Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . t suited his ownpurpose so to do to the detriment of the leathermanufacturers. The ancient usages of the districtwere brought forward in evidence, and the resultwas that the right of the inhabitants to a supply hood of the Grange and Neckinger Roads. Manyof the largest establishments in Bermondsey were foryears dependent on the tide-stream for the water—very abundant in quantity—required in the manu-facture of leather. Other manufacturers, however,constructed artesian wells on their premises, whilethe mill at the mou
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . t suited his ownpurpose so to do to the detriment of the leathermanufacturers. The ancient usages of the districtwere brought forward in evidence, and the resultwas that the right of the inhabitants to a supply hood of the Grange and Neckinger Roads. Manyof the largest establishments in Bermondsey were foryears dependent on the tide-stream for the water—very abundant in quantity—required in the manu-facture of leather. Other manufacturers, however,constructed artesian wells on their premises, whilethe mill at the mouth of the stream was workedby steam power, so that the channel itself becamemuch less important than in former this ditch, or tide-stream, as it wassometimes called, was under the management ofcommissioners, consisting of the principal manu-facturers, who were empowered to levy a smallrate for its maintenance and repair. The Neckinger Mills, which cover a large spaceof ground between the Neckinger Read and the Bermondscy. ] THE NECKINGER TIDE-STREAM. 127. GARDEN FRONT OF JAMAICA HOUSE CHERRY GARDEN STREET, WITH JAMAICA HOUSE. {From Original Drawings, 1S26.) 128 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Bermondsey. South-Eastern Railway, were erected a century j tells us how, on one occasion, he was induced toor more ago by a company who attempted the I pay a visit to this place, and how, when he reached manufacture of paper from straw; but this failing,the premises passed into the hands of others whoestablished the leather manufacture. An attempt was made in the latter part of thelast century to raise Bermondsey to the dignityof a fashionable watering-place. Although thatportion of the district near the river was so closeand filthy, there were, as stated above, pleasantfields stretching away towards the Kent abbots fat meadows were still green; and,indeed, a singular characteristic of the easternparts of Bermondsey to this day (especially notice-able from the railway) is
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