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Authors: Peter Ackroyd

London Under (20 page)

Chiswick

cholera epidemics,
4.1
,
5.1

Christ Church, Spitalfields

Christians, early/Christianity,
1.1
,
2.1
,
5.1

Citadel, Horse Guards Parade

City and South London Railway,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
10.1

City of London,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
11.1
,
11.2

churches

see also
Farringdon

City Press
,
9.1

City Road

Civil War, English

Clapham

Claremont Square

Clement’s Inn

Clerkenwell,
3.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1

sewer

Clerkenwell Green,
1.1
,
3.1

Clerkenwell Prison

Cloak Lane

“coal gas” 83

COBRA

Cockfosters

coins,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
6.1
,
11.1

Roman,
5.1
,
11.1

Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: “Kubla Khan” 55

College Street (Elbow Lane)

Compton Street, Clerkenwell: sewer

Conduit Street

conduits,
4.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Cornhill conduit,
7.1
,
7.2

corpses,
2.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

see also
catacombs; cemeteries

Counter’s Creek

County Hall,
2.1
,
2.2

Covent Garden

Cowcross Street

Craig’s Court, Whitehall

Creffield road, Acton

Criminals/criminality,
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1
,
11.1

Cromwell Road

Crossness Pumping Station,
6.1
,
6.2

Croydon

crypts,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
3.1
,
6.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1

Curtain Road, Shoreditch

“Dagenham Idol” 28

Daily Courant
,
5.1

Daily Telegraph
,
6.1

Darwin, Charles

Death Line
(film),
10.1

de la Mare, Walter:
Bad Company
,
10.1

Deptford

Devonshire Place

de Witt, Helen:
The Last Samurai
,
10.1

Dickens, Charles,
7.1
,
9.1

“The City of the Absent”

“Night Walks”

Oliver Twist
,
4.1

The Pickwick Papers
,
5.1

diseases,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.1
,
6.2

“tunnel disease”

see also
plague

Disraeli, Benjamin

Dixie, B.:
The Entrance to the Thames Tunnel,
8.1

Docklands Light Railway

Dogs, Isle of,
2.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Doré, Gustave:
London: A Pilgrimage,
9.1

Dowgate Hill

Down Street,
4.1
,
10.1

Drabble, Margaret:
The Middle Ground
,
13.1

Drury Lane

Duke of York Steps

Dulwich

Dulwich Common

Dulwich Park

“Dynamiters”

Earls Court

Earl’s Sluice, the

East London Railway,
8.1
,
9.1

Eaton Square

Eddowes, Catherine

Edgware Road,
6.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

Effra, the

Effra Road, Brixton

electric cables,
7.1
,
7.2

electric railways,
9.1
,
9.2

Elephant and Castle,
4.1
,
11.1

Elgin Marbles, the

Elstree

Erith marshes,
2.1
,
6.1

Euston Road

Euston Square,
9.1
,
9.2

Evelyn, John,
6.1
,
7.1

Exmouth Market

Eyre Street Hill

Falcon, the

Farquhar, George:
Sir Harry Wildair
,
5.1

Farringdon,
9.1
,
9.2

Farringdon Lane,
3.1
,
5.1

Farringdon Road

Farringdon Street,
5.1
,
5.2
,
9.1
,
9.2

Fenchurch Street,
2.1
,
2.2

Fenians,
7.1
,
9.1

Fetter Lane burial ground

fibre optic cables,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

films

Death Line
,
10.1

Quatermass and the Pit
,
10.1

Things to Come
,
12.1

Underground
,
10.1

Finsbury,
3.1
,
6.1

Fleet, the,
2.1
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

Fleet Bridge

Fleet Ditch

Fleet Prison,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Fleet Road

Fleet sewer,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

Fleet Street,
2.1
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
11.1

flood‑control centre

Floral Street

Ford, Ford Madox:
The Soul of London
,
10.1

Foster, Norman: Canary Wharf station

France, Alfred: Underground poster

Freud, Sigmund

Fulham: sewer

Fulham Cemetery

Furnival Street,
11.1
,
11.2

Galsworthy, John:
The Man of Property
,
10.1

Gants Hill

Garrick Street

gas pipes,
1.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

Geffrye Museum, Shoreditch

Gentleman, David: murals,
9.1
,
9.2

Gentleman’s Magazine
,
5.1

geology, London’s,
1.1
,
1.2

George IV

George V

Gladstone, William E. 132

gold,
9.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

Golden Square

Goodge Street

government departments,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
12.1

Grahame, Kenneth:
The Wind in the Willows
,
1.1

Great Conduit

Great Dover Street, Southwark

Great Eastern Railway Company

Great Fire (1666),
2.1
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
11.1

Great Northern and City Railway

Great Northern Railway Company

Great Smith Street

“great stink,” the (1858)

Great Western Railway Company

Green Park,
4.1
,
11.1

Greenwich: commissioner of sewers

Greenwich Foot Tunnel

Greenwich Park

Gropius, Walter

Grosvenor Place

groundwater

Guildhall

Guildhall Museum

Hackney,
3.1
,
8.1

Hackney Brook

Hadrian, Emperor: head

Hamilton, Lady Emma

Hammersmith,
4.1
,
9.1

sewers

Hammersmith Cemetery

Hampstead,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

sewer

Hampstead Heath,
5.1
,
9.1

Harrison, Michael:
London Beneath the Pavement
,
11.1

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Heaney, Seamus: “The Underground”

Heath Street, Hampstead: sewer

Henry III

Herbal Hill

heretics, burning of

Herne Hill

Highgate Cemetery,
2.1
,
2.2

High Holborn,
7.1
,
11.1
,
11.2

Hobart Place

Hobsbawm, Eric

Holborn,
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1

see also
High Holborn

Holborn Bridge,
5.1
,
5.2

Holborn Telephone Exchange

Holborn Viaduct,
5.1
,
5.2

Hollingshead, John:
Underground London
,
1.1

Hollis, L. C. 181

Holywell Street, Islington

Holywell Street, Shoreditch

Hopton Street, Southwark

Horseferry Road

Horse Guards Parade

Houses of Parliament

Hyde Park

St. Agnes’s Well

The Serpentine,
4.1
,
4.2

Hyde Park Corner

hydraulic pipes

Idler, The
(magazine),
10.1

Imperial War Museum

Institution of Civil Engineers,
9.1
,
9.2

Iron Age structures

Islington,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
7.1
,
7.2

see also
Clerkenwell

Islington canal/tunnel,
6.1
,
6.2

Jack the Ripper,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2

Jacob Street

James, Henry:
A London Life
,
10.1

Jones, George:
The Banquet in the Thames Tunnel
,
8.1

Jones, Inigo

Jonson, Ben: “On the Famous Voyage” 65

Kemble, Fanny

Kenilworth Road, Pimlico: sewer

Kennington

Kennington Road sewer

Kensal Green Cemetery,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1

Kensington: sewer

Kilburn

King’s Cross,
3.1
,
5.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

King’s Cross Bridge

Kingsley, Charles

King Street, Westminster,
2.1
,
6.1

Kingsway,
2.1
,
3.1
,
11.1

King William Street

Knight, Charles:
London,
2.1
,
13.1

Knightrider Street

Knightsbridge,
4.1
,
12.1

Knossos, Crete,
1.1
,
6.1

Lamb public house, Lamb’s Conduit Street

Lambe, Sir William

Lambert, G. W.:
The Geography of London’s Ghosts
,
4.1

Lambeth

Lamb’s Conduit Street, Holborn,
3.1
,
7.1

lavatories, public,
1.1
,
5.1

Lawrence, G. F.

Lea, River

Leadenhall Market

“legging” 97

Leicester Square,
7.1
,
11.1

Lemuria

Leytonstone

Limehouse

Limehouse Link

Lincoln’s Inn Fields

literature and underground

London Basin

London Connection, the

London Electricity Board

London Gaslight Company

London Silver Vaults

London Spa public house, Rosoman Street

London Underground,
1.1
,
7.1
,
9.1
ff.,
9.2
,
10.1

“Alight Here” (poetry project)

art,
9.1
,
9.2
, see also posters

Baker Street and Waterloo (“Bakerloo”) Line,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1

Central Line,
1.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
12.1

Circle Line,
10.1
,
10.2
,
12.1

City and South London line/Stockwell line,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
10.1

“dead”/disused stations and tunnels,
9.1
,
10.1
,
12.1

deaths,
9.1
,
9.2

depth

District Line,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

electric cables

electric railways,
9.1
,
9.2

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