Father Thames - Walter Higgins

Abingdon, [263-5]
Alfred, King, [141], [249]
All Hallows, Barking, [75]
Ancient Britons, [120-6]
Arnold, Matthew, [261]
Arthur, King, [287]
Barking, [71-6]
Abbey, [72-5]
Sewage Works, [75-6]
Barnes, [338-9]
Battersea, [340], [347]
Baynards Castle, [160]
Becket, Thomas, [145], [151], [274]
Benfleet, [39]
Besant, Sir Walter, [162-3], [184]
Big Ben, [225]
Billingsgate, [101-2]
Black Death, [161]
Blackfriars, [195-7]
Blackwall, [112-3]
Tunnel, [113]
Boatrace, Universities, [259], [338]
Boleyn, Anne, [175-7], [310-11]
Brentford, [336]
Bridges, [205], [230], [232], [242]
Buckingham Palace, [208]
Bushey Park, [316]
Canning Town, [114]
Canute, [141-2]
Canvey Island, [38-9]
Cement, [49], [55-6]
Chatham, [46-7]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, [162], [294]
Chelsea, [341], [343-4], [347]
Cherwell, [257-8]
Chilterns, [10], [268-70]
Cholsey, [284]
Churn, River, [240]
Cleopatra’s Needle, [228]
Cliveden Woods, [282-3]
Coal, [114-5], [164-5]
Coldharbour Palace, [160]
Colne, River, [240]
Cookham, [279]
Cooling Castle, [52-3]
County Hall, [232-3]
Cremorne Gardens, [343]
Cricklade, [240]
Crosby Hall, [159]
Culham, [284]
Cumnor, [243]
Customs Officers, [115-6]
Dagenham Breach, [70]
Dagenham Dock, [71]
Marshes, [68-71]
Danes, [18], [33], [140-1]
Defoe, Daniel, [36], [183-4]
Dene-holes at Grays, [67-8]
De Ruyter, [41]
Dickens, Charles, [51], [52]
Dockland, [24-6]
Docks: Blackwall, [112-3]
East India, [104]
Execution, [102], [110]
London, [110-1]
Millwall, [112]
Regent’s Canal, [111]
Royal Albert, [113-4]
St. Katherine’s, [102], [105]
St. Saviour’s, [102], [108]
Surrey Commercial, [112]
Victoria, [113]
West India, [112]
“Don Saltero,” [343]
Dorchester, [265-6]
Duke of Buckingham, [205]
Dumouriez, [53]
Durham Palace, [207]
Dutch in the Medway, [42-5]
Eastchurch, [35]
East Ham, [113-4]
East India Docks, [104]
Edward the Confessor, [211]
Eleanor of Provence, [153], [223]
Embankment, The, [227-8]
Estuary, The, [16-19], [31-39]
defence of, [52]
Eton College, [298-304]
Evelyn, John, [41], [61-2], [186-90]
Evenlode, River, [243]
Execution Dock, [110-1]
Fire of London, the Great, [159]
FitzStephen, [145-7]
Flamsteed, [99]
Fleet River, [193-5]
Street, [195]
Fobbing, [60]
Fort Grain, [35]
Franklin, Sir John, [66]
Frindsbury, [49]
Fulham, [339]
Godstow, [243]
Goring Gap, [267-8]
Gravesend, [52-6]
proposed dam, [62-3]
Grays, [67]
Great Marlow, [281-2]
Greenhithe, [21], [66]
Greenwich, [87-100]
Hospital, [92-7]
Ministerial dinners at, [91]
Observatory, [98-100]
Royal births at, [89]
Grey, Lady Jane, [175]
Hakluyt, [90-1]
Halley, [100]
Hampton Court, [305-16]
Harold, King, [143], [288]
Henley, [280-1]
Holiday Thames, [279-284]
Houses of Parliament, [220-6]
Howard, Katherine, [175-7]
“Humphrey Clinker,” [342]
Humphrey, Duke, [88]
Hungerford House, [206]
Iffley, [262]
Isis, [239], [259]
Isle of Dogs, [112]
Grain, [35]
Isleworth, [332]
Jack Straw, [60]
John Ball, [60]
Jones, Inigo, [92]
Kelmscott, [241]
Kennet, River, [277]
Kew Gardens, [333-5]
Palace, [335]
Kingston, [317-25]
Knights of the Garter, [296-7]
Knights Templar, [199-202]
Lambeth, [344-7]
Lechlade, [239]
Legal quays, [102]
Limehouse, [111-2]
Basin, [111]
Reach, Medway, [49]
Llyndin Hill, [125], [130]
London, a city of palaces, [157]
and the Danes, [140-2]
Fire of, [181-192]
fires in, [25], [151], [181]
fogs, [23]
foundation of, [123-9]
Friars in, [195-8]
Hospitals, [233]
in Norman days, [143-6]
in Middle Ages, [157-65]
in Roman days, [130-6]
in Saxon days, [137-40]
Plague in, [183-4]
reasons for position of, [126-9]
remains of Roman Wall, [133-6]
Tower of, [166-80]
London Bridge, [147-156]
a great procession on, [155]
a tournament on, [154]
its dangers, [151]
its relation to the City, [128-9]
L.C.C. County Hall, [232]
London Dock, [110-1]
London Stone, Yantlet Creek, [35]
Lower Reaches, [19-23]
Macfarlane, Charles, [42]
Maidenhead, [46]
Marshes on banks, [16], [64-76]
Mandeville, Geoffrey de, [171-2]
Matilda, Empress, [170-2]
Maud of Boulogne, [105], [171]
Medway, River, [40-51]
Merton, Walter de, [251]
Millwall Dock, [112]
Minster-in-Sheppey, [32]
Monument, The, [181-2]
Morris, William, [241-2]
Mortlake, [338]
New Bridge, [242]
Nore Lightship, [15], [118]
Northfleet, [65-6]
Northumberland House, [207]
Old Windsor, [287]
Oxford, [246-262]
Bodleian Library, [255]
Castle, [256]
Colleges, [251-5]
founding of the University, [249-51]
its origin, [247-8]
Tom Tower, [254]
Pangbourne, [279]
Peasants’ Revolt, [60]
Pepys, Samuel, [34], [77], [186]
Peter of Colechurch, [148]
Pett, Peter, [47]
Pilots, [55]
Placentia, Palace of, [89]
Plague, the Great, [183-4]
Pool, The, [26-8]
Port Meadow, [243]
Port of London, [23-6], [101-19]
Authority, [15], [118-19]
Port Victoria, [35]
Princes in Tower, [171]
Purfleet, [68]
Putney, [338-9]
Queenborough, [35]
Queenhithe, [101]
Radley, [284]
Ranelagh Gardens, [343]
Reading, [271-8]
Abbey, [272-6]
and the Civil War, [275]
modern, [277-8]
Regent’s Canal Dock, [111]
Richmond, [326-31]
River police, [116-8]
Rochester, [49-51]
Roding, River, [71-2]
Roman remains in London, [132-5]
Rosherville Gardens, [65]
Rotherhithe, [113]
Royal Albert Dock, [113-4]
Victoria Dock, [113-4]
Savoy Palace, [204-5]
Saxon Kings crowned at Kingston, [319-20]
“Scholar Gypsy,” [261-2]
Scotland Yard, [207]
Shadwell, [105]
Sheen, [327]
Sheerness, [34]
Sheppey, [31-3]
Shoeburyness, [37-8]
Shooter’s Hill, [77-9]
Silvertown, [114]
Sion House, [332]
Somerset House, [203]
Sonning, [279-80]
Southend, [36-7]
St. James’s Park, [207]
St. Katherine’s Dock, [102], [105]
St. Paul’s Cathedral, [124], [188], [191], [211]
St. Saviour’s Dock, [102], [108]
St. Thomas’s Hospital, [233]
Staple Inn, [159]
Stephen, King, [170], [256], [267]
Stow, [161], [179]
Strand, The, [193]
Streatley, [268]
“Stripling Thames,” [237-45]
Stroud, [49]
Surrey Commercial Dock, [112]
Swale, The, [41]
Tea, [106]
Teddington, [325]
Temple Bar, [232]
Church, [201]
Gardens, [202]
Temple, The, [199-203]
Thame, River, [265]
Thames Haven, [68]
Thames Head, [237]
Thames River, early tributaries of, [239]
geology of, [267-70]
locks on, [243-5]
material brought down by, [64-5]
origin of, [2-5]
reasons for importance, [11-14]
terraces of bed, [283-4]
the basin of, [7-10]
the sources, [237-9]
tunnels under, [113]
Thorney Island, [130], [211-2]
Tilbury, [57-63]
Docks, [71], [104]
Fort, [57]
Elizabeth at, [57-8]
Tower Bridge, [231]
Tower of London, [166-80]
Trewsbury Mead, [237-9]
Twickenham, [325]
Upnor Castle, [4]
Vale of the White Horse, [241]
Vauxhall Gardens, [341-3]
Wallingford, [144], [266-7]
Wandle, River, [340]
Wandsworth, [339]
Wapping, [108-10]
Old Stairs, [108-10]
Watling Street, [126], [130], [132], [144]
Wat Tyler, [60], [156], [204]
Waynflete, William, [299]
West Ham, [113-4]
West India Dock, [104], [112]
Westminster, [209-226]
the founding of, [210]
Westminster Abbey, [212-9]
Chapter House, [218]
Confessor’s Chapel, [213]
founding of, [212]
Henry VII. Chapel, [215]
Poets’ Corner, [215]
Remains of Old Abbey, [213]
Tomb of Unknown Warrior, [218]
Westminster Hall, [222]
Palace, [220]
Whitefriars, [197-9]
Whitehall Palace, [207-8]
Whittington, Dick, [165]
Widths of the Thames, [15], [26]
William and Mary, [92], [309]
William the Conqueror, [73], [143], [256], [266], [285], [288]
Windrush, River, [242]
Windsor, [285-304]
growth of Castle, [288-95]
origin of, [287]
Round Tower, [297]
St. George’s Chapel, [296]
Wolsey, Cardinal, [207], [253], [305]
Woolwich, [77-86]
Arsenal, [81-6]
Dockyard, [80-1]
Wren, Sir Christopher, [92], [228], [309], [312]
Wykeham, William, [35], [293], [298]
Yantlet Creek, [35]
York House, [205]

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