Fifty years ago . THE SECOND LONDON EXCHANGE Edward I. to George IV. Sion College, which until theother day stood in the street called London Wall, was. THE PRESENT EOYAJj EXCHANGE (tHIED LONDON EXCHANGE) not yet wantonly and wickedly destroyed by those whoshould have been its natural and official protectors, theLondon clergy 36 FIFTY YEARS AGO Things happen so quickly that one easily forgets;yet let me pay a farewell tribute and drop a tearto the memory of the most delightful spot in thewhole of London. The building was not of extremeage, but it stood upon the ancient site of Elsinge Spital,w
Fifty years ago . THE SECOND LONDON EXCHANGE Edward I. to George IV. Sion College, which until theother day stood in the street called London Wall, was. THE PRESENT EOYAJj EXCHANGE (tHIED LONDON EXCHANGE) not yet wantonly and wickedly destroyed by those whoshould have been its natural and official protectors, theLondon clergy 36 FIFTY YEARS AGO Things happen so quickly that one easily forgets;yet let me pay a farewell tribute and drop a tearto the memory of the most delightful spot in thewhole of London. The building was not of extremeage, but it stood upon the ancient site of Elsinge Spital,which itself stood upon the site of the old Cripple-gate Nunnery ; it was founded in 1623 by the willof one Dr. Thomas White, Vicar of St. Dunstans-in-the-West ; the place was damaged by the Great Fire,and little of the building was older, I beheve, than 1690,or thereabouts. But one stepped out of the noise andhurry of the very heart of London into a courtyardwhere the air was instantly hushed ; on the right handwere the houses of the almsmen and women, though Ibelieve they had of late ceased to occupy them. Abovethe almshouses was the long narrow
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