Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (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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e of the light. Not faroff, along the New Road, lived John Martin, R.A., See Vol. IV.-p. 435. = 58 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Marylebone, North. the painter of the * Deluge, the Destruction ofBabylon, and other sacred subjects, so familiar tomost persons by the aid of the engravers art. Martins pictures, says Dr. Waagen, unite ina high degree the three qualities which the Englishrequire above all in works of art—effect; a fancifulinvention, inclining to melancholy; and topogra-phical historic truth. And at the hospitable tableof a great lover of art, in Chapel Street, would an evening with him, pleasant, informing, and variedby conversation on subjects that chance broughtup, or association introduced stealthily. In the Post Boy of January i, 1711-12, mentionis made of the Two White Balls, as the sign ofa school at Marylebone, in which Latin, French,Mathematics, &c., were taught. The notice addsthat in the same house there lives a clergyman,who teaches to write well in three davs ! The
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The Queens Head and Artichoke. assemble a goodly band of actual and future asso-ciates and members of the Royal Academy, theimmediate predecessors of Landseer. At one time this street contained a chapel ofease, which gave its name to the street, and of whichthe late Rev. Basil Woodd was the minister. Thestreet connects the Edgware Road and Paddingtonwith the New Road. In it are the MetropolitanRailway Companys Store Departments, and alsothe Locomotive Carriage and Permanent WayDepartments, as we have already mentioned. Leigh Hunt, the gossiping chronicler of the*01d Court Suburb, was for some time a residentin this neighbourhood. When Leigh Hunt re-sided in the New Road, says Cyrus Redding, inhis * fifty Years Recollections, I spent many locality at one time had about it an air of quietudeand seclusion ; but of late years a number of smallstreets have sprung up in the neighbourhood ofthe Edgware Road and Lisson Grove, and alto-gether it has now become, for the most part, poorand squal

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