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Contents vol. I Book I – The City Introduction – The Story of London 1. The First and Second Cathedrals of St. Paul 2. The Builder and the Building of the Third St. Paul’s 3. St. Paul’s: Descriptive 4. St. Paul’s Churchyard 5. Paternoster Row 6. Cheapside 7. Around Cheapside 8. The Guildhall 9. The Crypt and Subsidiary Buildings 10. Incidents in the History of the City Corporation 11. The City Corporation: Its Constitution and Functions 12. Around the Guildhall 13. The Mansion House 14. The Royal Exchange 15. The Stock Exchange 16. The Bank of England 17. Around the Bank 18. Around the Bank (concluded) 19. Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street 20. Aldgate, Crutched Friars and the Minories 21. The Tower 22. From the Royal Mint to Eastcheap 23. Lower Thames Street 24. The City Bridges 25. Upper Thames Street 26. Castle Baynard and Blackfriars 27. Queen Victoria Street and Cannon Street 28. Gracechurch Street and Bishopsgate Street 29. From Bishopsgate to Aldersgate 30. Aldersgate Street and St. Martin’s-le-Grand Book II – Westminster and West London 31. Little Britain and Smithfield 32. St. Bartholomew’s: Priory and Hospital 33. Christ’s Hospital 34. Newgate and the Old Bailey 35. Newgate Street to Holborn Circus 36. Holborn Circus to Holborn Bars 37. Farringdon Street, the Fleet, and New Bridge Street 38. Ludgate Hill 39. Fleet Street 40. Some Fleet Street Tributaries 41. Whitefriars 42. The Temple 43. The City of Westminster 44. Westminster Abbey: to the Dissolution 45. Westminster Abbey: after the Dissolution 46. Westminster Abbey: Descriptive 47. Old Westminster 48. The Royal Palace of Westminster and St. Margaret’s 49. Westminster Hall and Palace Yard 50. Old Whitehall St. Paul’s and the River (Rembrandt Photogravure) Frontispiece Tournament in Chepe to Celebrate the Black Prince’s Birth Sir Henry Picard Entertaining the Kings of England, France, Scotland, and Cyprus Liverymen of the Merchant Taylors’ Company Colonel Blood’s Attempt upon the Crown Jewels in the Tower Robert Fitzwalter Receiving from the Lord Mayor the City’s Banner Crosby Hall in 1908 St. Bartholomew’s-the-Great after Restoration The Inner Temple Gate-house Funeral of Edward the Confessor Westminster Abbey The King’s Champion Entering Westminster Hall at the Coronation of George IV Contents vol.II Book II – Westminster and West London (continued) 51. Modern Whitehall - page 569 52. The Victoria Embankment - page 580 53. The Strand: Historical - page 590 54. The Modern Strand - page 602 55. Some Strand Tributaries - page 616 56. Aldwych and Kingsway - page 623 57. Covent Garden - page 630 58. Charing Cross, Spring Gardens and Trafalgar Square - page 646 59. Leicester, Soho and Golden Squares - page 662 60. Regent Street to Park Lane - page 676 61. Piccadilly - page 696 62. Between Piccadilly and Pall Mall - page 706 63. Pall Mall - page 719 64. St. James’s Palace and Park, the Green Park and Buckingham Palace - page 729 65. Belgravia and Pimlico - page 739 66. Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Knightsbridge - page 745 67. The Royal Borough: Kensington Palace to Holland Park - page 757 68. The Royal Borough (continued): Holland House and North Kensington - page 766 69. The Royal Borough (concluded): Queen’s Gate, Earl’s Court, Brompton, South Kensington - page 773 70. Chelsea - page 787 71. Chelsea (concluded) - page 798 72. Fulham - page 806 73. Hammersmith - page 813 74. Paddington - page 823 Book III – Central, North and East London 75. Finsbury - page 830 76. Finsbury (concluded) - page 841 77. Holborn: From Ely Place to Queen Square - page 848 78. Holborn: The Southern Wards - page 857 79. Holborn: Bloomsbury - page 866 80. St. Marylebone - page 873 81. St. Marylebone (concluded) - page 883 82. Hampstead - page 891 83. St. Pancras - page 905 84. St. Pancras (concluded) - page 913 85. Islington - page 925 86. Shoreditch - page 935 87. Stoke Newington - page 943 88. Hackney - page 948 89. Bethnal Green - page 957 90. Stepney - page 963 91. Poplar - page 979 Book IV – South London 92. Southwark - page 985 93. Lambeth - page 1002 94. Battersea - page 1020 95. Wandsworth - page 1026 96. Camberwell - page 1036 97. Bermondsey - page 1048 98. Deptford - page 1056 99. Lewisham - page 1062 100. Greenwich - page 1069 101. Woolwich - page 1080 102. The Thames and the Port of London - page 1089 Book V – The Future in London Index - page III List of Plates 1. South Front of Clarendon House, Piccadilly, about 1670 - Frontispiece 2. The Strand in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century - Facing page 598 3. Leicester Square in 1727 - page 664 4. Westminster Roman Catholic Cathedral - page 744 5. Sir Thomas More’s House - page 792 6. Hall of Gray’s Inn - page 852 7. Nave and Choir of the Catholic Apostolic Church - page 908 8. Canonbury House - page 928 9. Southwark Cathedral: Choir and Nave - page 988 10. Clapham Common in 1825 - page 1034 11. Old Dulwich College - page 1046 12. Greenwich Hospital, from the River - page 1070 | ||||