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| Introduction. | [iv] |
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| Nine Elms Lane.—The King's Champion. | [3] |
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| Thorne's Brewery.—What Battersea has been called. | [4] |
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| London and South Western Railway Company's Goods Station and |
| Locomotive Works. | [4]-[7] |
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| Mill-Pond Bridge.—New Road. | [8] |
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| A Royal Sturgeon caught in the wheel of the Mill at Mill-Pond Bridge. | [9] |
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| Wallace's Vitriol Works. | [10] |
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| Sleaford Street.—Coal. | [11] |
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| Street Lighting. | [12]-[13] |
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| London Gas-Light Company's Works and Vauxhall Gardens. | [14]-[23] |
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| On a recently-exposed Section at Battersea. | [23]-[24] |
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| Phillips' Fire Annihilating Machine Factory |
| Destroyed.—Brayne's Pottery.—The Old Lime |
| Kilns.—Laver's Cement & Whiting Works. | [25] |
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| The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Works. | [26] |
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| Water Carriers and Water Companies. | [27]-[29] |
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| The Village of Battersea.—Growth of the Parish. | [30]-[31] |
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| Boundaries.—A Legal Contest between Battersea and |
| Clapham Parishes. Clapham Common. | [32]-[33] |
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| Lavender Hill.—The Seat of William |
| Wilberforce.—Eminent Supporters of the |
| Anti-Slavery Movement.—Frances Elizabeth Leveson |
| Gower. Mr. Thornton.—Philip Cazenove.—Charles |
| Curling, Lady George Pollock, and others. | [34]-[36] |
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| Battersea Market Gardens and Gardeners. | [36]-[37] |
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| Stages set out for Battersea from the City.—Annual |
| Fair.—Inhabitants supplied with Water from |
| Springs.—The Manor of Battersea before the Conquest. | [38] |
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| Battersea and its association with the St. Johns. | [39] |
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| Henry St. John Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. | [40]-[42] |
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| A Horizontal Air Mill. | [43] |
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| St. Mary's Church. | [44]-[46] |
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| The Indenture. | [47]-[48] |
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| Epitaphs and Sepulchral Monuments. | [49]-[51] |
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| Rectory and Vicarage. | [52] |
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| A Petition or Curious Document. | [53] |
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| Dr. Thomas Temple.—Dr. Thomas Church. | [54] |
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| Cases of Longevity.—The Plague.—The Three |
| Plague Years.—Deaths in Battersea. | [55]-[56] |
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| Vicars of Battersea from Olden Times. | [56]-[57] |
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| Thomas Lord Stanley.—Lawrence Booth. | [57] |
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| York House. | [58] |
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| Battersea Enamel Works.—Porcelain.—Jens Wolfe, |
| Esq.—Sherwood Lodge.—Price's Patent Candle |
| Factory. | [59]-[62] |
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| Candlemas. | [63]-[64] |
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| The Saw.—Mark Isambard Brunel's Premises at |
| Battersea.—Establishment for the preservation of |
| timber from the dry rot burnt down. | [65] |
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| History of the Ferry.—The Old Wooden Bridge. | [66]-[67] |
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| Albert Suspension Bridge. | [68]-[69] |
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| Chelsea Suspension Bridge. | [70] |
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| The Prince of Wales.—Freeing the Bridges "For Ever." | [71]-[73] |
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| The Stupendous Railway Bridge across the Thames. | [74] |
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| The spot where Cæsar and his legions are stated by some |
| antiquarians to have crossed the river. | [75] |
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| A haunted house.—Battersea Fields.—Duel between |
| the Duke of Wellington and Lord Winchelsea. | [76] |
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| The Red House. | [77] |
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| "Gyp" the Raven.—Billy the Nutman.—Sports. | [78] |
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| "The Old House at Home."—Sabbath Desecration. | [79] |
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| Her Majesty's Commissioners empowered by Act of Parliament |
| to form a Royal Park in Battersea Fields.—Wild |
| Flowers.—Battersea Park. | [80]-[84] |
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| London, Brighton and South-Coast Railway Company's two |
| Circular Engine Sheds and West-End Goods Traffic Department. | [85]-[86] |
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| Long-Hedge Farm.—London, Chatham and Dover Railway |
| Locomotive Works. | [87]-[90] |
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| A Canvas Cathedral. | [91] |
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| H.P. Horse Nail Company's Factory. | [94] |
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| St. George's Church, its clergy, its graveyard, epitaphs |
| and inscriptions (St. Andrew's Temporary Iron Church [96]). | [95]-[99] |
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| Christ Church, its clergy. | [100] |
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| St. John's Church. | [101] |
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| St. Paul's Church. | [102] |
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| St. Philip's Church. | [103] |
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| St. Mark's Church. | [104] |
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| St. Luke's Chapel-of-Ease. | [105] |
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| St. Saviour's Church. | [106] |
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| St. Peter's Church. | [107] |
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| Temporary Church of the Ascension.—St. |
| Michael's Church. | [108] |
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| All Saints' Temporary Iron Church.—Rochester Diocesan |
| Mission, St. James', Nine Elms. | [111] |
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| St. Aldwin's Mission Chapel.—The Church of our Lady |
| of Mount Carmel and St. Joseph. | [112] |
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| Church of the Sacred Heart.—The Old Baptist Meeting |
| House, Revs. Mr. Browne, Joseph Hughes, M.A., (John Foster), |
| Edmund Clark, Enoch Crook, I. M. Soule, Charles Kirtland. | [113]-[116] |
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| Baptist Temporary Chapel, Surrey Lane. | [116] |
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| Battersea Park Temporary Baptist Chapel. | [117] |
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| Baptist (Providence) Chapel. | [118] |
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| Baptist Chapel, Chatham Road.—Wesleyan Methodist |
| Mission Room and Sunday School.—United Methodist |
| Free Church, Church Road, Battersea.—The United |
| Methodist Free Church, Battersea Park Road. | [119] |
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| Primitive Methodist Chapel, New Road. | [119] |
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| Primitive Methodist Chapel, Grayshott Road.—Primitive |
| Methodist Chapel, Plough Lane. | [121] |
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| St. George's Mission Hall.—Battersea Congregational |
| Church, (Independent), Bridge Road. | [122] |
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| Stormont Road Congregational Church, Lavender Hill. | [123] |
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| Wesleyan Methodism in Battersea. | [124]-[126] |
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| Methodist Chronology. | [127] |
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| Wesleyan Chapel, Queen's Road. | [128] |
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| Free Christian Church, Queen's Road. | [129] |
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| Trinity Mission Hall, Stewart's Lane.—Plymouth |
| Brethren. | [130] |
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| "The Little Tabernacle."—Thomas Blood. | [131] |
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| Battersea Priory.—Alien Priories. | [132] |
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| Ursulines. | [132]-[134] |
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| Battersea Grammar School, St. John's Hill. | [134] |
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| The Southlands Practising Model Schools.—St. Peter's |
| Schools.—St. Saviour's Infant. | [136] |
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| Christ Church National Schools.—St. George's National |
| Schools.—Voluntary Schools. | [136] |
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| London Board Schools. | [137] |
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| London School Board, Lambeth Division. | [138] |
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| The Elementary Education Acts.—Regulations affecting |
| Parent and Child. | [139]-[140] |
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| A Coffee Palace.—Latchmere Grove.—Plague |
| Spots.—The Shaftesbury Park Estate. | [141]-[142] |
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| The Metropolitan Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings |
| Association. | [143]-[144] |
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| Latchmere Allotments.—Dove Dale Place.—An Old |
| Boiler.—Lammas Hall.—The Union Workhouse. | [145] |
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| Old Battersea Workhouse.—The "Cage."—The |
| "Stocks." | [146] |
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| The Falcon Tavern.—A Cantata. | [147] |
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| Origin of Bottled Ale in England.—"Ye Plough |
| Inn."—"The Old House."—Stump of an Old Oak Tree. | [148] |
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| "Lawn House," Lombard Road.—The Prizes for the Kean's |
| Sovereigns and the Funny Boat Race.—The Old Swan |
| Tavern.—Royal Victoria Patriotic Schools. | [149] |
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| St. James' Industrial Schools.—Royal Masonic |
| Institution for Girls. | [150] |
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| Clapham Junction.—Battersea Provident Dispensary. | [151] |
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| Wandsworth Common Provident Dispensary.—Charity |
| Organization Society.—The Penny Bank.—No. |
| 54 Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station.—Origin of |
| Fire Brigades. | [152] |
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| The Metropolitan Police.—Police Stations, |
| Battersea.—St. John's College of the National Society. | [153] |
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| The Vicarage House School.—Various Wharves and |
| Factories. | [154] |
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| Mr. George Chadwin.—T. Gaines.—Tow's Private |
| Mad House.—The Patent Plumbago Crucible Company's |
| Works. | [155] |
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| Silicated Carbon Filter Company's Works. | [156] |
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| Condy's Manufactory.—Citizen Steamboat Company's Works. | [157] |
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| Orlando Jones & Co.'s Starch Works. | [157]-[159] |
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| Battersea Laundries.—Spiers and |
| Pond's.—Propert's Factory.—The London and |
| Provincial Steam Laundry. | [159]-[160] |
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| St. Mary's (Battersea) Cemetery.—Numerous Epitaphs |
| and Inscriptions. Scale of Fees, etc. | [161]-[175] |
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| The Battersea Charities. | [175] |
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| Parish Officers.—Vestrymen. | [176]-[178] |
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| Battersea Tradesmen's Club.—Temporary Home for Lost |
| and Starving Dogs. | [179]-[180] |
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| London, Chatham and Dover Railway—Battersea Park |
| Station—York Road Station (Brighton Line).—West |
| London Commercial Bank. London and South Western |
| Bank.—Temperance and Band of Hope |
| Meetings.—South London Tramways in |
| Battersea—Fares. | [180]-[181] |