Haunted London
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Preface
9:27 -
Introduction
7:22 -
Temple Bar
48:01 -
The Strand (South Side) Part 1
35:17 -
The Strand (South Side) Part 2
30:42 -
Somerset House Part 1
27:18 -
Somerset House Part 2
32:08 -
The Strand (South Side, Continued)
54:37 -
The Savoy
44:06 -
From the Savoy to Charing Cross
43:53 -
The North Side of the Strand from Temple Bar to Charing Cross with Digressions to the South Part 1
34:50 -
The North Side of the Strand from Temple Bar to Charing Cross with Digressions to the South Part 2
31:44 -
The North Side of the Strand from Temple Bar to Charing Cross with Digressions to the South Part 3
36:22 -
Charing Cross Part 1
40:15 -
Charing Cross Part 2
40:41 -
Charing Cross Part 3
37:26 -
St. Martin's Lane
44:12 -
Long Acre and its Tributaries Part 1
28:12 -
Long Acre and its Tributaries Part 2
31:39 -
Drury Lane Part 1
46:55 -
Drury Lane Part 2
51:03 -
Drury Lane Part 3
49:54 -
St. Giles's Part 1
29:28 -
St. Giles's Part 2
48:04 -
Lincoln's Inn Fields Part 1
46:54 -
Lincoln's Inn Fields Part 2
52:11 -
Lincoln's Inn Fields Part 3
46:26
Haunted London (1880) is a public domain work.
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Streets, houses and vanished landmarks carry the weight of earlier lives in Walter Thornbury's account of London. The haunting promised by the title comes chiefly from historical memory rather than apparitions. Organised by district and thoroughfare, the book connects particular addresses with writers, artists, public figures and the city's changing social habits. Its preface treats rebuilding as a threat to these associations and sets out a plan to preserve them through documented anecdotes.
The pages on St. Martin's Lane bring this approach into focus through coffee houses, artists' lodgings and literary institutions. Fuseli's work on The Nightmare sits alongside recollections of John Wilkes and an assessment of the Royal Society of Literature. These local details give readers a way to trace how cultural life gathered around specific places. For anyone interested in London's past, the book offers history at the scale of a street or a doorway.
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- Walter Thornbury
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- About 11 hours
- Pages
- 295
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
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