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The House by the Thames

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by Gillian Tindall


  Holditch, Jessica, 157–8

  Holland, Mistress, 25

  Holland’s Leaguer (gaming place), 25, 87, 95

  Hollar, Wenceslaus, 27–9

  Hollingshed, John, 167–70

  Hooper, June, 212

  Hop Exchange, 95, 165, 191, 220

  Hope Theatre, 31, 34

  Hopkinson, Henry, 191

  Horne family, 89, 97, 120, 147

  Horne, Anthony, 118–19, 121

  Horne, Benjamin, 76

  Horne, Thomas, 83, 104, 121, 167

  Horne, William, 139–40, 179

  House, the see Cardinal’s Wharf (house; 49 Bankside)

  Howatt, Revd J. Reid, 186

  Hulbert, Jack, 201

  Hudson, Thomas, 53

  Humphreys, Sarah, 53

  Hungerford Railway Bridge, 162, 229

  Hydraulic Power Company, 183

  Illustrated London News, The, 210

  Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company, 141

  Industrial Revolution, 94

  Inn and Goat stairs, 43

  iron manufacture, 59, 95

  Isaacs family, 197

  Isaacs, Ernest David, 197

  Isaacs, Moss (iron-merchant), 155–6, 176, 179, 192, 197–8

  Isaacs, Moss II, 192, 196

  Isaacs, Samuel, 192, 196

  Isaacs, Samuel & Sons (iron merchants), 193

  James I, King (James VI of Scotland), 16, 45

  Johnson, Samuel, 48, 85, 96–7

  Johnstone’s London Commercial Guide and Street Directory, 120

  Jones family, 89

  Jones & Sells (coal-merchants), 120, 140, 154

  Jones, Inigo, 60

  Jones, Mr (iron-founder), 59

  Jonson, Ben, 31

  Jubilee Walkway, 223, 226

  Keen and Smither’s Coal Wharf, 102

  Killingworth, William, 83

  Kimpton, Edward and Ellen, 192–3

  King’s Bench prison, Southwark, 11, 93

  Lambeth: water supply, 151

  Lambeth Marsh, 229

  latrines, 87–8

  Lee, Anna (Joan Boniface Winifrith; Mrs Robert E. Stevenson), 199–204, 208

  Lettsom, Dr John Coakley, 92, 96, 109

  lightermen and lighterage, 76–8, 139, 219

  Lingard and Sadler’s Mustard Manufactory, 102

  London: south bank, 8–10; street lighting introduced, 39, 103; population growth, 53, 55, 90–1, 110; rebuilding and development, 54, 58, 60–2; class structure, 65–7; fogs and pollution, 73–5, 92, 155; conditions in mid-late eighteenth century, 90–4; industrial development, 94; expansion, 110–11; Underground, 115; panoramas, 134–5; sewage and drainage system, 152; railways, 161–2; Abercrombie plan for, 208–9, 217; dock closures and port decline, 218–19; see also Great Fire; Great Plague; Southwark

  London Bridge: links City of London with Southwark, 1, 9–10, 232; negotiated by watermen, 43; in Great Fire, 52; and new bridges, 78; rebuilding, 95, 126, 130, 136; replaced, 223; in nursery rhyme, 232

  London Bridge railway station, 162, 164

  London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, 161

  London, Chatham & Dover Railway, 162–3

  London County Council (LCC), 9, 217, 219; see also Greater London Council

  London Dock, Wapping, 218

  London Electricity Company, 191

  London Hydraulic Power Company, 159, 183, 221

  London School Board, 159

  Maid (or Maiden) Lane, Southwark, 36–7, 49, 55

  Mallison family, 192

  Mann, Revd William, 143, 147–8, 171, 179

  Mansell (or Mansfield), Thomas, 30

  maps and town views, 26–8, 49–50, 134

  Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of, 58

  Marlowe, Christopher, 31

  Marshalsea prison, Southwark, 11, 134

  Mary I (Tudor), Queen, 24

  Mary, Queen of Scots, 14

  Mason stairs, 15–16, 43, 100, 177

  Massinger, Philip, 37–8

  Matthews, Jessie, 201

  Mayhew, Henry, 137–8, 167–8, 185

  Meade, Dr Richard, 108

  Mearns, Andrew: The Bitter Cry of Outcast London, 170

  Meath, 12th Earl of see Brabazon, Reginald

  Metropolitan Board of Works, 9, 127, 152

  Metropolitan Police: established, 170

  Metropolitan Public Garden, Playground and Boulevard Association, 114

  Metropolitan Railway, 162

  Millennium Bridge, 2, 178, 228

  Mills, Sir John, 201

  Millwall Dock, 219

  Montagu-Pollock, Fidelity, 205

  Montagu-Pollock, Prudence (née Williams), 204–5

  Montagu-Pollock, Sir William, 204–5

  Montague, C.J.: Sixty Years in Waifdom, 187

  Morgan, William see Ogilby, John, and William Morgan

  Morley family, 193

  Morning Chronicle, 167

  Morning Post, 167

  Morris, William, 99

  Moss Alley, 58, 178, 195

  Munthe family, 206

  Munthe, Axel, 206

  Munthe, Guy, 224–6, 231

  Munthe, Hilda (née Pennington-Mellor), 206

  Munthe, Ludvig Malcolm, 206–8, 210–12, 214–15

  Newington Butts, 116

  Norfolk, John Howard, 1st Duke of, 21

  North Southwark Community Development Group, 227

  Oakeshott, Michael, 212

  Oberon, Merle, 201

  Ogilby, John, and William Morgan, 50

  Old Swan stairs, 43

  Oldner family, 64, 83

  Oldner, Sir Richard, 54

  Oldner, Sir William, 65, 147

  Overend Gurney bank, 159

  Oxford Canal, 105

  Oxo Tower, 15

  Paddington Basin, 106

  panoramas, 134–5

  Paris Garden, Southwark, 12–15, 17, 25, 36–7, 55

  Paris Garden stairs, 14

  Paris, Robert de, 13

  Park Street, Southwark, 37

  Paving Act (1786), 103

  Peabody, George, 166

  Peak Frean (biscuit manufacturer), 184

  Peasants’ Revolt (1381), 23

  Penny Magazine, The, 136

  People’s Refreshment House Association Ltd, 191

  Pepys, Samuel, 6, 31, 42, 50–3, 73

  Perkins, John, 97–8, 104, 127

  Perronet, Edward, 107

  Phoenix Gas Company, 141, 183

  Pigot’s New Commercial Directory, 109–10, 143

  Place, Francis, 169

  plague: declines in eighteenth century, 92; see also Great Plague

  Platter, Thomas, 32

  Pond Yard, 17, 58

  Pool of London, 8, 136, 217–18

  Poole, Mr & Mrs (servants), 202

  Poor Law Act (1834), 123

  Pott, Robert (vinegar manufacturer), 102, 127, 129

  Powell, John, 30

  Power Station, Bankside see Bankside; Tate Modern

  Price, Samuel, 82

  Price’s oil stores, Bankside, 155

  Prickett, Thomas, 104

  printing, 95

  Pritchett, Sir Victor S., 192–3, 231; London Perceived, 217–18

  prostitutes (‘Winchester geese’), 20–3, 25

  Puritanism, 25

  Pye Garden, the (Pike Garden), 15–16, 82, 195

  Quaker Meeting House, Bankside, 56

  Queen’s Wharf, Bankside, 177

  Ragged School Union, 187

  railways, 126, 132, 135, 138, 155, 161–2

  Raven, John, 19, 30

  Reformation, 24

  Regent’s Canal, 106

  Rennie family (bridge builders), 13, 95

  Rennie, John, 101–2, 133, 223

  Restoration, 49, 53

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 96

  Rhinebeck panorama, 135

  Richard III, King, 12

  road traffic, 77

  Rocque, John, 83, 94
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  Rolfe family, 190–1

  Rolfe, Henry, 183–4

  Romans: in London, 9–10

  Rose Theatre, 31, 33–5, 45, 227

  Rotunda, Southwark (later Surrey Institute), 101

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 108

  Royal Barge House, Southwark, 15, 43

  Rush, Samuel, 104

  Rymen, Devonish, 35

  Sainsbury’s (company), 184, 221

  St George’s church, Southwark, 11

  St George’s Fields, Southwark, 91, 99–100

  St John, Knights of, 12, 14

  St Katharine’s Dock, 218

  St Margaret’s church, Southwark, 11

  St Mary Magdalene church, Southwark, 11

  St Mary Overie’s Dock, 27–8, 71, 215, 220, 226

  St Mary Overy’s church, Southwark (later St Saviour’s), 10–11, 27

  St Mary Overy’s priory, Southwark, 11

  St Olave’s parish church, Bermondsey, 11

  St Paul’s Bridge (proposed), 3–4; see also Millennium Bridge

  St Paul’s cathedral (old), 48, 52

  St Paul’s cathedral (Wren’s), 58–9

  St Peter’s church, Bankside, 129, 222

  St Peter’s school, Emerson Street, Southwark, 184

  St Saviour’s parish church: origins in St Mary Overy, 11–12, 27; rates, 17, 127–9; parish population, 43, 55–6; altered in Commonwealth, 47; burial ground, 51, 112–15; house building, 55; free schools (National and Parochial), 56–7, 154, 184, 220; Poor Rate and Land Rate records, 64; workhouse, 101, 112, 123–4; unheated, 117; poor relief, 118–19, 123–5; repair and rebuilding, 125–9, 135, 229; burial registers, 150; and railway development, 163

  St Thomas à Becket’s hospital, Bermondsey, 11

  St Thomas’s Hospital, Lambeth, 153, 163

  Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert, 209, 221, 228

  Sells family: Betjeman on, 79; as Bankside residents, 80–1, 89, 143; leaves Bankside, 142, 153, 156, 171; association with Charringtons, 159; family tree, 249

  Sells, Arthur, 154

  Sells, Sir David Perronet, 159

  Sells, Edward: in coal trade, 79, 84, 105; occupies houses on Bankside, 81–2, 86, 88, 146; in Waterman’s Company, 83; marriage and children, 84–5; death and will, 89, 106; market sale, 107; in lighterage, 129

  Sells, Edward II: follows father’s business, 84–5, 105–6; as waterman, 89–90, 105–6; public and parish activities, 104, 116, 118–20, 122–3, 125, 127–9, 131; marriage and children, 106, 109, 123–4, 143; retires to Camberwell, 110, 127; youth, 111; death, 130; and water closets, 144

  Sells, Edward (of Walthamstow), 127

  Sells, Edward Perronet (Edward II’s son): birth, 106–7, 109, 132; as waterman, 124; public and parish activities, 125–7, 130, 154; on rebuilding of London Bridge, 130; moves from Bankside to Bristol, 131, 133; children, 132, 150; death, 133, 156; Bankside houses, 146, 153; in family business, 150; in brother Vincent’s will, 151

  Sells, Edward Perronet II, 133, 151, 153–4, 159, 198

  Sells, Edward Perronet III, 159

  Sells, Elizabeth (Edward Perronet II’s wife), 157

  Sells, John, 107, 109, 124, 157–8

  Sells, Martha (Edward’s wife), 84

  Sells, Sophia Elizabeth (Edward Perronet II’s daughter), 107, 109, 151–2, 155, 158

  Sells, Sophia Gardiner (née Briggs; Edward Perronet II’s wife), 106–7, 109

  Sells, Vincent: birth, 107, 109; schooling, 124; subscribes to church restoration, 127; resides at and improves Bankside house, 143, 146–7, 198; death and will, 150–1; in family business, 150; leaves Bankside, 150

  Sells, William, 116

  Selznick, David, 204

  Serota, Sir Nicholas, 228

  servants, 66–7

  sewage, 82–3, 87–8, 144–6, 149, 152–3

  Shakespeare, Edmund, 36

  Shakespeare, William, 5, 30, 36, 223

  Shallett, Arthur, 64

  Shallett, Edmund, 64, 81, 83–4, 147

  Shallett’s meeting house, Bankside, 56

  Silkin, Lewis, 210

  Sims, George R., 170

  Skin Market, 149, 194, 216, 231

  Smith, Edmund, 83–4

  Smith’s balloon view of London, 135–6

  Snow, John, 151

  Snowden, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, 222

  Society of Owners of Coalcraft, 77

  South Bank Centre, 230

  South London Press (newspaper), 165

  South London Visiting Relief Association, 168

  South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company, 141

  Southwark: as borough, 9–11, 127; disputes with City of London, 11–12; inns and innkeeping, 17; graveyards, 20–1, 51, 111–15; character in early seventeenth century, 38–40; street paving and lighting, 39, 103; under Commonwealth, 48; layout, 49; fires, 52, 101–2, 103, 155–6; house-building and population, 55–6; coaches and coaching, 77, 132; urbanisation, 90, 99, 133; in Gordon Riots, 93; trades and industry, 94–6, 102, 136; mineral springs and spas, 99–100; children’s education in, 125; railways, 126, 132, 135, 138, 155, 161–3; cholera epidemics, 151; absorbed into London, 152; drainage system installed (1860s), 152–3; development in late 19th century, 164–6; Metropolitan Police in, 170; cinemas, 196; bombed in Second World War, 205; post-war planning and rebuilding, 208–11, 216–17; post-war industrial and commercial changes, 216, 219–20; population decline (1950s–60s), 217; empty warehouses, 219; present-day character, 232; see also Bankside; London; St Saviour’s church

  Southwark Bridge, 2, 95, 133, 135

  Southwark Environment Trust, 228

  Southwark Fair, St George’s Fields, 91, 99

  Southwark Street, 163, 165

  Southwark & Vauxhall Waterworks, 151, 159

  Sphere, The (magazine), 210

  steamships, 137–9

  Stevenson, Cecilie, 197, 199–200

  Stevenson, Robert E., 196–204, 230;Darkness in the Land, 199

  ‘stews’, 16, 21

  Stonor, Thomas, 88

  Stow, John, 17, 20, 31, 43, 56, 180;Survey of London, 22–4

  Strype, John, 58

  Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Bridge Road, 175

  Surrey County Gaol, Southwark, 11

  Surrey Institute see Rotunda

  Surtees, C.E., 154–5, 158–9

  Sutton, Joseph, 171

  Swan Theatre, Southwark, 25, 31

  tanning, 94, 96, 193

  Tate Modern (formerly Bankside power station), 2–3, 15, 228–30

  Taylor, John (‘the water poet’), 36, 43–7, 77, 117, 139

  Templars, 12

  Thames, river: and transport, 41–2; freezes over, 46, 117; in Great Plague, 51; horse ferries, 77–8; new bridges, 78, 90, 133; sewage pollution, 82–3, 87, 144–5, 149, 153; and canals, 105–6; shipping and docks, 136–9; fish and fishing, 145; water supply from, 145; railway bridges, 162; industry and trade relocated post-war, 217–19; see also watermen

  theatres: established north of river, 50; see also Globe Theatre; Rose Theatre; Swan Theatre

  Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 201

  Thrale, Henry, 48, 65, 93, 96–8, 147

  Thrale, Hester (Hester Lynch Piozzi), 66, 85, 96, 99

  Thrale, Ralph, 83, 95–6

  Tilbury, 218

  Tiller, Thomas, 88

  Tradescant family, 48–50

  Trinity Square, Southwark, 150

  Tuckfield family, 173–5, 198

  Tuckfield, Joseph, 172–3

  Tuckfield, William, 172

  Twentieth Century Society, 228

  Unicorn Alley, 195

  Union Street, Southwark, 112

  Upper Ground, Southwark, 14

  Vauxhall Bridge, 133

  Vikings, 10

  Visscher, Nicholas John, 26–7, 38

  Walbrook, 82

  Wanamaker, Sam, 33, 226–8

  Wandsworth Prison, 159

  Ware, George, 151

  Warren family, 184

 
Warren, Edith, 184

  water closets, 87, 144–6

  Waterloo Bridge, 2, 95, 133, 135, 229–30

  Waterman’s Arms (inn), 177–8, 183, 191

  watermen: occupation and activities, 42–5; in Great Plague, 51; merge with lightermen, 77–8; rights and status, 77; resist new Thames bridges, 78; regatta (1775), 88; and advent of steamships, 137–8

  Watermen’s Company, 43–4, 46, 78, 82; Hall, 52, 120

  Watt, James, 97

  Westminster Bridge, 78, 90, 140

  White Bear Inn, Southwark, 173

  White Hind Alley, 58, 177, 195

  Whitehall Palace, 47

  Willow Street, 14

  Winchester, Bishops of, 12–13, 15–16, 18, 36, 127–9; see also Beaufort, Cardinal Henry

  Winchester geese see prostitutes

  Winchester House, 27–8

  Winchester Park, Southwark, 12–14; estate, 122–3

  Winifrith, Joan Boniface see Lee, Anna

  Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 18

  women: eighteenth-century lives, 65–6; see also prostitutes

  Woodmongers and Coal-Sellers Company, 78

  Wordsworth, William, 121

  workhouses, 101, 112, 123–4

  Worsthorne, (Sir) Peregrine, 211–12, 230

  Wren, Sir Christopher, 3–5, 58–9, 183, 207–8, 210, 223

  Wright, Sells, Dale and Surtees (company), 154

  Wyatt, Samuel, 101 Wyatt, Thomas, the younger, 23

  Zoar Street (Sanctuary Street), 56, 64

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