Holditch, Jessica, 157–8
Holland, Mistress, 25
Holland’s Leaguer (gaming place), 25, 87, 95
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 27–9
Hollingshed, John, 167–70
Hooper, June, 212
Hop Exchange, 95, 165, 191, 220
Hope Theatre, 31, 34
Hopkinson, Henry, 191
Horne family, 89, 97, 120, 147
Horne, Anthony, 118–19, 121
Horne, Benjamin, 76
Horne, Thomas, 83, 104, 121, 167
Horne, William, 139–40, 179
House, the see Cardinal’s Wharf (house; 49 Bankside)
Howatt, Revd J. Reid, 186
Hulbert, Jack, 201
Hudson, Thomas, 53
Humphreys, Sarah, 53
Hungerford Railway Bridge, 162, 229
Hydraulic Power Company, 183
Illustrated London News, The, 210
Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company, 141
Industrial Revolution, 94
Inn and Goat stairs, 43
iron manufacture, 59, 95
Isaacs family, 197
Isaacs, Ernest David, 197
Isaacs, Moss (iron-merchant), 155–6, 176, 179, 192, 197–8
Isaacs, Moss II, 192, 196
Isaacs, Samuel, 192, 196
Isaacs, Samuel & Sons (iron merchants), 193
James I, King (James VI of Scotland), 16, 45
Johnson, Samuel, 48, 85, 96–7
Johnstone’s London Commercial Guide and Street Directory, 120
Jones family, 89
Jones & Sells (coal-merchants), 120, 140, 154
Jones, Inigo, 60
Jones, Mr (iron-founder), 59
Jonson, Ben, 31
Jubilee Walkway, 223, 226
Keen and Smither’s Coal Wharf, 102
Killingworth, William, 83
Kimpton, Edward and Ellen, 192–3
King’s Bench prison, Southwark, 11, 93
Lambeth: water supply, 151
Lambeth Marsh, 229
latrines, 87–8
Lee, Anna (Joan Boniface Winifrith; Mrs Robert E. Stevenson), 199–204, 208
Lettsom, Dr John Coakley, 92, 96, 109
lightermen and lighterage, 76–8, 139, 219
Lingard and Sadler’s Mustard Manufactory, 102
London: south bank, 8–10; street lighting introduced, 39, 103; population growth, 53, 55, 90–1, 110; rebuilding and development, 54, 58, 60–2; class structure, 65–7; fogs and pollution, 73–5, 92, 155; conditions in mid-late eighteenth century, 90–4; industrial development, 94; expansion, 110–11; Underground, 115; panoramas, 134–5; sewage and drainage system, 152; railways, 161–2; Abercrombie plan for, 208–9, 217; dock closures and port decline, 218–19; see also Great Fire; Great Plague; Southwark
London Bridge: links City of London with Southwark, 1, 9–10, 232; negotiated by watermen, 43; in Great Fire, 52; and new bridges, 78; rebuilding, 95, 126, 130, 136; replaced, 223; in nursery rhyme, 232
London Bridge railway station, 162, 164
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, 161
London, Chatham & Dover Railway, 162–3
London County Council (LCC), 9, 217, 219; see also Greater London Council
London Dock, Wapping, 218
London Electricity Company, 191
London Hydraulic Power Company, 159, 183, 221
London School Board, 159
Maid (or Maiden) Lane, Southwark, 36–7, 49, 55
Mallison family, 192
Mann, Revd William, 143, 147–8, 171, 179
Mansell (or Mansfield), Thomas, 30
maps and town views, 26–8, 49–50, 134
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of, 58
Marlowe, Christopher, 31
Marshalsea prison, Southwark, 11, 134
Mary I (Tudor), Queen, 24
Mary, Queen of Scots, 14
Mason stairs, 15–16, 43, 100, 177
Massinger, Philip, 37–8
Matthews, Jessie, 201
Mayhew, Henry, 137–8, 167–8, 185
Meade, Dr Richard, 108
Mearns, Andrew: The Bitter Cry of Outcast London, 170
Meath, 12th Earl of see Brabazon, Reginald
Metropolitan Board of Works, 9, 127, 152
Metropolitan Public Garden, Playground and Boulevard Association, 114
Metropolitan Railway, 162
Millennium Bridge, 2, 178, 228
Mills, Sir John, 201
Millwall Dock, 219
Montagu-Pollock, Fidelity, 205
Montagu-Pollock, Prudence (née Williams), 204–5
Montagu-Pollock, Sir William, 204–5
Montague, C.J.: Sixty Years in Waifdom, 187
Morgan, William see Ogilby, John, and William Morgan
Morley family, 193
Morning Chronicle, 167
Morning Post, 167
Morris, William, 99
Moss Alley, 58, 178, 195
Munthe family, 206
Munthe, Axel, 206
Munthe, Guy, 224–6, 231
Munthe, Hilda (née Pennington-Mellor), 206
Munthe, Ludvig Malcolm, 206–8, 210–12, 214–15
Newington Butts, 116
Norfolk, John Howard, 1st Duke of, 21
North Southwark Community Development Group, 227
Oakeshott, Michael, 212
Oberon, Merle, 201
Ogilby, John, and William Morgan, 50
Old Swan stairs, 43
Oldner family, 64, 83
Oldner, Sir Richard, 54
Oldner, Sir William, 65, 147
Overend Gurney bank, 159
Oxford Canal, 105
Oxo Tower, 15
Paddington Basin, 106
panoramas, 134–5
Paris Garden, Southwark, 12–15, 17, 25, 36–7, 55
Paris Garden stairs, 14
Paris, Robert de, 13
Park Street, Southwark, 37
Paving Act (1786), 103
Peabody, George, 166
Peak Frean (biscuit manufacturer), 184
Peasants’ Revolt (1381), 23
Penny Magazine, The, 136
People’s Refreshment House Association Ltd, 191
Pepys, Samuel, 6, 31, 42, 50–3, 73
Perkins, John, 97–8, 104, 127
Perronet, Edward, 107
Phoenix Gas Company, 141, 183
Pigot’s New Commercial Directory, 109–10, 143
Place, Francis, 169
plague: declines in eighteenth century, 92; see also Great Plague
Platter, Thomas, 32
Pond Yard, 17, 58
Pool of London, 8, 136, 217–18
Poole, Mr & Mrs (servants), 202
Poor Law Act (1834), 123
Pott, Robert (vinegar manufacturer), 102, 127, 129
Powell, John, 30
Power Station, Bankside see Bankside; Tate Modern
Price, Samuel, 82
Price’s oil stores, Bankside, 155
Prickett, Thomas, 104
printing, 95
Pritchett, Sir Victor S., 192–3, 231; London Perceived, 217–18
prostitutes (‘Winchester geese’), 20–3, 25
Puritanism, 25
Pye Garden, the (Pike Garden), 15–16, 82, 195
Quaker Meeting House, Bankside, 56
Queen’s Wharf, Bankside, 177
Ragged School Union, 187
railways, 126, 132, 135, 138, 155, 161–2
Raven, John, 19, 30
Reformation, 24
Regent’s Canal, 106
Rennie family (bridge builders), 13, 95
Rennie, John, 101–2, 133, 223
Restoration, 49, 53
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 96
Richard III, King, 12
road traffic, 77
Rocque, John, 83, 94
Rolfe family, 190–1
Rolfe, Henry, 183–4
Romans: in London, 9–10
Rose Theatre, 31, 33–5, 45, 227
Rotunda, Southwark (later Surrey Institute), 101
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 108
Royal Barge House, Southwark, 15, 43
Rush, Samuel, 104
Rymen, Devonish, 35
Sainsbury’s (company), 184, 221
St George’s church, Southwark, 11
St George’s Fields, Southwark, 91, 99–100
St John, Knights of, 12, 14
St Katharine’s Dock, 218
St Margaret’s church, Southwark, 11
St Mary Magdalene church, Southwark, 11
St Mary Overie’s Dock, 27–8, 71, 215, 220, 226
St Mary Overy’s church, Southwark (later St Saviour’s), 10–11, 27
St Mary Overy’s priory, Southwark, 11
St Olave’s parish church, Bermondsey, 11
St Paul’s Bridge (proposed), 3–4; see also Millennium Bridge
St Paul’s cathedral (old), 48, 52
St Paul’s cathedral (Wren’s), 58–9
St Peter’s church, Bankside, 129, 222
St Peter’s school, Emerson Street, Southwark, 184
St Saviour’s parish church: origins in St Mary Overy, 11–12, 27; rates, 17, 127–9; parish population, 43, 55–6; altered in Commonwealth, 47; burial ground, 51, 112–15; house building, 55; free schools (National and Parochial), 56–7, 154, 184, 220; Poor Rate and Land Rate records, 64; workhouse, 101, 112, 123–4; unheated, 117; poor relief, 118–19, 123–5; repair and rebuilding, 125–9, 135, 229; burial registers, 150; and railway development, 163
St Thomas à Becket’s hospital, Bermondsey, 11
St Thomas’s Hospital, Lambeth, 153, 163
Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert, 209, 221, 228
Sells family: Betjeman on, 79; as Bankside residents, 80–1, 89, 143; leaves Bankside, 142, 153, 156, 171; association with Charringtons, 159; family tree, 249
Sells, Arthur, 154
Sells, Sir David Perronet, 159
Sells, Edward: in coal trade, 79, 84, 105; occupies houses on Bankside, 81–2, 86, 88, 146; in Waterman’s Company, 83; marriage and children, 84–5; death and will, 89, 106; market sale, 107; in lighterage, 129
Sells, Edward II: follows father’s business, 84–5, 105–6; as waterman, 89–90, 105–6; public and parish activities, 104, 116, 118–20, 122–3, 125, 127–9, 131; marriage and children, 106, 109, 123–4, 143; retires to Camberwell, 110, 127; youth, 111; death, 130; and water closets, 144
Sells, Edward (of Walthamstow), 127
Sells, Edward Perronet (Edward II’s son): birth, 106–7, 109, 132; as waterman, 124; public and parish activities, 125–7, 130, 154; on rebuilding of London Bridge, 130; moves from Bankside to Bristol, 131, 133; children, 132, 150; death, 133, 156; Bankside houses, 146, 153; in family business, 150; in brother Vincent’s will, 151
Sells, Edward Perronet II, 133, 151, 153–4, 159, 198
Sells, Edward Perronet III, 159
Sells, Elizabeth (Edward Perronet II’s wife), 157
Sells, John, 107, 109, 124, 157–8
Sells, Martha (Edward’s wife), 84
Sells, Sophia Elizabeth (Edward Perronet II’s daughter), 107, 109, 151–2, 155, 158
Sells, Sophia Gardiner (née Briggs; Edward Perronet II’s wife), 106–7, 109
Sells, Vincent: birth, 107, 109; schooling, 124; subscribes to church restoration, 127; resides at and improves Bankside house, 143, 146–7, 198; death and will, 150–1; in family business, 150; leaves Bankside, 150
Sells, William, 116
Selznick, David, 204
Serota, Sir Nicholas, 228
servants, 66–7
sewage, 82–3, 87–8, 144–6, 149, 152–3
Shakespeare, Edmund, 36
Shakespeare, William, 5, 30, 36, 223
Shallett, Arthur, 64
Shallett, Edmund, 64, 81, 83–4, 147
Shallett’s meeting house, Bankside, 56
Silkin, Lewis, 210
Sims, George R., 170
Skin Market, 149, 194, 216, 231
Smith, Edmund, 83–4
Smith’s balloon view of London, 135–6
Snow, John, 151
Snowden, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, 222
Society of Owners of Coalcraft, 77
South Bank Centre, 230
South London Press (newspaper), 165
South London Visiting Relief Association, 168
South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company, 141
Southwark: as borough, 9–11, 127; disputes with City of London, 11–12; inns and innkeeping, 17; graveyards, 20–1, 51, 111–15; character in early seventeenth century, 38–40; street paving and lighting, 39, 103; under Commonwealth, 48; layout, 49; fires, 52, 101–2, 103, 155–6; house-building and population, 55–6; coaches and coaching, 77, 132; urbanisation, 90, 99, 133; in Gordon Riots, 93; trades and industry, 94–6, 102, 136; mineral springs and spas, 99–100; children’s education in, 125; railways, 126, 132, 135, 138, 155, 161–3; cholera epidemics, 151; absorbed into London, 152; drainage system installed (1860s), 152–3; development in late 19th century, 164–6; Metropolitan Police in, 170; cinemas, 196; bombed in Second World War, 205; post-war planning and rebuilding, 208–11, 216–17; post-war industrial and commercial changes, 216, 219–20; population decline (1950s–60s), 217; empty warehouses, 219; present-day character, 232; see also Bankside; London; St Saviour’s church
Southwark Bridge, 2, 95, 133, 135
Southwark Environment Trust, 228
Southwark Fair, St George’s Fields, 91, 99
Southwark Street, 163, 165
Southwark & Vauxhall Waterworks, 151, 159
Sphere, The (magazine), 210
steamships, 137–9
Stevenson, Cecilie, 197, 199–200
Stevenson, Robert E., 196–204, 230;Darkness in the Land, 199
‘stews’, 16, 21
Stonor, Thomas, 88
Stow, John, 17, 20, 31, 43, 56, 180;Survey of London, 22–4
Strype, John, 58
Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Bridge Road, 175
Surrey County Gaol, Southwark, 11
Surrey Institute see Rotunda
Surtees, C.E., 154–5, 158–9
Sutton, Joseph, 171
Swan Theatre, Southwark, 25, 31
tanning, 94, 96, 193
Tate Modern (formerly Bankside power station), 2–3, 15, 228–30
Taylor, John (‘the water poet’), 36, 43–7, 77, 117, 139
Templars, 12
Thames, river: and transport, 41–2; freezes over, 46, 117; in Great Plague, 51; horse ferries, 77–8; new bridges, 78, 90, 133; sewage pollution, 82–3, 87, 144–5, 149, 153; and canals, 105–6; shipping and docks, 136–9; fish and fishing, 145; water supply from, 145; railway bridges, 162; industry and trade relocated post-war, 217–19; see also watermen
theatres: established north of river, 50; see also Globe Theatre; Rose Theatre; Swan Theatre
Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 201
Thrale, Henry, 48, 65, 93, 96–8, 147
Thrale, Hester (Hester Lynch Piozzi), 66, 85, 96, 99
Thrale, Ralph, 83, 95–6
Tilbury, 218
Tiller, Thomas, 88
Tradescant family, 48–50
Trinity Square, Southwark, 150
Tuckfield family, 173–5, 198
Tuckfield, Joseph, 172–3
Tuckfield, William, 172
Twentieth Century Society, 228
Unicorn Alley, 195
Union Street, Southwark, 112
Upper Ground, Southwark, 14
Vauxhall Bridge, 133
Vikings, 10
Visscher, Nicholas John, 26–7, 38
Walbrook, 82
Wanamaker, Sam, 33, 226–8
Wandsworth Prison, 159
Ware, George, 151
Warren family, 184
Warren, Edith, 184
water closets, 87, 144–6
Waterloo Bridge, 2, 95, 133, 135, 229–30
Waterman’s Arms (inn), 177–8, 183, 191
watermen: occupation and activities, 42–5; in Great Plague, 51; merge with lightermen, 77–8; rights and status, 77; resist new Thames bridges, 78; regatta (1775), 88; and advent of steamships, 137–8
Watermen’s Company, 43–4, 46, 78, 82; Hall, 52, 120
Watt, James, 97
Westminster Bridge, 78, 90, 140
White Bear Inn, Southwark, 173
White Hind Alley, 58, 177, 195
Whitehall Palace, 47
Willow Street, 14
Winchester, Bishops of, 12–13, 15–16, 18, 36, 127–9; see also Beaufort, Cardinal Henry
Winchester geese see prostitutes
Winchester House, 27–8
Winchester Park, Southwark, 12–14; estate, 122–3
Winifrith, Joan Boniface see Lee, Anna
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 18
women: eighteenth-century lives, 65–6; see also prostitutes
Woodmongers and Coal-Sellers Company, 78
Wordsworth, William, 121
workhouses, 101, 112, 123–4
Worsthorne, (Sir) Peregrine, 211–12, 230
Wren, Sir Christopher, 3–5, 58–9, 183, 207–8, 210, 223
Wright, Sells, Dale and Surtees (company), 154
Wyatt, Samuel, 101 Wyatt, Thomas, the younger, 23
Zoar Street (Sanctuary Street), 56, 64
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