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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istons Drolleries (with a character portrait), the PaulPry Songster (with woodcut of Liston as Paul Pry), and the Harp of Ossian, &c. The central space in this neighbourhood, called Seven Dials, Avas so named on account of the planupon which the neighbourhood was laid out forbuilding, seven streets being made to converge at a centre, where there was a pillar adorned with; or, 204 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (St. Giless-in-the-Fields. at all events, intended to be adorned with, sevendial faces. Till this column was put up, it was called the Seven Streets, according to the NewView of London, which tells us that at the time of its publication (1708) only four of the seven streets had been actually built. The locality is ducer of the late lotteries, in imitation of those at Venice. Gay, in his Trivia, sings :— Here to seven streets Seven Dials count their day,And from each other catch the circhng ray. It appears that the dial-stone had but six faces, two of the seven streets opening into one angle.
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THE GATEWAY OF ST. GILES'S IN ITS ORIGINAL POSITION. built on what was formerly known as the Marsh-lands, and also as Cock and Pie Fields. The sewere surrounded by a ditch, which ran down to St.Martins and so into the Thames, but was blottedout when the Seven Dials was built. Evelyn thusmentions the work in his Diary, under date5th October, 1694:—I went to see the building near St. Giles, where seven streets made a star, from a Doric pillar placed in the middle of a cir-cular area, said to be built by Mr. Neale, intro- The column and dials were removed in June, 1774,to search for a treasure supposed to be concealed beneath the base; they were never replaced, but in1822 were purchased of a stonemason, and thecolumn was surmounted with a ducal coronet, and set up on Weybridge Green as a memorial to thelate Duchess of York, who died at Oatlands, in1820. The dial-stone formed a stepping-stone at the adjoining Ship inn. The angular direction of each street renders the spot rather embarrass

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