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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butprobably the truer reason is to be found in the factthat that device was the crest of the Hungerfords. OLD And new london. (Charing CrosS. In the row of houses fronting the market, andforming the commencement of the Strand, at No. i8,where his father was a bookseller, Charles Mathewsfirst saw the light, in 1776. The shop, at that time,was the favourite resort of the leading Noncon-formist ministers of the time, including RowlandHill, Dr. Adam Clarke, &c. Hungerford Bridge, the approach to which wasthrough the market, was constructed in 1845 upon bridge, it was transferred to Clifton, near Bristol,where it now spans the waters of the Avon. Nearly opposite the railway station, and runningdiagonally towards Adelaide Street, is the LowtherArcade. It is nearly 250 feet in length, and hasshops on either side for the sale of fancy goods.As the admission is free, and the place is consideredone of the sights of London, it is continuallythronged with children and their attendants, buying
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OLD HUNGERFORD MARKET. (From a Vir.c pnllishcd in 1S05.) the suspension principle, and was the work of thelate Mr. Brunei. The centre span was, perhaps,the largest of any existing work of the kind, beingno less than 676 feet, whilst the total length of thebridge was 1,352 feet. The chains to which thesuspending-rods were fastened were double on eachside of the bridge; the two piers were of orna-mental brickwork, whilst the clear height of thebridge above high water in the centre was 32 feet,and at the sides 28 feet, thus giving a rise of fourfeet. The span of the centre division of the bridgewas the only part worthy of any particular notice.The bridge, which is said to have cost ;^i 00,000,opened up a communication between HungerfordMarket and the worst part of Lambeth. On itsremoval, to make room for the i)resent railway toys at the French, German, and Swiss shops. TheLowther Bazaar, which flourished for a time at theperiod of the great Exhibition in 1851, was on theother side of the

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