Fifty years ago . e altered, you think. Already Exeter Change isgone; Exeter Hall is already built; the shops are lesssplendid, and plate glass is as yet unknown; in Holy-well Street I can show you one or two of the old signsstill on the house walls; Butcher Eow, behind St. Cle-ment Danes, is pulled down and the street widened ; onthe north side there is standing a nest of rookeries andmean streets, where you will have your Law Courts ;here is Temple Bar, which you will miss; close toTemple Bar is the little fish shop which once belongedto Mr. Crockford, the proprietor of the famous club;the s
Fifty years ago . e altered, you think. Already Exeter Change isgone; Exeter Hall is already built; the shops are lesssplendid, and plate glass is as yet unknown; in Holy-well Street I can show you one or two of the old signsstill on the house walls; Butcher Eow, behind St. Cle-ment Danes, is pulled down and the street widened ; onthe north side there is standing a nest of rookeries andmean streets, where you will have your Law Courts ;here is Temple Bar, which you will miss; close toTemple Bar is the little fish shop which once belongedto Mr. Crockford, the proprietor of the famous club;the street messengers standing about in their whiteaprons will be gone in your time; for that matter, sowill the aprons ; at present every other man in thestreet wears an apron. It is a badge of his rank andstation; the apron marks the mechanic or the serving- 56 FIFTY YEARS AGO man; some wear white aprons and some wear leatheraprons ; I am afraid you will miss the apron. Fleet Street is much more picturesque than the-. THE PARISH ENGINE(From a Drawing by George Cruiksliank in Sketches bj- Boz ) Strand, is it not? Even in your day, Eighty-seven,,when so many old houses will have perished, Eleet Streetwill still be the most picturesque street in all London.
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