These are a body of retired soldiers of good character, who were originally organized in 1859, by Captain Walter. Their central office, open day and night, is at Exchange Court, 419a Strand, where men can always be hired. But they are also to be seen, and are easily recognisable by their neat dark green uniform and badge, in most large thoroughfares. Their tariff is,—twopence for half-a-mile or under; and threepence for any distance over half-a-mile to a mile. Back fare, or charge for return, (unless bearing a return message,) is not allowed. A charge of one penny per mile extra, if the parcel carried weighs more than 14 lbs. If engaged by time, sixpence per hour, twopence a quarter of an hour, half-a-crown for a day of eight hours. By special arrangement, they may be hired at from 15s. to 20s. per week.
THE GREAT INTERCEPTS MAIN DRAINAGE SYSTEM OF LONDON.
North of the Thames are the High Level, the Middle Level, the Low Level, and the Western District Sewers, together with an Outfall at Barking Creek. The High Level drains Hampstead, Highgate, Kentish Town, Highbury, Stoke Newington, Hackney, and passes under Victoria Park to Old Ford; its length is about 9 miles. The Middle Level runs by way of Kensal Green, Kensington Park, Notting Hill, Bayswater, Oxford Street, and so under a number of minor streets, to Old Ford, being about 12 miles long. The Low Level commences near Pimlico, and passes along under the Thames embankment to Blackfriars, whence it is to go through the City and Whitechapel to West Ham. The Western District Sewers drain Acton, Hammersmith, Fulham, Chelsea, &c., on a plan different from that of the main drainage in other localities. The Outfall, an immense work 6 miles long, continues the Upper and Middle Level Sewers from Old Ford to West Ham, and all the three sewers thence to Barking Creek, where stupendous arrangements are made for conducting the flow of the sewage into the Thames. The drainage south of the Thames comprises a High Level Sewer, a Low Level Sewer, and an Outflow. The High Level drains Clapham, Brixton, Streatham, Dulwich, Camberwell, &c.; the Low Level keeps nearer the Thames, by Wandsworth, Battersea, Vauxhall, Lambeth, Southwark, Bermondsey, and Rotherhithe, to Deptford; while the Outfall continues both these lines of sewers through Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, and across Plumstead Marshes to Crossness Point, where the works are situated for conveying the sewage into the river.
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Abney Park Cemetery, [61]
Achilles’s Statue, [127]
Admission to Places of Interest, [178]
Albert Suspension Bridge, [102]