. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. that people couldwalk upon it from Battersea Bridge to HungerfordStairs. In Hughsons London we read that theyear 1814 began with an immense fog which lastedabout a week, during which a number of accidentsoccurred. On the 8th of Januarj, however, tliefog disappeared, in consequence of a change ofwind; and a frost then set in, almost as unexampledin its duration and severity as the fog had been for 3i8 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [The Thames. its density. The frost continued with little inter-mission till the 2oth of March. O
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. that people couldwalk upon it from Battersea Bridge to HungerfordStairs. In Hughsons London we read that theyear 1814 began with an immense fog which lastedabout a week, during which a number of accidentsoccurred. On the 8th of Januarj, however, tliefog disappeared, in consequence of a change ofwind; and a frost then set in, almost as unexampledin its duration and severity as the fog had been for 3i8 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [The Thames. its density. The frost continued with little inter-mission till the 2oth of March. On the 31st ofJanuary several persons walked across the Thamesbetween London and Blackfriars Bridges ; andon the 3r(l of February a sheep was roasted onthe ice on the same spot, and the whole space Recollections having spent this bitter winter inLondon, and having walked from Blackfriars toLondon Bridge on the ice, dirty, and impure, andlumpy as it was. He describes it as a drearv-looking scene. He adds, however, The serpen-tine skaters, the promenading, the streets piled up. THE SCHOOL HOARD OFFICES. (See/>ag-e 2^6.) between the two bridges had become a completefair. Thousands of persons were seen movingin all directions; about thirty booths were erectedfor the .sale of porter, spirits, &c., as well as forskittles, dancing, and other diversions. Severalprinters had i^resses on the ice, and pulled offvarious impressions, for which they found a veryrapid sale. So long a continuance of cold weatherhas seldom been experienced in pur Redding vcronls in his Iifty Years with snow and ice, and the well and ill-clad spec-tators, as they were then combined, were amusingnovelties. A cotemporary account states, with minute pre-cision, that on the morning of Sunday, the 30th ofJanuary, 1814, huge masses of ice quite blockedup the Thames between London and BlackfriarsBridges, and that no less than seventy ])crsonswalked across from Queenhithe to the oppositesliore. O
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