not familiar with the pleasant walk across the park to Kingston, so in- of variety? How hackneyed is this of the river, Ferry — the boat over : it is no has inspired both cian. The walk on itself is charming- is the cheerful red with its old-fash- sloping gardens, on the river a sort of anima- are more thickly JiELL LANK, TWICKENHAM r . and trees, and some finely pre- served old Queen Anne mansions. Such is Twickenham by the river, invitingly picturesque, always busy with its pleasure boats and boat- ing houses. It has a different air from the snoozing tranquillity of Twickenham town, to which quaint little shaded avenues, such as Bell Lane, lead. The old houses with their tiled roofs look almost as they were a century and a half ago. The church, giving half on the river, half on the road, where it stands at the corner, has a cheerful air, and we may turn into the enclosure to read the tablet to the memory of ..';;-■ formal and full pleasant and un- tranquil portion by Twickenham drifting so lazily wonder that it poet and musi- to the little town ly varied. There of Orleans House, ioned terraces and A little farther quickens up into tion. Its banks fringed with villas Digitized by Microsoft® P.l'SIIFA' PARK Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® LONDON RIVER SUBURBS 287 JuHer )' — fWICKENHAM IKUJI THE KIYHK Mrs. Clive, the actress, affixed to the wall. Farther on, outside the town, we pass the so-called " Pope's Villa," the original having been levelled by a certain Lady Howe, a person of Hunnish or Gothic tastes, and there is also the " Little Strawberry Hill," Mrs. Clive's house, now scarcely recognised and sadly decayed. From Twickenham on to Teddington there is a delightful, varied walk, passing by Strawberry Hill. Near Twickenham Common we may notice a magnificent gate-entrance, with noble piers and carved vases, but without any mansion of corresponding pretension. We may specu- late over this survival and the reason for it, but it is not so uncommon. It is melancholy to pass by the once-famous and much-talked-of Straw- berry Hill. It has now an air of shabby dilapidation ; the old Gothic tricks and devices of its brilliant owner are now revealed like old scenery viewed by daylight. It offers a good specimen of that amateur Digitized by Microsoft® 2 38 LONDON RIVER SUBURBS "Gothic" once found in every castle and villa, with its tower, spire, "bays," all in right lath and plaster. Within are all the little rooms and corners which were the delight of the rather feminine owner, and which he had christened " the green closet," the " blue bedchamber," the "plaid bedroom," the "round drawing-room," with other fantastical names. Its traditions were carried on by the well-known Countess of Waldegrave, who gathered round her here, for a generation almost, a number of notable persons, Hayward and his " set," so that the party at Strawberry Hill became one of the fashionable events. The story of the chatelaine, her rise, and her four marriages, was in itself a romance. Now she has passed away, and all with her ; the place is now tenanted by a wealthy family. As was to be expected, some of the " fayre " meads attached have been laid out for villas, and we can now read on the boards, "The Strawberry Hill Estate." Hackneyed and even " cockneyfied " as are the associations of the old Palace of Hampton Court, it is always novel and offers an inviting charm. On some fine summer Sunday it is hard to resist its pleasantly festive air, and the jocund crowds wandering through its vast chambers and gardens. It is more interesting and varied than the much-vaunted Palace of Versailles, with its long insipid facade and in- terminable corridors. <\s you come from the railway across the ugly bridge, you catch the first glimpse of the glass)- river, winding away on its course, the gay pleasure boats float- ing lazily by ; or we note HEATH KOAD, TWICKENHAM S0ITIC ^V " poHllg " it SO '. A. Jewers, Borough Librarian). Library, Proprietary, Dover. 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Murray, Thomas, and Son, 68 Buchanan Street, Glasgow. Mursell, G A., Gloster Hotel, Cowes, Isle of Wight. Myring, Jacob, Haslemere, 1 3 Marlborough Road, N.W. Nalder, Charles Nelme, 15 Gray's Inn Square, Holborn, W.C. Nalty, Thomas Edward, Eldon Lodge, Burnt Ash Hill, Lee, S.E. Napier, George G, Orchard, West Kilbride, N.B. Neall, J. W., 11 Weighton Road, Anerley, S.E. Needes, Arthur L., 38 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, S.W. Neighbour, Miss, 96 Alexandra Road, South Hampstead, N.W. Nerney, John T., 60 Great Titchfield Street, Oxford Street, \V. Nesbitt, W. H., Byfeld House, Barnes, S.W. Nettelfield, Horace, 52 Ridge Road, Crouch End, N. Nettelfield, Richard, 7 Highbury Hill, N. Neville, George, 23 Austin Friars, E.C. Newbon, Joseph, i Wardrobe Place, Doctors' Commons, E.C. Newby, G. C, Elgin Villa, Cromford Road, West Hill, Wandsworth, S.W. Newcombe, W. L., 22 Beauclerc Road, W. Newnes, George, M.P., Wildcroft, Putney Heath, S.W. Newnham-Davis, W., 19 Greville Road, Maida Vale, W. Newson, Henry, Bank House, The Square, Fakenham, Norfolk. Newton, Arthur H., Belsize Court, Hampstead, N.W. Newton, F. Bourne, 2 Linthorpe Road, Stamford Hill, N. Newton, John, Albermarle Street, Ashtomunder- Lyne. Newton, W. M., 96 Wood Street, E.C. Digitized by Microsoft® LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS Nichoi.l, Rev. C, S., Christ Church, Streatham Oakey, Mrs. Adelaide, 299 Clapham Road, S.W Hill, S.W. Nicholson, James, 64 Cazenove Road, Stamford Hill, N. Nicholson, J. O., J. P., Upton, near Macclesfield. Nicholson, Thomas George, Denrnead, Palace Road, Streatham Hill, S.W, Nield, Ashton, 39 Park Street, Bristol. Nielp. Edward, 4 Colonnade, Clifton, Bristol. Nield, Waller, 29 Bath Street, Bristol. Nimmo, John C, 14 Ring William Street, Strand, W.C. Nimmo, J. J., Beresford Street School, Walworth, S.E. Nix, Edward J., M.D., 11 Weymouth Street, W. Noel-Cox. H. L. N., a Edinburgh Mansions, Vic- toria Street, S.W. Nolf. Eolis R., 27 Capel Road. Forest (late, E. 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O'Connor, Miss Agnes A., Connaught, 86 Elms Road, Clapham Common, S.W. Odgers, W. Blake, LL.D., Savile House, Fitz- john's Avenue, Hampstead, N.W. Offord, Joseph, 6 Boundary Road, South Hamp- stead, N.W. Ogden, Thomas, 9 Mincing Lane, E.C. Ohlson, James L, Billiter House, Billiter Street, E.C. Ohren, Mai;nus, Assoc. M.I.C.E., Lower Syden- ham, S.E. Oldfield, Thomas Albion, 55 St. John's Park, Holloway, N. Oldham, Thomas, Clooneaven, Forest Hill, S.E. Oliphant, Mrs., Woodlands, Clapham Park, S.W. Olver, Mrs. Charles, 21 Dunstanville Terrace, Falmouth. Ord, Robert, 79 New Bark Street, Devizes, Wilts. Orr, Major-General J. W, Edinburgh. Osbaldeston, Miss. Osborn, W. B., Hardwick House, 267 Birchfield Road, Birmingham. Oswald, Rev. H. M., Great Hallingbury Rectory, Bishops' Stortford. Otway, Lady, 34 Eaton Square, S.W. Overall, Alfred, i i 5 Eleanor Road, Hackney, N.E. Overton, William John, 2S Pyrland Road, Highbury New Park, N. Owthwaite, R. A., 17 South Hill Park Gardens, Hampstead, N.W. Page, Miss, Gerrard House, 42 Herbert Road, Wimbledon. Paige, Mrs., 24 Onslow Gardens, Muswell Hill Road, Highgate, N. Paine, Mrs., 179 Cromwell Road, S.W. Paine, George William, F.R.G.S., Cotswold, Farquhar Road, Upper Norwood, S.E. Pallett, Richard, Holberton, Hatherley Road, Sidcup, Rent. Digitized by Microsoft® 332 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS Palmer, Charles Frederick, 56 Aubert Park, Highbury, N. Palmer, J. C, Ashdown Lodge, Warwick Road, Ealing, W. Palmer, Fleet-Surgeon J. Linton, R.N., Rock- ferry, Birkenhead. Palmer, J. W., 56 Aubert Park, Highbury, N. Palmer, Samuel, Richmond House, Shepperton- on-Thames. Palmer, W., 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C. Pannett, Thomas D., 8 Hilldrop Road, Camden Road, N. Pape, George, Pantheon, Oxford Street, W. Parburv, Mrs. Frederick, 33 Queen's Gardens, Bayswater, W. Pargeter, Richard, Fresh Wharf, London Bridge, E.C. Parish, J. B., Woodlawn, Dulwich Village, S.E. Park, J. Dickson, 48 Queen's Gate Gardens, S.W. Park, William C. Cunningham, Beacon Lodge, Lewisham, S.E. Parke, Charles J., St. Kilda, 89 Breakspear Road, Brockley, S.E. Parker, Mrs., 58 Arthur Road, Brixton, S.W. Parker, Mrs., 35 Lee Terrace, Blackheath, S.E. Parker, Archibald, Camden Wood, Chislehurst. Parker, Henry, Rose and Crown, High Street, Wimbledon, Surrey. Parker, Henry William, Exeter Arms, Burleigh Street, Strand, W.C. Parker, William, 174 Great Hamilton Street, Glasgow. Parkes, Francis, S Grove Road, Surbiton. Parkes, J. A. Parkin, Mrs., 5 Orsett Terrace, Hyde Park, W. Parkinson, Major F. F., Paymaster, Army Pay Department, Eppleton, Streatham Park, Surrey, S.W. Parnell, John, Hadham House, Upper Clapton, N.E. Parr, Miss, 5 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, S.W. Parr, Miss E. ()., Powis Lodge, Bickley, Kent. Barrett, W. J., 27 High Street, Sittingbournc. Parsons, Mrs. Caroline. 5 1 Loughborough Park, Brixton, S.W. Parsons, Miss, 54 Queen's Road, Buckland, Portsmouth, Hants. Parsons, J. Ramsay, 33 Kensington Square, W. Passmore, F., 124 Cheapside, E.C. Pate, P., 44 Manor Park, Lee, S.E. Paterson, G. E., 26 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, E.C. Paterson, J. Y., 26 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, E.C. Paterson, William, and Co., Lovell's Court, Paternoster Row, E.C. Patient, Silvester George, 49 Devonshire Street, Islington, N. Patman, William, Hope Street, Hebden Bridge. Patten, Robert, 22 Egerton Gardens, S.W. Pattison, Miss, 7 Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. Pattison, F., 8 Gray's Inn Square, W.C. Paul, Dr. Benjamin H., 20 Victoria Street, AVest- minster, S.W. Paull, Rev. William Major, 146 Queen Victoria Street, E.C. Pawson and Brailsford, i High Street, Sheffield. Paxon, A. T., Ghyllcroft, Tanza Road, Hampstead, N.W. Payne, George W., 34 Ebury Street, S.W. Payne, H. R., ii Queen Street, E.C. Peachey, Miss, Rushmere, Hornsey Lane, High- gate, N. Peachey, B. A., Taunton, Somerset. Peacock, Miss, Biddenham, Bedford, Beds. Peacock, Thomas Francis, Fernlea, Sidcup. Peacock, W. H, Brightholme, 14 Hungerford Road, Camden Road, N. Pearce, Henry J., Haddon Lodge, ThurlowPark Road, West Dulwich, S.E. Pearce, Maresco, 22 Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, W. Pears, Andrew, Spring Grove, Isleworth. Pearson, Miss, 7 Sackville Street, Piccadilly, W. Pearson, R. H, 23 Notting Hill Square, W. Pearson, Thomas, 10 Northumberland Avenue, Putney, S.W. Pease, M. J., 317 Clapham Road, S.W. Pechey, J. T. Primrose, Rosebrae, Woodford, Essex, Digitized by Microsoft® LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS n i i S 5 5 Peckham, Henry Thornton, 26 Argyll Road, Kensington, W. Peckover, Alexander, F.S.A., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., Bank House, Wisbech. Pell, Bennett, 14 Union Court, Old Broad Street, E.C Pemberton, Thomas Joshua, 5 Dunster House, Mincing Lane, E.C. Pembroke, George P. A., 1 1 King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple, E.C. Pemsel, J. F., 13 Scarborough Road, Finsbury Park, N. Penha, Eugene de la, 114 Eaton Square, S.W. Penny. James S., 166 Alexandra Road, South Hampstead, N.W. Penzance, Lord, Eashing Park, Godalming. Pepper, Miss, 146 Sinclair Road, "West Kensing- ton. W. Perceyal. Miss, 36 Eccleston Square, S.W. Perciyal, Herbert, 14S Grosvenor Road, SAW Percy, Reuben. 5S Faroe Road, West Kensing- ton Park, W. Pereira, Miss, 3 Gloucester Street, Portman Square, W. Perfect, Edward, 7 Walterton Road, Padding- ton, W. Perry, Arthur, jun., 13 High Street, Dartford. Perry, John, i i Tyndale Place, Islington, N. Ferryman, Charles Wilbraham, The Flermitage, Guildford, Surrey. Peyton, Mrs. H., 137 Holland Road, Kensington, W. Pfleiderer, Paul, 117 Queen Victoria Street, E.C. PheLps, John, Dyffryn, Thurlow Park Road, Duhvich, S.E. Phelps, Walter, Finden House, Gough Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Phillips, Alfred, 41 Windsor Road, Ealing, \\*. Phillips, C. J., 8 Gower Street, W.C Phillips, E., Castle House, Shooter's Hill, Kent. Phillips, Frank, 7 West Hoe Terrace, Plymouth. Phillips, H., 5 Stanley Crescent, W. Phillips, Henry I)., 27 Nicholas Fane, E.C. Phillips, Henry F., 28 Brownswood Park, South Hornsey, N. Puna, ips, Hubert C, M.R.C.S.Eng.,M.and F.S.A. Fond., 30 W'estbourne Square, Hyde Park, W. I'n 1 nil's, |(iiin E, 179 Gresham House, E.C. I'nii 1. ii's, Morley, F.A.I. , Kingsleigh, Craven Park, N.W. Phillips, T. Adams, South Hill House, Bromley, Kent. PiiiLFipps, Ward, 23 Westwell Street, Plymouth. Pickering and Chatto, 66 Flaymarket, S.W. Pickering, George A., Chamberlain's Office, Guildhall, E.C. Pierce, S., 70 Brodrick Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. Piffin, John Martin, 22 Camera Square, Chel- sea, S.W. Pilditch, John Thomas, Cambridge House, Cambridge Road, Battersea Park, S.W. Pillin, Harry F., 33 George Street, Hanover Square, W. Piper, Henry D., 19 Bath Road, Swindon. Pitcher, W. N., Holly Bank, Stretford, Man- chester. Pitman, Rev. M. W., 100 Shaftesbury Road, Crouch Hill, N. Plank, George, 112 Melbourne Grove, Duhvich, S.E. Platt, J. & IF, Caxton House, 36 Fishergate, Preston. Plimsoll, Samuel, 2S Park Fane, W. Plomer, George, 4 Portland Place, Venner Road, Sydenham, S.E Pocock, F. Ernest, M.D., The Fimes, St. Mark's Road, North Kensington, W. Pocock, George Francis Mason, Belmont, Anerley Grove, F'pper Norwood, Surrey. Pot:, Lieutenant- Colonel W. H., C.B., Heywood, Ballinakill, Queen's Co., Ireland. Pohl, Mrs. Emil, 1 Cedars Road, Clapham Common, SAW Point, William John, 34 Croombridge Road, South Hackney, N.E. Poland, Mrs., Eliot Vale, Blackheath, S.E. Polden, William Waller, 169 Bird-in-Bush Road, S.F.. Pollard, [., 5 St. Nicholas Street, Truro. Digitized by Microsoft® 334 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS Pollock, Archibald Gordon, 95 Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington, S.W. Ponsonby, General The Right Hon. Sir H. F., G.C.B., etc., Windsor Castle. Pope, Miss Edith Isabel, Pluscarden, St. Ann's Villas, Notting Hill, W. Pope, George F., Fall' River, Mass., U.S.A. Pope, M., F.S.A., Thurlow Towers, Streatham, S.W. Pope, Samuel, 38 Parliament Street, West- minster, S.W. Porteous, William Sherer, Allan Bank, Corstor- phine, Edinburgh, and Sydenham, Kent. Porter, Arthur, Brookhurst, South Norwood, S.E. Potter, E. J., Wrexham. Potter, J. W. J., 4 Great George Street, West- minster, S.W. Potts, Henry John, Pont-y-Mwynwr, Mold. Potts, Thomas W., 30 Burnaby Street, Chelsea, S.W. Potts, William, F.R.C.S., 2 Albert Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. Poulton, H. D., Cauldwell, Hersham Road, Walton-on-Thames. Power, Mrs. Harriet, Avondale, St. Leonard's Road. Eastbourne. Power, Henry, 37A Great Cumberland Place, W. Power, William R., 45 Ickburgh Road, Upper Clapton, N.E. Powers, L. H., t,^ Sussex Street, Pimlico, S.W. Poynter, James F., i i Queen Victoria Street, E.G. Praill, Edward, 3 Park Road, Hampstead, N.W. Prall, Zachariah Edbury, King's Arms, 254 Edgware Road, W. Pratt, F. J. Shakespeare House, Raynes Park, Wimbledon. Pratt, Hampden W., F.R.I. B. A, 6 Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C. Pratt, Newton, Harberton, Hornsey Lane, High- gate, N. 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Purssell, Alfred, 9 Belsize Grove, N.W. Pym, Wollaston F., 20 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, S.W. Pyne, M. Taylor, New York, U.S.A. Quain, Sir Richard, Bart., 67 Harley Street, W. Quare, Horace, Cheriton, South Norwood, S.E. Quin, Cornelius, 34 Josephine Avenue, Brixton Hill, S.W. Quinton, Frederick William, Llynthill, Worple Road, Wimbledon, Surrey. Raab, Albert, 5 1 Parliament Hill Road, Hamp- stead, N.W. Rabbits, C. J. Whittuck, Westwood House, Sydenham, S.E. Rabbits, W. T., 6 Cadogan Gardens, S.W. Radford, John T., Librarian, Mechanics' Institu- tion, Nottingham. Digitized by Microsoft® LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS 335 Rae, James S., 22 Bramah Road, Brixton S.W. Rak, Robert A. V., 101 Leadenhall Street, E.G., and Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Raftery, William, 14 Ferme Park Road, Stroud Green, X. Ramsay, Edward, Groughton Lodge, near Brackley, Northamptonshire. Ramsey, William, 5 1 Gipsy Hill, Upper Norwood, S.E. Rance, T. C., 64 Acland Street, Burdett Road, E. Randolph, A. D. 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Scatliff, Mrs. Harriet, Macaulay House, Mac- aulay Road, Clapham Common, S.W. Scheltema, Rev. A. I). Adama van, 14 Upper Hornsey Rise, N. Schenkenwald, G., Bedford House, 2 2 Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, N. Schloss, S. D., 30 Leinster Square, Baysvvater, W. Schmitt, Frederick, 127A St. Thomas Road, Finsbury Park, N. Schmitz, S. H., 46 New Broad Street, E.C. Schneberger, John, 76 Avon-more Road, West Kensington, W. Schneider, George, 17 Ifield Road, West Bramp- ton, S.W. Schubbert, C, 28 Alvington Crescent, Dalston, N.E. Schulhof, Mrs., 76 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, W. Schwarz, C, 88 Wimpole Street, W. Science and Art Department, South Kensing- ton, S.W. Scotland, Sir Colley H., 44 Queen's Gate Gardens, S.W. Scott, D. H., The Old Palace, Richmond, Surrey. Scott, H. Bowes, 34 Cheyne Row, S.W. Scott, Miss Mary, 9 Milner Square, Barnsbury, N. Scott, Robert, 39 Chetwynd Road, Dartmouth Park, N.W. Scott, R. P., M.A., LL.l)., Parmiter's School, Approach Road, Victoria Park, E. 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Senhenn, Henry William, 35 St. Ewan's Road, North Kensington, W. Sennett, A. R., Maisonette, Windmill Road, Brentford. Seward, J. Bramwell, Hillside House, Ampthill, Beds. Sewell, Colonel T. Davies, 29 Grosvenor Road, S.W. Sewell, Thomas John, 313 Oxford Street, W. Seymour-Cook, Charles Lionel, Fair Green, Diss, Norfolk. Sharman, Miss, 20 West Square, S.E, Sharp, J. E., 176 Belsize Road, N.W. Sharp, Percy, Cliveden, Compayne Gardens, West Hampstead, N.W. Sharpe, Miss Emily, 32 Highbury Place, N. Sharpe, Rev. John, Heatherlie Parish Church, Selkirk, N.B. Sharpe, Miss L., 1 Highbury Terrace, N. Shattock, R. Foster, 3 Bank Buildings, Lothbury, E.C. Shead, George, 18 Laurence Pountney Hill, E.C. Digitized by Microsoft® LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS 339 Shearman, J. E., and Son, 10 Idol Lane, E.G. Sheehv, Dr., 4 Claremont Square, N. Sheffield, Mrs. F., :o Mowbray Road, Upper Norwood, S. E. Shelswell, Oscar 1!., 8 Glebe Villas, Mitcham. Shepherd, A, J., 66 Edgware Road, W. Shepherd, Major Howell, Oak House, Grove Road, Surbiton, Shepherd. James, Byron Villa, Whitehorse Road, Croydon. Shepper, Lieutenant-Colonel F. F., Birtley House, Chester-le-Street, County of Durham. Shiers, Richard, 39 Prince of Wales Road, Haverstock Hill, N.W. Shipton, Ernest R., 139 and 140 Fleet Street, E.G. Shore. George Henry, 10 Handen Road, Lee, Kent. Short, John, 10 Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill, W. Short. Thomas, 52 Fountayne Road, Stoke Xewington, X. Shrimpton, George, ioi Leadenhall Street, FIG. Shuter, W., 22 Belsize Grove, N.W. Sibbald, John Gordon Edward, 3 Townshend Villas, Richmond, Surrey. Sidderj. William, i i Richmond Crescent, Barns- bury, Islington, N. Simmons, Miss, 33 Lower Seymour Street, Port- man Square, W. Simmons, F. S., 12 Grove Gardens, St. John's Wood, X.W. Simmons, Henrv, The Crouch, Seaford, Sussex. Simms, Oscar, 156 Battersea Park Road, S.W. Simms, S. W., Bath. Simon, Mrs. Maria, Widmore Lodge, Bromley, Kent. Simonds, C. V., Old Ship, Mare Street, Hackney. N.E. Si.mpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Stationers' Hall Court, and 32 Paternostei Row, E.C. Simpson, Rev. Dr., F.S.A., 9 Amen Court, E.C. Simpson, Alexander James, 56 Winchester House, Old Broad Street, E.C. Simpson, David Chisholm, 199 Camberwell Crove, Denmark Hill, S.E. Simpson, Frank, 69 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Simpson, George, Newmarket, Cambs. Simpson, Henry, Meadowfield, Whitby. Simpson, William, 7 1 ,\ St. Giles's Street, North- ampton. Sims, Robert Owen, 9 Hale Street, New North Road, Islington, N. Sindall, Owen, 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C. Sindall, Robert Langford, 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C Skeffington, W. E, 24 Sheffield Terrace, Ken- sington, S.W. Skellorn, James J., 45 Golden Lane, E.C. Skinner, Thomas, M.D., Waylands, Beckenham, Kent. Slack, Josiah William, 142 Walmer Road, Notting Hill, W. Slaughter, Richard, i The Terrace, Richmond Hill, Surrey. Slipper, Benjamin Shipley, Hasbro' Villa, Oliver Grove, South Norwood, S.E. Sly, Charles, 9 Tower Terrace, Wood Green, N. Smail, David M., Jedneuk, Hendon, N.W. Smallpeice, Gilbert John, Manager and Secretary, Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, S.W. Smart, F"rancis G., Bredbury, Tunbridge Wells. Smart, John, Lyndhurst, 107 Lordship Road, Stoke Newington, N. Smart, Lady R., Rothbury House, Chiswick Mall, W. Smeaton, Miss Luenda, Elphinstone, Carlton Road, Putney, S.W. Smerdon, Richard, 44 Crayford Road, Hollo- way, N. Smith, Basil Woodd, Branch Hill Lodge, Hampstead Heath, N.W. Smith, Benjamin, 12 I'oet's Road, Canonbury, N. Smith, Crafton E, 18 Upper Wimpole Street, W. Smith, David P., 3 Wakehurst Road, Wandsworth Common, S.W, Smith, Miss E., 10 Highbury Place, N. Smith, Edward A., 57 Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, N.W. Digitized by Microsoft® 340 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS Smith, E. Fisher, 34 Avenue Road, Regent's Park, N.W. Smith, Mrs. E. S., 6 Mercer's Road, Holloway, N. Smith, Francis V., 19 Harrington Gardens, South Kensington, S.W. Smith, George Cunningham, 5 Parsifal Road, West Hampstead, N.W. Smith, George Septimus, Gresham House, Old Broad Street, E.C. Smith, George Thomas, Coniscliffe, 165 Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. Smith, H. St. Lawrence, 32 Perran Road, Tulse Hill, S.W. Smith, Harold Fisher, 34 Avenue Road, N.W. Smith, Horace, 128 and 130 St. Ann's Road, Stamford Hill, N. Smith, H. W., i i St. Oswald's Road, West Brompton, S.W. Smith, J., 20 Portland Street, Kilmarnock. Smith, John, M.B., 4 Stapleton Hall Road, Stroud Green, N. Smith, J. E., Rosendale Villa, Rosendale Road, West Dulwich, S.E. Smith, J. G, 42 Montpelier Road, Peckham, S.E. Smith, Rev. J. H., B.A., Alleyn's School, Dulwich, S.E. Smith, J. R., The Hollies, Hill Lane, South- ampton. Smith, J. Walter, 8 Lawn Road, Haverstock Hill, N.W. Smith, Mrs. Michael, 8 Oxford Gardens, Notting Hill, W. Smith, Noble, 24 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, W. Smith, Mrs. Seth, Leeford, Mowbray Road, Upper Norwood, S.E. Smith, Rev. Sidney A., The Vicarage, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Smith, Dr. Stanley, 10 Kensington Gardens Square, W. Smith, Stanley George, 5 Parsifal Road, West Hampstead, N.W. Smith, S. H, Great Yarmouth. Smith, S. J. Woodham, 6 New Inn, Strand, W.C. Smith, Thomas, A.C.A., 4 Castle Street, Hereford. Smith, Mrs. Walter, i Gloucester Gardens, Richmond, Surrey. Smith, W. B., 70 Caversham Road, Camden Road, N.W. Smith, Walter Ernest, Head Master's House, Orphan Working School, Maitland Park, N.W. Smith, W. H., and Sons, 186 Strand, W.C. Smith, W. J., 41-43 North Street, Brighton. Smither, Arthur, Ferncliife, Meadvale, Redhill, Surrey. Smyth, Hon. Lady, 24 South Eaton Place, S.W. Smythe, Major Frederick, 35 Mattock Lane, Ealing, W. Snellgrove, William, i i Clifton Road, Brockley, S.E. Snelling, William Walton, 3 Cornwall Road, Stroud Green, N. Sneyd, Miss, 24 Notting Hill Terrace, W. Snowden, Frederick, Aberglaslyn, Amhurst Park, N. Solomon, David, 81 Alexandra Road, N.W. Solomon, W. W., High Street, Baldock, Herts. Sonnenschein, William Swan, 62 Russell Square, W.C. Soper, William Edward, Littlefield Lodge, 2 Linden Grove, Nunhead, S.E. Sotheby, Major- General F. E., Ecton, North- ampton. Sotheran, H., and Co., 49 Cross Street, Man- chester. Sothers, H. C, 29 Mincing Lane, E.C. Soulsby, W. J., The Mansion House, E.C. Southcott, James Deagon, 20 Southwood Lane, Highgate, N. Southern, Mrs., Vanderbilt Court, Harrogate. Southey, Mrs., Rosenthal, Dacres Road, Forest Hill, S.E. Southgate, Mrs. C, 22 Holland Road, Brixton, S.W. Southgate, S. Tufnell, Hazelwood, Upper Nor- wood, S.E. Southgate, T. L., Epsleadale, Jasper Road, Gipsy Hill, S.E. Southward, John, 86 Loughborough Road, S.W. Digitized by Microsoft® LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS 341 Southwell, Charles J., Hook Field House, Bridgnorth. Sparkes, James, 90 Hampton Road, Forest Gate, Spaull, S. B., 6 The Mall, Ealing, W. Spencer, A. C, 77 Cannon Street, E.C Spencer, John \Y., Fernleigh House, Trowbridge, Wilts. Spencer, Sydney, 77 Cannon Street, KC. Spencer, Thomas, Market Place, Richmond, Yorks. Sperati, Thomas, 5 Mitre Court, Milk Street, Cheapside, E.C Spicer, John H.. The Lodge, Alton, Hants. Spiers, A. H., M.A., Newton College, South PeYon. Spiers, R. Phene, F.S.A., Carlton Chambers, 12 Regent Street, W. Spriggs, J. F., 1 De Crespigny Terrace, Denmark Hill, S.E. Spring-Branson, The Hon. J. H., Advocate- General, Nungumbaukum, Madras. Springfield, George. Spry, William J. J., R.N., F.R.G.S., F.R.Hist.S., Therapia, St. Andrew's Road, Southsea, Hants. Spurgeon, Miss C, 62 Abingdon Villas, Kensing- ton, W. Squire, E. Burnard, 14 Great James Street, W.C. Squire, W. Steyens, 30 St. John's Wood Park, N.W. Stallibrass, Mrs. Alfred, Hilldrop House, 1 Hilldrop Road, Camden Road, N.W. Stanford, Robert F., Rookfield, Perry Rise, Forest Hill, S.E. Stanlake, R., Salisbury Road, Plymouth. Stanley, Charles, 20 Corrance Road, Brixton, S.W. Stanley, Herbert T., Balliol College, Oxford. Stannus, Hugh, F.R.I.B.A., 61 Larkhall Rise, S.W. Stanton, Charles Holbrow, 65 Redcliffe Gardens, S.W. Stanton, J. G., Nelson Lodge, Queen's Road, Clifton, Bristol. Starkey, Frederick, 27 New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, E.C. Statu am, Charles Joseph, Elmdene, Cranwick Road, Amhurst Park, N. Stead, Richard William, Chaseley, 67 Crystal Palace Park Road, Sydenham, S.E. Stedman, Charles Mason, F.S.I., The Turret House, Telford Park, Strcatham Hill, S.W. Stedman, James Mathew, 2 Forest Drive East, Leytonstone, Essex. Stedman, R. B., Godalming. Steel, George, 16 Hemingford Road, Barnsbury, N. Steel, George Rattcliff, Woodlands, Bexley, Kent. Steggall, Professor J. E. A., 9 Park Place, Dundee. Stein, Andrew, Broomfield, Copers Cope Road, Beckenham. Stennett, Mrs. Elizabeth, Myddleton Road, Wood Green, N. Stephens, Alfred, 3 St. Leonard's Terrace, Chelsea, S.W. Stephens, J. H., 21 Alpha Road, Millwall, E. Stephenson, John, Borough Treasurer, Town Hall, Grimsby. Stevens, A. B., M.B., Springfield, 'Pulse Hill, S.W. Stevens, B. F., Trafalgar Square, W.C. Stevens, Benjamin F., President of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Stevens, Edwin W., 87 The Common, Upper Clapton, N.E. Stevens, William,' Selsdon Park, Croydon. Stevenson, H. E., Avondale, Long Ditton Hill, Surrey. Stevenson, Thomas, M.D., 45 Gresham Road, S.W. Stewart, Joseph, 16 Kensington Court Mansions, W. Stewart, Reginald Halley, Rochester, Kent. Stewart, Major-General Shaw, 61 Lancaster Gate, W. Stidolph, E. Spencer, Langdale House, Green- wich, S.E, Stilwell, John Pakenham, Hilfield, Yateley, Hants. Digitized by Microsoft® 34? LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS Stimson, Edwin - Charles, A.R.I.B.A., Cuba House, Atherton Road, Forest Gate, E. Stock, E. Herbert, i Eaton Crescent, Clifton, Bristol. Stockdale, Albert, Woodhouse Hill, Hudders- field. Stokes, Adolphus Frederick, Fairlight Villa, Umfreville Road, Harringay, N. Stokes, Henry J., Fernbank, Bromley, Kent. Stokes, John, Apsley House, Margate. Stone, W. S., 19 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, W. Stoneham, Frank, 79 Cheapside, E.C. Stonhill, W. John, 58 Shoe Lane, E.C. Storr, Edwin, Robey Villa, Hornsey, N. Storrs, William, J. P., Fern Bank, Stalybridge, Cheshire. Story, George Arthur, L.D.S., R.C.S., Vale House, Canterbury. Stott, Charles Ernest, The Polygon, Broughton, Manchester. Stoughton, T.W., 34 Beulah Hill, S.E. Strachan, J. G., Farm Hill Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Strachey, Leonard M., J. P., D.L., Junior United Service Club, S.W. Straker, Albert G., Gilmerton, Nottingham Road, Croydon. Straker, Vincent Henry, 1 24 Fenchurch Street, E.C. Straker, Walter, 12 Womersley Road, Crouch \~. End, N. Stratford, Mrs. Francis Thomas, 23 The Park, Ealing, W. Strong, N. W., 230 High Road, Chiswick. Stroud, William, Chronicle Office, Coleshill, near Birmingham. Strudwick, T, 72 Dartford Road, Dartford. Sturley, Arthur Dyson, 62 Old Broad Street, E.C. Sturley, John H, 55 Marquess Road, Canon- . , .- bury, N. Stutfield, Alfred R. O., 77 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, W.C. Sulivan, Miss, Broom House, Fulham, S.W. Surrey, r C. R., 10 Neville Terrace, South Ken- sington, S.W. Sutherland, Her Grace The Duchess of, Stafford House, S.W. Sutherland, George, Arboretum Square, Derby. Sutherland, Robert, 28 Woodside Place, Glasgow. Sutton, Mrs., 38 Gloucester Street, Belgrave Road, SAY. Sutton, F. M., 173 Aldersgate Street, E.C. Swann, Edward J., The Gables, Leigh Woods, near Clifton, Bristol. Swann, Joseph Francis, Mansfield House, Burnt Ash Hill, Lee, S.E. Swindells, George H, 7 Cranbourne Road, Heaton Moor, near Stockport. Swinstead, Rev. J. Howard, M.A., The Church House, Salisbury. Swinton, A. A., Tregunter Lodge, Gilston Road, South Kensington, S.W. Sykes, M. C, Regent Street, Barnsley. Symons, Mrs. M. A., 36 Hamlet Road, Upper Norwood, S.E. Taff, Charles, i The Grove, Hackney, N.E. Tait, A. Fraser, 62 Hatcham Park Road, New Cross, S.E. Talbot, Charles, Alton Lodge, 40 Haverstock Hill, N.W. Talbot, J. G, M.P., 10 Great George Street, S.W. Taplin, John, East End, Havant, Hants. Tarleton, Alfred H, Breakspears, Uxbridge. Tarrant, W., Elmhurst, Beckenham, Kent. Tassell, James, Faversham. Tate, William, Rossendale, 89 Cazenove Road, N. Tattersall, William, Quarry Bank, Blackburn. Tautz, Edmund, Colombe Lodge, Ealing, W. Tautz, Fred. G, Dibdin House, Hanger Hill, Ealing, W. Taylor, Alfred E., 93 Kennington Road, S.E. Taylor, Charles H, Leighton House, Leighton Road, N.W. Taylor, Rev. Charles J., Banstead, Surrey. Taylor, Miss Elizabeth Tyler, 18 The Parade, Monmouth. Taylor, George, 22 Harley Street, Bow, E. Digitized by Microsoft® LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS 343 Taylor, J. Allkx, 5 Spencer ^Tllas, Soutlifields, SAY. Taylor, M. Aixsworth, 10 Buckley Road, Brondesbury, N.W. Taylor, Robert C, Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E., St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin. Taylor, Colonel Thomas, Dulwich College, Dulwich, S.E. Taylor, Tom E., 10 St. John's Terrace, Rose- bery Avenue, E.C Tebav, Frederick, ia Poland Street, W. Tegxer, A.. 107 Fenchurch Street, E.C. Texisox, Major W., Myrtle Lodge, Hampstead Heath, N.W. Terry, Miss, Lyceum Theatre, W.C. Terry, James, 143 Tufnell Park Road, N. Thacker, Samuel John, 22 Montague Street, Russell Square, 'W.C. Thatcher, Thomas, College Green, Bristol. Theak, Frederic, 28 Jewin Crescent, Cripplegate, E.C. Theologos, G., 282 Devonshire Road, Honor Oak Park, S.E. Thobwrn. Ralph Glascott, 33 St. Bride Street, Ludgate Circus, E.C. Thoburx, Raphe M., 33 St. Bride Street, Ludgate Circus, E.C. Thom, George, LL.D., Dollar, Scotland. Thomas, Edward, 7 2 High Street, Tewkesbury. Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth, 69 Gower Street, W.C. Thomas, J. Rochelle, Worthgate House, 32 Kelvin Road, Highbury Park, N. Thomas, William, 105 and 107 Talbot Road, Bayswater, W. Thomasox, Yeoville, F.R.I.B.A., 9 Observatory Gardens, Kensington, W. Thompson, C. H., The Rectangles, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, S.E. Thompson, George H., Baileygate, Alnwick. Thompson, Rev. J. Pulleix, Hon. Sec, Christian Blind Relief Society, St. Stephen's Vicarage, North Bow, E. Thompson, Mrs. M. A., 2 Oxford Road, Putney, S.W Thompson, Richard, 91 Lewisham High Road, New Cross, S.E, Thompson, R. W., 95 St. John's Wood Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. Thompson, T. A., Glenhaven, 79 Lady Margaret Road, Brecknock Road, N.W. Thompson, T. W., i Derngate, Northampton. Thompson, W. J., Ash ford, Kent. Thomson, David Croal, Holly Village, Highgate, N. Thomson, Mrs. James, Thornhigh, The Ridgway, Wimbledon. Thomson, J. Campbell, Edina, Orleans Road, Hornsey Rise, N. Thomson, Robert Tickell, 35 Moorgate Street, E.C. Thomson, W. W., Tam worth, Mitcham, Surrey. Thomson-Sinclair, W. S., Dunbeath Castle, Caith- ness, N.B. Thorburn, Archibald, 88 Fellows Road, South Hampstead, N.W. Thornber, Joseph Harry, .Bedford Lodge,. Earlham Grove, Forest Gate, Essex. Thorne, Leonard Temple, Ph.D., 8 Dynevor Road, Richmond, Surrey. Thornton, Joseph, and Son, 11 Broad Street, Oxford. Thornton, Thomas, 23 Egerton Gardens, S.W. Threlfall, Thomas, 19 Hyde Park Terrace, W. Tice, Thomas, Linden Cottage, 39 Park Hill, Clapham, S.W. Tillerd, Mrs. F. N., 32 Belsize Square, Hamp- stead, N.W. TiM/Eus, C. F., Bedford. Tinline, J. M., The Grange, Whimple, Devon. Tinne, H. W., Union Club, Trafalgar Square, S.W. Tipper, Harry, 3 5 The Grove, Hammersmith, W. Tipping, Colonel William Fearon, Brasted Park, Sevenoaks. Todd, George, St. Sebastian, 20 Colinett Road, Putney, S.W. Tolcher, Miss Emily, 70 Church Road, Rich- mond, Surrey. Tomalin, Lewis R. S., 20 Cambalt Road, Putney Hill, S.W. Tonge, Charles F., 8 Upper Park Place, Rich- mond Hill, Surrey. Digitized by Microsoft® 344 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS Tookey, Robert Harry, Bridgen Villas, Forty Hill, Enfield. Topham, Miss M., 25 Churchfield Road, Ealing, W. Torre, Rev. Henry John, Norton Curlieu, near Warwick. Tosh, Henry, jun., 19 India Street, Glasgow. Tottenham and Holmes, Brill, Bucks. Touch, George A., 47 Goldhurst Terrace, South Hampstead, N.W. Tower, Christopher J H, Weald Hall, Brent- wood. Trayfoot, Harold G, 23 Rona Road, Hamp- stead, N.W. Treble, John, 15 Marlborough Place, St. John's Wood, N.W. Tresise, Josh. N., Torrington House, Burton-on- Trent. Trew, Anthony R. R, M.S.A., 22 Broad Street, Bristol. Trewinnard, Miss, 23 Crofton Road, Camber- well, S.E. Trigg, Mrs. John, Strathpeffer, Boston Road, Han well, Middlesex. Trinder, Frederick (M.D. University of Ten- nessee, U.S.A.), 10 Chepstow Place, Bays- water, and 2 7 Kennet Road, St. Peter's Park, W. Trist, John W., F.S.A., F.S.I., etc., 62 Old Broad Street, E.C. Tritton, Miss A., 5 Gordon Road, Ealing, W. Tritton, William Birch, 51 Carleton Road, Tuf- nell Park, N. Trowbridge, Miss, 126 Holland Road, Kensing- ton, W. Truscott, Alderman Sir Francis Wyatt, Oak- leigh, East Grinstead, Sussex. 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