City Companies. There are eighty-three Companies, and forty-one – nearly a half – without Halls. The Bowyers, Fletchers, and Longbow-string Makers exist but nominally.
Source: A Handbook for London, Past and Present. Peter Cunningham. Published by John Murray 1849.
All Saints Poplar. A parish separated from Stepney, in 1817. See Poplar.
At a fire in Broad-street in the City in 1623, Sir Hugh…
All Hallows, London Wall is an Ancient Parish in the county of…
Idol Lane, Tower Street, or as it is sometimes written, Idle Lane.
The first street in London lighted with gas was Pall Mall, in 1807, and the last street or square lighted with oil was Grosvenor-square, in 1842. The cry of the old London watchman was—”Lantern and a whole candle— Light ! hang out your lights here,” and this cry and kind of lighting (lanterns with cotton-wick candles) continued till the introduction of the glass lights or convex lights in 1694. The first glass lights in use among us were placed on the road between the two palaces of Whitehall and Kensington, and, after the first season of their use, Sir Christopher Wren was instructed to build a shed for their preservation through the summer. But this magnificence was confined to a particular thoroughfare; and twenty-four years after, King William’s three hundred lamps were erected on the road to Kensington; Lady Mary Wortley Montague gives the Paris of 1718 the advantage over London of the same year, “in the regular lighting of the streets at night.” Our lighting, indeed, before the introduction of gas, was miserably imperfect.
York Street, Covent Garden, was so called in compliment to James, Duke…
