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There i to-dny a my:-teriou~> do\\ n htll tunn<'~
in the Strand which 1s the entranc~ to Adclpht
Ar<:hes. Few ordinary Londoncn; have explo17d
It, and still fewer country folk, but if you follow 1t,
tt "ill lead you down t-o what wn" once part of the
hargt' and halfJ)f'nny steamboat wharf, and to the
pot where oncl' Rt<>od the "Fox under the liJll ..
Tavern. Ht-re, on the balcony, on Sunday morn-
ing,.,, the tradelJmen u~ed t<> m<'ct, compan• the1r
hulldogi'l, and go<>sip. The tavern ~recinct-.
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t7tC ay, 1919
LANDSWOMAN
0 f
the water ..,upply of old Lon don was
· ed from the Thame~, the H olborn
\Io!>t
undoubtedly r~cn~ut that. Aomo w<'lls did exiRt ~~
or the Tybu 'urvival
of tho nam<'s of Clerkcnwcll
8
proved
tht? 8 , ... • ell ' Bridewell. Il olywell, Sad l<•r's
or
the hJ:
prtes
"<'ll~. ctc: 1 ~treet and Wormwood St~cet r<'minoo f<·<'t bron.d, tho na m" of
was an op~·n
-
which, H oundij·
di teh,
VIvidly
H u gges~ tho un-
~:wou ry nnturo
of i t.'i oon ton t.'i.
J t HI s t.range
t o rccoll<'ct that
ouly 140 yea rs
ago a. man wi th
a telescope uqed
tostat ion himself
in L o i c os t e r
.I<1elds, which is
now
Leicester
Sq uare, and offer
to passers -by. at
t he <'hargo of
one halfpenny,
a peep at the
heads of tho
Scotch
rebch1
which adorned
the sp ikes on
Temple Bar.
How d elight-
ful it would be
if Kensington,
Brompton, .Pad-
dington,
Dal-
ston Islington ,
where the bailiff's
d aughter lived ,
Edmonton, the
scene of .John
Gilpin 's E>xci tmg
ride, s till re-
mained the litt.lc
country Yill agf's
whirh they were
in the days when
a coach took
t hree hours to
run, or rather to
fl ounder, from
t he vlllage of
Paddi n~ton to London, an d when IA>rd J:tervey
tt!>Nl to r<'tiro t<> his country house .at Kensington
wh<'n hC' war., bored with tho excitements of town.
And whet fun it woulrl be to wah'h th!' tour-
nam<'nt on London Bridge, or perha ps from th~ t.
bal<'ony \\ hi<'h wa.<~ et'(>dcd a t tho corner of
Qu!'<'n ~tn·ct. so that the qucen'3 of England mig_ht
( nJoy_ the Rp~ctacle of the tou rn<'y~, which on ~< pf'm nl
Mea 10n3 were hl'ld in Cheap~idt>.
But nt?'t of all. l long at tht~ mo m<'n t to go nnd
a:athcr pr1mroses on P ri mro. e Hill .
roun< mtmN
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