South London . ANCIENT BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET, DOROUGH{From a Drawing by T. Higham, 1820) burned way: they were laden with fevers and malaria and putrid sore throat. The High Street of Southwark is now a crowdedthoroughfare, because it is the main artery of a town con- IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 255 taining a population of many hundreds of thousands. In thelast century it was quite as animated because it was one ofthe main arteries by which London was in communicationwith the country. An immense number of coaches, carts,. THE FALCON TAVERN, BANKSIDE waggons, and caravans passed every day up and
South London . ANCIENT BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET, DOROUGH{From a Drawing by T. Higham, 1820) burned way: they were laden with fevers and malaria and putrid sore throat. The High Street of Southwark is now a crowdedthoroughfare, because it is the main artery of a town con- IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 255 taining a population of many hundreds of thousands. In thelast century it was quite as animated because it was one ofthe main arteries by which London was in communicationwith the country. An immense number of coaches, carts,. THE FALCON TAVERN, BANKSIDE waggons, and caravans passed every day up and down theHigh Street, some stopping or starting in Southwark itself;some going over London Bridge to their destination in theCity. The coach of the first half of the century can berestored from Hogarth. That of the latter half of the •56 SOUTH LONDON century was in all respects like the revived coaches of thepresent day, adapted for rapid travelling along a smoothroad. The carts were carriers carts on two wheels with atilt or cover; they carried parcels and small packages, andon occasions, but not always, one or two passengers. The
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