Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood / Being a Concise Description of the Chief Places of Interest in the Metropolis, and the Best Modes of Obtaining Access to Them: with Information Relating to Railways, Omnibuses, Steamers, &c.

by Anonymous

Woking Necropolis, [61]

Wood Street, [19]

Woolwich, [159]

Wren’s Churches, [58]

Zoological Gardens, [133]

WILLIAM COLLINS & CO., PRINTERS,
HERRIOT HILL WORKS, GLASGOW.

FOOTNOTES

[16] Most of the illustrations are bird’s-eye views, taken from house-tops and church-towers, in order to shew as many public buildings as possible. The reader will attribute to this cause any apparent distortion of perspective, as compared with views taken from level ground.

[18] This tremendous conflagration was one of the largest ever known in London since 1666, involving the loss of property valued at two millions sterling. The ruins were still hot, steaming and smoking, seven weeks after the fire commenced. Mr. Braidwood, chief of the London Fire Brigade, perished in the ruins; a public funeral testified to the esteem in which he was held.

[20] This is not what is called London Stone. That famous stone will be found on the side of St. Swithin’s Church, New Cannon Street. (See p. 168.)