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Haunted London
"Haunted London" from George Walter Thornbury. English author (1828-1876).
Haunted London
This book deals less with the London of the ghost-stories, the scratching impostor in Cock Lane, or the apparition of Parson Ford at the Hummums, than with the London consecrated by manifold traditions-a city every street and alley of which teems with interesting associations, every paving-stone of which marks, as it were, the abiding-place of some ancient legend or biographical story; in short, this London of the present haunted by the memories of the past. The slow changes of time, the swifter destructions of improvement, and the inevitable necessities of modern civilisation, are rapidly remodelling London. It took centuries to turn the bright, swift little rivulet of the Fleet into a foetid sewer, years to transform the palace at Bridewell into a prison; but events now move faster: the alliance of money with enterprise, and the absence of any organised resistance to needful though sometimes reckless improvements, all combine to hurry forward modern changes.
The Monarchs of the Main Volume II
"The Monarchs of the Main Volume II" from George Walter Thornbury. English author (1828-1876).
Old and New London
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Old and New London
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