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Title: Walks in London
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834-1903
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Publisher: New York : G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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rch,built by Miss Burdett Coutts in 1847, and opposite thisEmery HilVs Almshouses of 1708. At the end of RochesterRow towards Victoria Street is the Grey Coat School^ aquaint building of 1698, with two statues in front in thecostume of the children for whom it was founded. In thenarrow streets near this is Tothill Fields Prison, built 1836.The gate of the earlier prison here, called Bridewell, is pre-served in the garden. At the end of Victoria Street, opposite the entrance toDeans Yard, is a very picturesque Memorial Column, byScott, in memory of the old Westminster boys killed in theCrimean war; and at the corner of Great George Street is a QUEEN ANNES GATE, fyiyt Fountain (by Teuton and Earp)^ erected in 1865 by Mr.Charles Buxton, in honour of those who effected theabolition of the Slave trade. With its pretty colouredmarbles and the trees behind, it is one of the mostpicturesque things in London. Near this is a Statue of GeorgeCannifig by Westmacott, erected in 1832. It was in the
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In Queen Annes Gate. drawing-room of the opposite house, No. 25, Great GeorgeStreet, that the body of Lord Byron lay in state, July 1824,when it arrived from Missolonghi before its removal to New-stead. Great George Street ends at Storeys Gate, so calledfrom Edward Storey, Keeper of the Birds (in BirdcageWalk) to Charles IL Parallel with the Park on this sideruns Queen Annes Gate, with many houses bearing the VOL. II. D D 4«» WALKS IN LONDOrr. comfortable solid look of her date, and with porches anddoorways of admirable design carved in wood: a statue ofQueen Anne stands at an angle. Toihill Street leads into York Street, named afterFrederick, Duke of York, son of George III., but formerlycalled Petty France, from the number of French Protestantswho took refuge there in 1635. Here No. 19, destroyed in1877 (without a voice being raised to save it), was Mi tons* pretty garden house marked on the garden side by atablet erected by Jeremy Bentham (who lived and diedclose by in Queen Squa

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