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Metropolitan Railway/line, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
name
Northern Line, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1
Piccadilly Line, 9.1, 9.2
12.1
9.2, “Poems on the Underground”
posters, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1
smells, 9.1, 10.1
Stockwell Line see City and South London line
suicides
temperature
tickets, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
tiles/tiling, 2.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
unlucky stations
Victoria Line, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
Waterloo and City Line (“the Drain”)
in World War I
in World War II, 12.1, 13.1
stations:
Aldgate East
Aldwych, 10.1, 12.1
Arnos Grove
Baker Street, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
Balham
Bank, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1
Bishop’s Road
Blackfriars
Bounds Green
British Museum
Brompton Road, 9.1, 10.1
Canary Wharf
Charing Cross, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
Clapham Common, 9.1, 9.2
Covent Garden
Dover Street
Down Street, 10.1, 12.1
East Finchley
Elephant and Castle, 10.1, 11.1
Gloucester Road, 9.1, 10.1
Gower Street
Great Portland Street
Green Park
Holborn
Holloway Road
Hounslow West
Hyde Park Corner
Kennington
King William Street
King’s Cross, 10.1, 12.1
Lancaster Gate
Mark Lane
Moorgate, 9.1, 10.1
North End
North Greenwich
Notting Hill Gate
Oxford Circus
Portland Road
St. James’s Park
St. Paul’s, 9.1, 10.1
Sloane Square, 4.1, 10.1
South Kentish Town
The Strand, 9.1, 12.1
Stratford, 9.1, 9.2
Sudbury Town
Swiss Cottage
Temple
Tooting Broadway
Tottenham Court Road
Tower
Trafalgar Square
Vauxhall
Victoria, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Waterloo, 10.1, 11.1
Westminster, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Whitechapel, 9.1, 10.1
London Wall
Lord’s Cricket Ground, 6.1, 11.1
Lots Road Power Station, Chelsea, 4.1, 9.1, 10.1
Lower Robert Street
Lower Thames Street
Lubienska, Countess Teresa
Ludgate Circus, 5.1, 5.2
Ludgate Hill, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 9.1
Lyttle, William
Macaulay, Rose: Told by an Idiot, 10.1
Maida Hill tunnel
Maiden Lane
Mall, the, 11.1, 11.2
mammoth bones
Manhattan, New York
Mansion House
Marble Arch
Marsham Street
Martello towers
martyrdom, places of
Marylebone
Marylebone Lane
Marylebone Road
Marylebone Spa
Mayfair
sewer
Mayhew, Henry: London Labour and the London Poor, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 9.1
Mere, William and Adam
Merton
Metropolitan Board of Works
Metropolitan District Electric Traction Company
Metropolitan Railway Company
see also under London Underground
Metropolitan Water Board
MI5 building, Millbank
MI6 building, Vauxhall
“Mickey’s Shelter,” Stepney
Middleton, Hugh
Millbank
sewer
Miller, Thomas: Picturesque Sketches of London, 1.1
Minories, the
Minotaur, the, 1.1, 8.1
Mirror, 5.1
Mithras
head of
temple of (Mithraeum), 2.1, 4.1
Moorcock, Michael: Mother London, 13.1
Moor Ditch
Moore, Henry, 12.1, 12.2
Shelter Scene: Bunks and Sleepers, 12.1
Morning Chronicle, 4.1
mosquitoes
Murdoch, Iris: A Word Child, 10.1
Muriel Street, Islington
Museum of London
Archaeology Service
Mysterious Planet, The (TV serial), 10.1
mystery plays
National Gallery
National Grid, 7.1, 7.2
Neckinger, the
Neckinger Wharf
Nelson, Lord Horatio
New Bridge Street
Newby, Eric: A Traveller’s Life, 4.1, 6.1
Newcastle Close
New Fresh Wharf
New Kent Road
New Oxford Street
New River
New Statesman, 11.1
Noel Road, Islington
Norwood, 4.1, 4.2
catacombs, 2.1, 2.2
Notting Hill, 3.1, 9.1
Observer, 6.1
Oldbourne Bridge
Old Seacoal Lane
Olympia
On Strange and Distant Lands (sculpture), 8.1
Orczy, Baroness: The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway, 10.1
Ormsby, Hilda: London on the Thames, 4.1
Oxford Street, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 7.1
Paddington, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2
Pakenham Street
Palaeolithic era, 2.1, 2.2
Pall Mall
Panton Street
Paolozzi, Eduardo: mosaics
Paris: catacombs, 2.1, 2.2
Park Lane
pumping station
Parliament Square, 11.1, 11.2
Paxton, Joseph
Pearson, Charles, 9.1, 9.2
Peck, the
Penny Illustrated Paper, The, 10.1
Pepys, Samuel
Pepys Street
Phoenix Place
Piccadilly
sewers, 6.1, 6.2
Piccadilly Circus, 1.1, 7.1
Pimlico, 4.1, 6.1, 11.1
Pinks, William: History of Clerkenwell, 5.1, 5.2
pipes
gas, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2
water, 7.1, 7.2, see also conduits
plague, the, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2
plague pits
Pope, Alexander: Dunciad, 5.1
Poplar: commissioner of sewers
Portland, William John Cavendish‑Bentinck‑Scott, 5th Duke of, 8.1, 8.2
Poultry, 2.1, 4.1
Prioress Street, Bermondsey
prisons, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2
Clerkenwell
Fleet, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
pumping stations
Abbey Mills, Stratford, 6.1, 6.2
Crossness, 6.1, 6.2
Park Lane
Shepherd’s Bush
Punch, 9.1
Quatermass and the Pit (film), 10.1
Railway Gazette, 12.1
Railway Times, 9.1
Ranelagh sewer
rats, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
Ravenscourt Park: sewer
Ray Street
Red Lion Street
Regent’s Park
Restless Dream (sculpture), 8.1
“Richard the Raker”
Richmond Terrace, Westminster
rivers
see specific rivers
Roman London, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1
administration
amphitheatres, 2.1, 2.2
aqueducts, 3.1, 4.1
baptistery
basilica, 2.1,
2.2
bath‑houses, 2.1, 2.2
Caesar’s camp
catacombs, 1.1, 2.1
coins, 5.1, 11.1
corpses and skulls, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1
pavements/roads, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 5.1
pottery
ship, 2.1, 2.2
shrines/temples, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1
statues, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1
tiling, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1
walls, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Rose Playhouse, Southwark
Rosebery Avenue
Rosoman Street
Ross, Christopher: Tunnel Visions, 10.1
Rotherhithe, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Rush Common, Brixton
Ruskin, John
Sadler’s Wells
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Saffron Hill, 5.1, 5.2
St. Bride’s Church, Fleet Street
St. Chad’s Place, King’s Cross, 3.1, 5.1
St. Faith’s
St. James’s Park
St. John the Baptist upon Walbrook
St. John’s Wood, 3.1, 7.1
St. Katherine’s: commissioner of sewers
St. Margaret Lothbury
St. Martin‑in‑the‑Fields
St. Martin‑le‑Grand
St. Mary‑le‑Bow
St. Mildred, Poultry
St. Pancras Church, Old, 2.1, 5.1
St. Pancras Station
St. Paul’s, Old, 2.1, 5.1
St. Paul’s Churchyard, 2.1, 11.1
St. Saviour’s Dock
St. Stephen upon Walbrook
Sandford, Gilbert de
Screen of the Gods
Second Avenue tunnel
sewer‑hunters/“toshers” 84
sewers
commissioners of
construction, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
and disease
fat deposits
flooding
gases and explosions, 6.1, 6.2
maps
rats, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
and rivers and springs, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1
Roman
smells, 6.1, 6.2
uses for sewage, 6.1, 6.2
sewer-workers/“flushers”, 6.1, 6.2
contemporary
Shadwell
Sharland, Charles: London Underground poster
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer: Thames Tunnel v
Shepherd’s Bush Common
Shepherd’s Bush Pumping Station
Shoreditch, 4.1, 7.1, 11.1
Shorts Gardens
Sims, George: The Mysteries of Modern London, 10.1
Smithfield, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
South Kensington
South Molton Lane
South Street tunnel
Southwark, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Southwark Cathedral, 2.1, 3.1
Southwark High Street
Spa Fields
spas, 3.1, 3.2
Spitalfields
springs, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1
see also spas; wells
Sprot, William
Staffordshire Blue bricks
Stamford Brook
Stepney
“Mickey’s Shelter”
sewer
Stockwell, 3.1, 9.1, 12.1
Stoke Newington: Abney Park Cemetery, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1
Stoke Newington Common
Stow, John, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
Strand, the
sewer
Stratford: Abbey Mills Pumping Station, 6.1, 6.2
Streatham Well
street cries
Stukeley, William
Styx, River
suicides
burial of
on London Underground
Swift, Jonathan: “A Description of a City Shower”
Swiss Cottage, 4.1, 9.1
Swiss Cottager, 12.1, 12.2
Tabernacle Street, Finsbury: public baths
tanneries
Tate Gallery
telephone system/telecommunications, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 11.2
temperatures, underground
Teredo naturalis (ship‑worm), 8.1
Thames, River
items found in, 2.1, 2.2
rivers running into, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
sewage, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
tunnels beneath, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
see also Thames Tunnel
Thames Embankments, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1
Thames Tideway Tunnel
Thames Tunnel v, 8.1, 124, 8.2, 9.1
Thames Water
theatres
Sadler’s Wells, 3.1, 3.2
Things to Come (film), 12.1
Thoreau, Henry
“Tilbury” shelter
tiles/tiling, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1
Roman, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1
see also London Underground
Times, The, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Tokenhouse Yard
Tolpuddle Street, Islington
Took’s Court
Tooley Street
Tooting
“toshers”
Tottenham Court Road, 7.1, 12.1
Tower Bridge, 8.1, 8.2
Tower Hamlets: commissioner of sewers
Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Tower Hill, 2.1, 8.1
sewer
Jewel House
White Tower
Tower subway
Trafalgar Square, 11.1, 11.2
Treasury, the, 2.1, 11.1
trenches, underground
Trial Trip on the Underground Railway, The (engraving), 9.1
Turnagain Lane
Turnmill Street, 5.1, 5.2
“Twopenny Tube” 140
Tyburn (village)
Tyburn, the, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2
Tyburn sewer
Underground (film), 10.1
“underground” movements
Upper Street, Islington
Upper Wimpole Street
vaults, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 10.1, 10.2
bank, 11.1, 11.2
in sewers, 6.1, 6.2
Vauxhall, 4.1, 11.1
Vauxhall Bridge
Verne, Jules: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 13.1
Victoria
Victoria, Queen, 6.1, 8.1
Victoria Embankment, 6.1, 6.2
Victorians, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 7.1, 13.1
Vincent Square
Vine Hill
Walbrook, the, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1
Walbrook Street
Walton, Izaak: The Compleat Angler, 4.1
Wandle, the, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Wandsworth
Wapping
Ward, Ned: The London Spy, 5.1
Warner Street, 5.1, 5.2
water companies
Water Lane, Brixton
Water Ring Main, 7.1, 7.2
Watson, J. B.: The Wandle, 4.1
Weil’s disease
Welbeck Abbey
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of
wells, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2
Wells, H. G.
The Time Machine, 13.1, 13.2
Tono‑Bungay, 10.1
The War of the Worlds, 13.1
When the Sleeper Wakes, 13.1
Well Walk, Hampstead
Westbourne, the, 4.1, 4.2
Westbourne Gardens
Westbourne Grove
Westminster, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 11.1
sewer
Westminster Bridge
Westminster Hospital, old
Whitechapel, 4.1, 9.1, 10.1
sewer
White City
White Conduit Street, Islington
Whitehall, 2.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Cabinet War Rooms, 11.1, 11.2
Wick Lane, Bow
Wilde, Oscar
Wine Office Court
Woman’s World, 9.1
Working Man, The (magazine), 9.1
World War I
World War II, 2.1, 2.2, 12.1
Wormwood Scrubs
Wren, Sir Christopher, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1
York: Roman sewers
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