Poplar
Typhus was a common disease amongst the upper classes, even amongst the royal family. Queen Victoria’s apartments at Buckingham Palace were ventilated through the common sewer; and in many other large houses swarms of rats came up from the sewers every night in their nocturnal search for food. Reports of children in well-to-do households being attacked in their nursery cots at night were not uncommon.
Christopher Hibbert - London: Biography of a City, 1969
Shoreditch
Up by 5 a-clock and, blessed be God, find all well, and by water to Paul’s Wharfe. Walked thence and saw all the town burn-ed, and a miserable sight of Paul’s Church, with all the roofs fallen and the body of the quire fallen into St Fayths - Paul’s School also - Ludgate - Fleet Street - my father’s house, and the church, and a good part of the temple the like.
Samuel
Pepys - Diary, 1666
East London
If you came from Wapping, you owed it to yourself and your disinherited forefathers, to go out and win back a bit of what was taken away by the enclosures acts, the East India Company, the river police or anyone else who built walls between you and the jampots of their graft.
Liz
Thomson - Just A Cotchell, 1987
Rotherhithe
Yet he who truly knows London will confess that he knows it not, and is most sure that he never will know it. It is mapped and charted; but only for the logical understanding, never for the imagination. London in its essence, is an object of faith, not of science.
Arthur Machen
- The Joy of London, 1914
On the south side of Tooley-Street a little westward from Burnaby-Street is a street called the Maes, or Maze, eastward from the Borough (another name for labyrinth). I believe we received these mazes from our Danish ancestors.
John Aubrey -
Remaines, 1686
Kings Cross
Below the flood plain terrace is the alluvium deposited by the Thames in slack water at high tides from neolithic to early historic times. Finally, central London has up to 20 feet of 'made ground' accumulated in historic time.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica, 1966
