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
Subjects:
Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
y called the Kings Garden, Henry VIII. issaid to have built a conduit, or bath, for the use ofthe Princess Elizabeth, when a child. It was alow building, with walls of great thickness, and theroof covered with bricks. The interior was ingood preservation when Faulkner wrote his His-tory of Kensington, and afforded a favourablespecimen of the brickwork of the period. -^ It is clear, from an entry in the parish ^gbooks, though unnoticed by Faulkner, thatQueen Elizabeth, at least on one occasionsubsequent to her childhood, stayed withinthe parish, for the parish officers are rebukedand punished for not ringing when HerINIajesty left Kensington. Probably this the last century. In 1801 an engraving waspublished, showing the presentation of colours tothe regiment; the original painting, together withthe colours themselves—which were worked bythe Duchess of Gloucester and her daughter, thePrincess Sophia Matilda—are now in the VestryHall. In 1876 these colours were placed in front ■W^i
Text Appearing After Image:
KENSINGTON PALACE, FROM THE GARDENS. entry refers to some visit which she paid to HollandHouse, where no doubt she was entertained as aguest by the then owner, the old Earl of Holland,or by Sir Walter Cope, who built the originalmansion. On Palace Green are the barracks forfoot-soldiers, who still regularly mount guard at thePalace. The Green, called in ancient documentsthe Moor, was the military parade when theCourt resided here, and the royal standard washoisted on it dail3% Among the historical associations of this placemust not be overlooked the Old KensingtonVolunteers, which was formed towards the close of of the Princess Louise, when she opened the NewNational Schools here, and the vicar of Kensing-ton drew the attention of her Royal Highness tothis work of her ancestors. Dr. Callcott, whomwe have already mentioned as living near theGravel Pits, was band-master in the above corps,which was disbanded at the Peace of Amiens, andalso in the Kensington Corps of Volunteer In-fantry,

Note About Images