THE FASCINATION
OF LONDON
THE STRAND DISTRICT
IN THIS SERIES.
Cloth, price 1s. 6d. net; leather, price 2s. net each.
THE STRAND DISTRICT.
By Sir Walter Besant and G. E. Mitton.
WESTMINSTER.
By Sir Walter Besant and G. E. Mitton.
HAMPSTEAD AND MARYLEBONE.
By G. E. Mitton. Edited by Sir Walter Besant.
CHELSEA.
By G. E. Mitton. Edited by Sir Walter Besant.
KENSINGTON.
By G. E. Mitton. Edited by Sir Walter Besant.
HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY.
By Sir Walter Besant and G. E. Mitton.
HAMMERSMITH, PUTNEY, AND FULHAM.
By G. E. Mitton and J. C. Geikie.
MAYFAIR, BELGRAVIA, AND PIMLICO.
In the press.
The Fascination ofLondon
THE STRAND DISTRICT
BY
SIR WALTER BESANT
AND
G. E. MITTON
LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
1903
Published July, 1902
Reprinted, with corrections, April, 1903[Pg vii]
PREFATORY NOTE
A survey of London, a record of the greatest of all cities, that shouldpreserve her history, her historical and literary associations, hermighty buildings, past and present, a book that should comprise all thatLondoners love, all that they ought to know of their heritage from thepast—this was the work on which Sir Walter Besant was engaged when hedied.
As he himself said of it: "This work fascinates me more than anythingelse I've ever done. Nothing at all like it has ever been attemptedbefore. I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and Ifind something fresh in it every day.