The Dover road annals The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike doverroadannalso00harp Year: 1922 26 THE DOVER ROAD the grounds in a gorgeous dress, looped up to the knees, to show the stars with which her petticoats were spangled : with silver wings on her shoulders, and drinking from a peAvter pot of porter, after the use and wont, between the acts, of the pantomime fairies of Drury Lane. With this Princesse au cafe chantant disappears the last vestige of royalty hereabouts, and Greenwich, lying down beyond the Park, has only dim memories of Henry the Eighth, and Queen Elizabeth, who
The Dover road annals The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike doverroadannalso00harp Year: 1922 26 THE DOVER ROAD the grounds in a gorgeous dress, looped up to the knees, to show the stars with which her petticoats were spangled : with silver wings on her shoulders, and drinking from a peAvter pot of porter, after the use and wont, between the acts, of the pantomime fairies of Drury Lane. With this Princesse au cafe chantant disappears the last vestige of royalty hereabouts, and Greenwich, lying down beyond the Park, has only dim memories of Henry the Eighth, and Queen Elizabeth, who was born in the palace of Placentia beside the Thames. GREEXWICH OBSERVATOrvY If you venture into the Park, and stand upon Observatory Hill, you can at once glimpse London and gain an idea of how plebeian Greenwich has become. But its history is not yet done, and on this ver}^ spot, in 1893, a chapter of it was made by a foreign Anarchist who blew himself up in the making ; and when the park keepers came and gleaned little pieces of him from
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