Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . :;;)5^^.^^irr. HAMiSTKAlJ, KKOM IHb; K1L13UKN ROAD Old and New London: A NARRATIVE OF Its History, its People, and its Places. JUujStratfD toititi nunnroiw ®ngcat)(ng5 from tijc mo^t Qiwt^tmt Source^. THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN SUBURBS, BY EDWARD WALFORD. VOL. V. Cassell Petter & GaLPIN: LONDON, PARIS if NEW YORK. (,11 739^ CONTENTS, THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN SUBURBS. CHAPTER I. BELGRAVIA. ^^^^^ Prefatory Remarks—The Building of the District—De Moret, and his Flying-machine—Nature of the Soil of Belgravia— Slender Billy


Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . :;;)5^^.^^irr. HAMiSTKAlJ, KKOM IHb; K1L13UKN ROAD Old and New London: A NARRATIVE OF Its History, its People, and its Places. JUujStratfD toititi nunnroiw ®ngcat)(ng5 from tijc mo^t Qiwt^tmt Source^. THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN SUBURBS, BY EDWARD WALFORD. VOL. V. Cassell Petter & GaLPIN: LONDON, PARIS if NEW YORK. (,11 739^ CONTENTS, THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN SUBURBS. CHAPTER I. BELGRAVIA. ^^^^^ Prefatory Remarks—The Building of the District—De Moret, and his Flying-machine—Nature of the Soil of Belgravia— Slender Billy—The Spanish Monkey Mukako and Tom Cribbs Fighting Dogs—The Orosvenor Family—Enormous Rent-rolls—Belgravia andBethnal Green compared—Lanesborough House—St. Georges Hospital—Old Tattersalls—St. Georges Place—Liston, the Comedian—Popes School-days—The Alexandra Hotel—The Old Toll-gate at Hyde Park Corner—Grosvenor Place—The Feathers Tayem,and how George Prince of Wales was made an Odd Fellow there—Arabella Row—A Witty Lord Chancellor—The Bag ooldnewlondonnarr05thor


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