Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s charged forfoot-passengers over the bridge, and twopence forcabs, &c. An agitation has been long going oa 294 OLD AND NEW LONDON. rih; Thames. with the view of bringing about the aboHtion ofthe tolls, and at a meeting held in 1873 ^o^ thepurpose of considering the matter it was statedthat during the previous six years 5,000,000 per-sons annually passed over this bridge, producingan income of above ;^21,000 per annum, andthat since the opening of the bridge the sum of^-(^851,760 had been received by the Company.In order to form an api)roach from the Strand to we kAow nothing, nor when nor by whom it wasbuilt. Aggas in his map represents a house ^ ofsome extent as standing here, and Hollar gives anelevation of it. But this shared the fate of otherChurch property at the Reformation, being seizedby Henry VHL, and given by him to the luckycourtier from Dorsetshire, John Russell, then Con-troller of the Royal Household—the ancestor, itneed hardlv be said here, and the founder of the
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HUNCERFORD SUSPENSION BRIDGE. Waterloo Bridge it was found necessary to removevery many interesting remains of ancient archi-tecture—not only those belonging to the SavoyPalace on the west, but also several walls belong-ing to the palace of the Duke of Somerset, withbuttresses and pointed windows with Gothic tracery.All memory of these old buildings has long sinceperished. But it is time that we started on our voyagewestward, noting on our way a few buildings whichwe did not describe minutely as we passed alongthe Strand. Next to the Savoy westward, writes the authorof London in the Olden Time, was the palaceof the )5ishop of Carlisle, with grounds whichextended to the lane running down to the river,called Ivy Bridj^e. Of the history of this house fortunes of the ducal house of Bedford. CarlisleHouse was afterwards known as Worcester House.At the bottom of Ivy Bridge Lane was for manyyears the landing-stage for the halfpenny steam-boats plying between this place and London Bridge,on

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