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Title: The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Weale, John, 1791-1862
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Publisher: London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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riages. 5. Harness room, with cleaning room ad- joining. 6. Pony stable of 12 stalls, and two of 6 stalls; saddle-horse stables of 6 and 8 stalls. 7. Saddle room, with cleaning and boiling room adjoining. 8. The royal entrance to the mews. 9. Stairs to dormitory over the riding house. 10. Descending covered way. 11. Riding house. 12. Entrance to the riding house, staircase to the Queens gallery, and equerrieswaitingroom. 13. The middle or saddle-horse court. 14. Stables for 25 horses. 15. Saddle room, with cleaning and boiling room adjoining. 16. Three loose boxes. 17. Coach-horse court. 18. Stables for 39 roadsters and hacks. 19. Standings for carriages. 20. Harness rooms. 21. Harness cleaning room. 22. Loose box court, with 10 loose boxes. 23. A veterinary forge. 24. The town gate of the royal mews. 25. The lodge and coachmens dwellings. 26. The stablemens dwelling, mess room, &c. 27. The residence of the clerk of the stables. EXCURSIONS TO THE VICINITY. —STABLES, WINDSOR. 867
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F P 2 868 LONDON. The mews is divided into four courts; the upper, called the ponycourt, contains the ponies, the Queens saddle-horses, and carriages. The next, the saddle-horse court, contains the horses of his RoyalHighness Prince Albert. The third, or coach-horse court, contains the roadsters and the coachhorses; and the lowest, or court of loose boxes, near to which is theveterinary surgeons apartments and the veterinary forge. Thenumber of stalls, including the loose boxes, is 112, and of standingsfor carriages about 40. There is a peculiarity in these mews worthy of notice, which is thetotal absence of the wives and children of the stablemen, who areplaced in separate buildings with no access to the mews. The large building, No. 20 on the Plan, opposite the saddle-horsecourt, contains the dwelling-rooms of the married stablemen andtheir families, and there is no connection whatever between that partof the building which is beyond the lodge and the mess rooms, andother rooms used

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