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Mercer’s
Hall, Cheapside Frontage, as it was rebuilt after the
Great Fire
Haberdashers’
Hall, Maiden Lane, Wood Street.
Grocers’
Hall, Poultry Street
The Fishmongers’
Hall, Thames Street
The Goldsmiths’
Hall, Foster Lane
The Salters’
Hall, Oxford Court, St Swithin’s Lane
Skinners’
Hall, Dowgate Hill
Merchant
Taylors’ Hall, Threadneedle Street
Merchant
Taylors’ School, east side Suffolk Lane, Thames
Street.
Drapers’
Hall, Throgmorton Street, near the junction with Broad
Street
Ironmongers’
Hall, north side of Fenchurch Street
Vintner’s
Hall, Upper Thames Street
Clothworkers’
Hall, Mincing Lane, Fenchurch Street
East India
House, Leadenhall Street
Chinese
pagoda and bridge in St James’ Park
The
Temple of Concord in Green Park.
The new
Mint on Tower Hill
Interior
of St Katharine’s by the Tower
Entrance
to London docks in the newly excavated areas of St John’s
Wapping (between about 1795-1815).
Shoreditch
church, which faces the end of Old Broad Street
Bethlem
Hospital
St Luke’s
Hospital
The Dutch
Church in Austin Friars
The auction
mart
St Stephen’s
Walbrook
The interior of the Hall
of the Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity in St Botolph’s
parish Aldersgate as remaining in February 1790.
St Mary
le Bow Church Cheapside
St Bartholomew’s
West Smithfield
St Bart’s
Hospital West Smithfield
The Charterhouse,
the old porch and the interior of the Great Hall
St John’s
Gate Clerkenwell
A view of Blackfriar's
Bridge with St Paul’s in the background.
Interior of the Heralds’
College
The new
iron bridge over the Thames from Queen street (Southwark
Bridge)
View on
Fish Street Hill
New Custom
House
Tower of
London
Trinity
House Tower Hill
St Dunstan’s
in the East
View of St
Bride’s church from the River Thames
St Etheldreda’s
Ely Place
The Savoy
View along
the Strand
Two views of old Somerset
house and the Savoy.
The Strand
bridge
St Martin’s
Church Westminster
Northumberland
House, London
St Paul’s
Church Covent Garden
Drury Lane
theatre
Covent Garden
Theatre
North west view of the Palace
of St James, Westminster
Carlton
House Pall Malll
The Treasury
and Horse Guards
View down
Parliament Street showing the Treasury
Plan showing the
proposed new Parliament Street and approaches to Westminster
Bridge
St George’s
Church Hanover Square
Westminster
Bridge
Buckingham
House, home to Queen Charlotte.
Earl Spencer’s
House, Green Park
Bullock’
Museum, Piccadilly
Lansdowne
House Westminster
Temple Church
The surgeon’s
new theatre Lincoln’s Inn Field
The British
Museum
The Foundling
Hospital
The north side of Cavendish
Square
The blind beggar George
Dyball
Two blind
beggars, hanging about Westminster
Old blind
beggar and attending small boy
A tall blind
man with a long staff
A blind
man
A blind
man who sold halfpenny ballads down the road of Bethnal
Green
Charles
Wood, a blind man
Priscilla,
a blind woman, inhabitant of St James, Clerkenwell
Taylor,
a blind shoe-maker
William
Kinlock.
A sturdy
impostor who makes chains from a piece of ash
Joseph Thake
and his son sell their rattles in St Paul’s churchyard.
Joseph Johnson,
from the merchant’s service.
Charles
McGee, a native of Ribon in Jamaica, born in 1744
Samuel Horsey
has been a London Beggar since 1785.
John Mac
Nally, a beggar about Parliament Street.
A Jew Mendicant
of Petticoat Lane.
William
Tomlins, a street-crossing sweeper.
A street
sweeper of the crossing at the top of Ludgate Hill.
A lad
who sweeps the crossing of Prince’s street, Hanover
Square.
Match boys
selling their wares.
Daniel Cropp
Mr Lilly,
who lost his leg while working on building repairs in Westminster
William
Frasier, who lost both his hands in battle.
Two street
itinerants on May Day.
Two bone
pickers about the parish of St Martin’s
Bill Row
and John Taylor, two grubbers.
William
Friday, who sells mushrooms
A bird-mimicker.
Beggars
on their way back to the workhouse for the night.
Highgate
street scene
Chelsea
from the river
Fulham
Brandenburgh
House on banks of Thames
Kensington
Palace
St Pancras
church
Kenwood
mansion (or Caen or Cane Wood in the 18th century)
Child’s
Hill House
Highgate
archway
Hackney
Church
Stepney
church
West India
Docks, Poplar.
Chiswick
Chiswick
House, seat of the duke of Devonshire in the 18th century.
Castle-hill
Lodge, one mile out of the village of Ealing.
Twyford
Abbey
Finchley
Church
Isleworth
Syon House
(Sion House), situated on the Thames between Old Brentford
and Isleworth.
Twickenham
Marble Hall
Alexander
Pope’s house at Twickenham.
Strawberry
Hill near Twickenham, Horace Walpole's home.
House in
Whitton on the edge of Hounslow-heath
Osterley
House and Heston
Spring Grove
at Smallbury Green.
Hampton
Court Palace
Hampton
House in Hampton village
Sunbury
Place in Sunbury
Parish church
of Staines
Staines
Bridge.
Delaford
Park, 2 miles south-west of Uxbridge
Harefield
Place near Harefield
Harlington
church porch
Stanmore
House, just to the west of the village of Stanmore.
Canons,
parish of Whitchurch.
Harrow on
the Hill.
Bentley
Priory
Hendon
- the church.
Bruce Castle,
Tottenham.
Tottenham,
view of the Church
Wyer Hall,
Edmonton
Arno’s
Grove in Southgate.
Trent House,
Enfield.
Enfield,
view of the church
Wrotham
Park near South Mims
South Mims
(or Mimms) View of the church
Holland
House, Kensington
Hornsey,
Middlesex
Greenwich
Hospital
Waltham
Abbey - needs text
London
from Greenwich Park
View of St
Paul’s up Ludgate Hill
Chingford,
view of the church
Eltham Palace
View of London
from Westminster
Crosby Hall
Large gateway in the south-east corner of Crosby
Square leading toward St Mary Axe.
Christ’s
Hospital
Great Fire
of London 1666
The Mansion
House
St Andrew
Undershaft
Bow Bridge,
Stratford le Bow
Lambeth
Palace
Temple Bar
from Butcher Row (or Butcher's Row)
Old Houses in Butcher
Row.
Remains of Canonbury,
Islington
Interior of the Great
Hall, Charterhouse
Charterhouse
Square
Barking
Essex
Sadler's
Wells
Royal College
of Physicians
St Saviour’s
Southwark (St Mary Overies, or Overy)
Remarks regarding the dissolution
of the monasteries
Remains
of St Bartholomew Priory, Smithfield
St Bartholomew-the-Great Priory
Views of the cloisters
of St Bartholomew
Interior of the church
of St Bartholomew
Marks Hall,
Essex
Eton College
Hampstead
Kentish
Town and Highgate from the south
Hampstead
Church
Highgate
chapel
Richmond
(View from Richmond Hill)
Winchester
Palace
Royal Exchange
Courtyard
of the Royal Exchange.
Chiswick
village
London Docks,
Wapping
Walthamstow,
church
Villa of
John Rolls, Esq., New Cross, Kent Road
Southwark
An ancient building on Bishopsgate
Street
A different view of Drury
Lane theatre
New Drury
Lane theatre
Edmonton
Hornsey
church
Deptford
from the Greenwich Road
Fulham
(another view)
Paddington
Enfield
Church
Mitcham
Tooting
Woolwich
The villa
of John Elsee, Esq, Chigwell Row
Powder Mills,
Waltham Abbey
Battersea
Knights
Hill near Dulwich (Seat of Lord Thurlow)
Aldgate
House, Bethnal Green
Edgware
Enfield
Wash
Hackney
Islington
Villa
in the Regent's Park
St Andrew's
Place, Regent's Park
Temple Bar
from the Strand
St Paul's
from the Thames
Banqueting
House, Whitehall
Somerset
House, the Strand
The Old
White Hart Tavern, Bishopsgate Street.
The British
Museum, Great Russel Street
Carpenter's
Hall, London Wall.
Old London
Bridge
New London
Bridge, first pile driven 1824, opened on 1st August 1831.
The Lord
Mayor's Procession under the new London Bridge
The King's
Mews, Charing Cross.
The Admiralty
Office
West Smithfield
market
Hungerford
Market, the Strand.
Whittington
College, College Hill.
Herald's
College, Bennet's Hill
Saddler's
Hall, Cheapside.
The Late
Fleet Market (now Farringdon Street).
Fleet Prison
The Fleet
River
St Stephen,
Walbrook.
St Mary
Woolnoth
The Mansion
House, from the Bank
The tablet
in Pannier Alley.
The entrance of Bull
Head Court
Exeter Change,
Strand.
Church of
St Leonard, Shoreditch.
St Clements
Danes, Strand
St Dunstan's
in the West.
Town Hall,
Borough High Street, Southwark.
Buckingham
Water Gate, Strand.
Statue of
Guy, Earl of Warwick. West end of Warwick Lane in Newgate
Street.
The London
Stone
The church
of St Swithin, London Stone
Cheapside,
Poultry and Bucklersbury.
Aldgate
South Sea
House, north-east extremity of Threadneedle Street.
Excise Office,
Broad Street.
Sir Paul
Pindar's House, Bishopsgate Street.
Church of
St Dionis, Backchurch, Fenchurch Street
Chapel St
John the Baptist, Savoy.
Stationers'
Hall, Stationer's Court.
Mincing
Lane, north side of Tower Street
Middlesex
Hospital, Windmill Street, Tottenham Court Road
Pensioner's
Hall, Charterhouse.
Middle Temple
Hall. This page has an explanation of the Knights Templar
and the temples etc.
Inner Temple
Plan of
the Temple Area
Interior
of the Temple Church
The parish church of St
Lawrence Jewry
Clifford
Inn Hall, Fleet Street
The King's
Weigh House.
The Coal
Exchange in Thames Street
Near the middle of Bow Lane is the early seventeenth-century
church of St
Mary Aldermary.
St Michael
stood on the south side of Cornhill
St Olave
Jewry on the west side of Old Jewry
Piccadilly,
from Coventry Street
Middle Row,
Holborn
Gray's Inn
Hall, Chapel and Library.
Prospect
of Gray's Inn
Inns of
Court and of Chancery
Lincoln's
Inn Hall, Chapel, and Chancery Court.
Prospect
of Lincoln's Inn
Spitalfields,
view of Christ Church
Another view of St
Dunstan's in the East
Cornhill
and Lombard Street, from the Poultry.
Church of
St James Clerkenwell, situated on the north side of Clerkenwell-green.
Church of
St Margaret Pattens, south-east angle of Rood Lane.
Church of
St Giles, Cripplegate, Fore Street
Barber-Surgeon's
Hall, Monkwell Street.
Cordwainers'
Hall, north side of Distaff Lane.
Church of
St Edmund the King, Lombard Street.
Church of
St Antholin, Sise Lane and Watling Street
The Church
of St Martin Outwich, Bishopsgate Street
Inn-Holders'
Hall, Great Elbow Lane.
Girdlers'
Hall, on the east side of Basinghall Street
Dyers' Hall,
little Elbow Lane
Church of
Allhallows, Bread Street.
St James,
Garlick Hill.
St Mary
Aldermanbury
Painter-Stainer's
Hall on the west side of Little Trinity Lane.
Waterman's
Hall, St Mary's Hill.
Winchester
House, south-west corner of Winchester Street.
Church of
St James, south side of Piccadilly, Westminster.
Church of
St Peter le Poor, on the west side of Broad Street
Serjeant's
Inn, Chancery Lane
Staples'
Inn on the south side of Holborn
The Monument,
Fish Street Hill
Church of
St Austin, Watling Street at the corner of the Old Change.
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