Fifty years ago . Indeed ! Were the City church-yards of such dimensions ? The preservation of theburial-grounds is like the respect which used to be paidto the First Day of the week in the early lustra of theVictorian Age by the tobacconist. He kept one shutterup. So the desecrators of the City churchyards, Godsacre, the holy ground filled with the bones of deadcitizens, measured off a square yard or two, kept onetomb, and built their warehouses over all the rest. All round London the roads were blocked everywhereby turnpikes. It is difficult to understand the annoy-ance of being stopped cont
Fifty years ago . Indeed ! Were the City church-yards of such dimensions ? The preservation of theburial-grounds is like the respect which used to be paidto the First Day of the week in the early lustra of theVictorian Age by the tobacconist. He kept one shutterup. So the desecrators of the City churchyards, Godsacre, the holy ground filled with the bones of deadcitizens, measured off a square yard or two, kept onetomb, and built their warehouses over all the rest. All round London the roads were blocked everywhereby turnpikes. It is difficult to understand the annoy-ance of being stopped continually to show a pass or topay the pike. Thus, there were_ two or three turnpikes LONDON IN 1837 41 in what is now called the Euston Eoad, and was thenthe New Eoad ; one of them was close to Great PortlandStreet, another at Gower Street. At Battle Bridge,which is now Kings Cross, there were two, one on theEast, and one on the west; there was a pike in St. JohnStreet, Clerkenwell. There were two in the City Eoad,. LYONS INN IN 1804(From an Engraving in Herberts History of the Inns of Court) and one in New North Eoad, Hoxton; one at Shoreditch,one in Bethnal Green Eoad, one in Commercial fewer than three in East India Dock Eoad, three inthe Old Kent Eoad, one in Bridge Street, Vauxhall; onein Great Surrey Street, near the Obehsk ; one at Kenning-ton Church—what man turned of forty cannot remember 42 FIFTY YEARS AGO the scene at the turnpike on Derby Day, when hundredsof carriages would be stopped while the pikeman wasfighting for his fee ? There was a turnpike named afterTyburn, close to Marble Arch ; another at the beginningof Kensington Gardens ; one at St. Jamess Church,Hampstead Eoad. Ingenious persons knew how toavoid the pike by making a long detour. The turnpike has gone, and the pikeman with his
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