South London . , a single court in Lambeth ; it is described asunpaved, unglazed, unlighted, dirty, and insanitary. But thelast salmon had been caught in the river; the Thames fisher-men were by that time almost starved out of existence. I amsure that the south was always their place of residence; theforeshore offered them what they could not find on the northbank. To him, however, who considers the fisheries of theThames, there are many points on which, for want of exactinformation, he may speculate and theorise as much as hepleases. For instance, later on, there were fishermen living THE FIR
South London . , a single court in Lambeth ; it is described asunpaved, unglazed, unlighted, dirty, and insanitary. But thelast salmon had been caught in the river; the Thames fisher-men were by that time almost starved out of existence. I amsure that the south was always their place of residence; theforeshore offered them what they could not find on the northbank. To him, however, who considers the fisheries of theThames, there are many points on which, for want of exactinformation, he may speculate and theorise as much as hepleases. For instance, later on, there were fishermen living THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS 15 at Limehouse. Some of the Thames watermen lived herealso—the legend of Awdry the ferryman assigns to him aresidence on the south ; their favourite place of residence,however, was St. Katherines first, and VVapping afterwards. The Roman remains found up and down the place provemy assertion that the people who lived here were what weshould call substantial. One need not catalogue the long list. RELICS OF THE STONE AGE of Roman trouvailles ; but, to take the more important, in theyear 1819 there was discovered, in taking up the foundationsof some old houses belonging to St. Thomass Hospital, in Street, a fine tesselated pavement, about ten feetbelow the surface of the ground. In the following year, inthe area facing St. Saviours Grammar School, seven or eightfeet below the surface, there was found another, of a more l6 SOUTH LOxMDON elaborate design. Only a part of this was uncovered, as theGovernors of the School forbade further investigation : itremains to this day still to be examined and unearthed, underthe present potato and fruit market. At the entrance ofKing Street, at a depth of fifteen or sixteen feet, were founda great many Roman lamps, a vase, and other sepulchraldeposits. And in tunnelling for a new sewer through BlackmanStreet and Snow Fields, in 1818 and 1819, and again inUnion Street, in 1823, numerous Roman antiquities were dis-cover
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