The House by the Thames (36 page)

Several other previous occupants of the house in the middle decades of the twentieth century have generously shared their memories of the house with me, especially Dan Black but also Peregrine Worsthorne, June Plaat and Hubert Montagu-Pollock. Also the late Anna Lee and her sister Ruth Wood. My thanks, too, to Anna Lee's son, Jeffrey Byron, who helped to organise my meeting with her at what turned out to be only a few months before her death.

All the staff of Southwark Local History Library have provided courteous and friendly help, but I would particularly mention the Archivist Stephen Humphrey, whose very extensive knowledge of the area and its history has been placed at my disposal. The staff of the Guildhall Library, particularly John Fisher and Jeremy Smith in the Prints and Maps section, have also been extremely helpful and understanding. My thanks too to the Museum of London, especially to Mark Bills, Julia Cochrane and Emma Shapley. My thanks also, as often before with earlier books, to the well-informed staff of the London Library, to the Metropolitan Archives and to the Family History Centre.

At different stages in the book's preparation, a number of individuals have been helpful with recommendations, contact addresses, suggestions, advice on sources, reminiscences, references, the loan of material and other forms of support and encouragement. These include Adam Bakker, Peter Barber, Paul Barker, Colin Brewer, Roger Cazalet, Dan Cruickshank, Sara Davies, Nicholas Deakin, Richard Dennis, Tony Flower, David Goreham, Nicholas Hale, Simon Jenkins, Thomas Kirby, Nick Lacey, Richard Lansdown, Fred Manson, Nicholas and Elizabeth Monck, Adam Pollock, Mike Shaw, Gene Simons, Gavin Stamp, Colin Thubron, Nicholas Tindall, Al and Martha Vogeler. Also Douglas Matthews, champion indexer. My gratitude to all of the above, for their time and interest – and also, especially, to two architects: Jon Finney, who took an interest in my self-compiled panorama of Bankside in 1880, and Chris Oliver, who took a great deal of trouble revamping my drawings to his own professional standards and lettering them.

Particular thanks, also, to Colin Mabberley, in his capacity as Grace Golden's executor; to Alan Runagall, the present owner of Trevor Chamberlain's painting
Bankside 1970;
and to Cordelia Stamp, the copyright holder of Albert Pile's work.

Permission to quote freely from his poem
Parliament Hill Fields
was given to me almost thirty years ago by the late Sir John Betjeman, in a personal communication. My gratitude now, as then: my only regret is that he is no longer here to be amused by the discovery that he had himself visited the long-term home of the family whose name formed one of his childhood memories.

Printed works

For a book such as this there are two essential published works which provide the starting point for all other research. These are the Bankside volume (Vol. XXII) of the admirable
Survey of London
, published by the LCC in 1950, and the relevant Surrey volume (Vol. 4, part 1) of the extensive
Victoria County History
, published in 1912. In addition, there are the invaluable series of old maps reproduced by the London Topographical Society, namely:

The A–Z of Elizabethan London
, Introductory Notes by John Fisher, 1979

The A–Z of Georgian London
, Introductory Notes by Ralph Hyde, 1982

The A–Z of Regency London
, Introduction by Paul Laxton, 1985

The A–Z of Victorian London
, Introductory Notes by Ralph Hyde, 1987

It would be difficult to cite every book which, over the years, has nourished my view of London, but here follows a fairly comprehensive, if heterogenous, list of those works that have contributed to the present book. All are published in London except where another provenance is given. Where they have been produced by organisations that are not essentially publishers, their names are given.

Ackroyd, Peter,
Dickens' London, an Imaginative Vision
, 1987

—— Blake
, 1995

Acorn, George,
One of the Multitude
, 1911

Anon.,
Grey & Martin – City Lead Works
, GLIAS Newsletter No.79, 1982

Anon.,
Southwark Past and Present
, Southwark Borough Council, 1932

Anon.,
Tracts on Nursing Children, 1721–53

Aubrey, John,
Brief Lives
, edited by John Buchanan-Brown, 2000

Barker, Felix and Hyde, Ralph,
London as it Might Have Been
, 1982

—— and Jackson, Peter,
London: Two hundred years of a city and its people, 1974

Besant, Walter,
The Bell of St Paul's
, 1889

——
South London
, 1898

——
London South of the Thames
, 1912

Bodger, Charlotte G.,
Southwark and its Story
, 1881

Booth, Charles,
Life and Labour of the People of London
, 1902–03

Boulton, Jeremy,
Neighbourhood and Society in a London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century
, Cambridge, 1987

Bowers, Robert W.,
Sketches of Southwark Old and New
, 1905

Burford, E. J.,
London: The Synfulle Citie
, 1990

Capp, Bernard,
The World of John Taylor, the Water-Poet
, Oxford, 1994

Carlin, Martha,
Medieval Southwark
, Hambledon Press, 1996

Carson, Neil,
A Companion to Henslowe's Diary
, Cambridge, 1998

Clayton, Antony,
Subterranean City; Beneath the Streets of London
, 2000

Concannen, M. Junior. and Morgan, A.,
The History and Antiquities of the Parish of St Saviour's, Southwark
, 1795

Croad, Stephen,
Liquid History, the Thames Through Time
, 2003

Cruickshank, Dan and Burton, Neil,
Life in the Georgian City
, 1990

—— and Wyld, Peter,
London: The Art of Georgian Building
, 1975

Darlington, Ida and Howgego, James,
Printed Maps of London c.1553–1850
, 1964

Darwin, Bernard (as told to),
Two Hundred Years in the Coal-Trade
, privately published, 1931

de Maré, Eric,
The London Doré Saw: A Victorian Evocation
, 1973

Defoe, Daniel,
Journal of the Plague Year
, 1722

Dickens, Charles,
Little Dorrit
, 1857

—— Our Mutual Friend
, 1865

Dodd, George,
Days in the Factories, or the Manufactury Industry of Great Britain Described
, 1843

Dyos, H. J.,
Victorian Suburb
, Leicester 1974

Earle, Peter,
The Making of the English Middle Classes: Business, Society and Family Life in London 1660–1730
, 1989

——
A City Full of People: Men and Women of London, 1650–1750
, 1994

Evelyn, John,
Fumifugium
, 1661

——
Diary
, edited by E. S. de Beer, Oxford, 1959

Fletcher, Geoffrey,
London's River
, 1966

Foakes, R. A., editor,
Henslowe's Diary
, Cambridge, 2002

Fraser-Stephens, Elspet,
The Story of the Charringtons: Two Centuries in the London Coal Trade
, privately published, 1952

Geijer, Eric Gustaf,
Impressions of England 1809–1810
, introduced by Anton Blanck, 1932

George, Dorothy M.,
London Life in the Eighteenth Century
, 1925

Gilbey, Elizabeth W.,
Wages in Eighteenth Century England
, Cambridge, Mass., 1934

Glanville, Philippa,
London in Maps
, 1972

Golden, Grace,
Old Bankside
, 1951

Guillery, Peter,
The Small House in Eighteenth Century London
, New Haven, 2004

Hall, P. G.,
The Industries of London since 1861
, 1962

Halliday, Stephen,
The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis
, Stroud, Glos., 1999

Halton, Edward,
A New View of London
, 1708

Harrison, Shirley and Evemy, Sally,
Southwark: Who Was Who
, London Borough of Southwark, 2001

Harrison, William,
The Description of Britain 1557–1587
, edited by Ernest Rhys, 1876

Hayward, A., editor,
Dr Johnson's Mrs Thrale
, 1910

Hollinshed, John,
Ragged London
, 1861

Humphrey, Stephen,
Southwark, Bermondsey and Rotherhithe in Old Photographs
, Stroud, Glos., 1995, a Second Selection 1997

——
Southwark, the Twentieth Century
, Stroud, Glos., 1999

——
The Cuming Family, and the Cuming Museum
, London Borough of Southwark, 2001

Inwood, Stephen,
A History of London
, 1998

Jackson, Peter,
London Bridge
, 1971

——
Introducing Tallis's London Street Views 1838–40
, London Topographical Society, 1969

Jephson, H.,
The Sanitary Evolution of London
, London County Council, 1907

Jones, Jennifer,
Southwark: a History of Bankside, Bermondsey and ‘The Borough'
, South Thames Training and Enterprise Council 1996

Lambton, Lucinda,
Temples of Convenience and Chambers of Delight
, 1995

Layton, Walter T.,
The Early Years of the South Metropolitan Gas Company
, 1920

Lettsom, Dr,
Hints Designed to Promote Beneficence, Temperance and Medical Science
, 1801, edition with introduction by John Cookley, 1816

Luckin, Bill,
Pollution and Control: a social history of the Thames in the nineteenth century
, Bristol, 1986

Malcolm, James Peller,
Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century
, 1810

Mayhew, Henry,
London Labour and the London Poor
, Vols 1–4 (especially Vol. 3), 1861–62

Misson, Henri,
Mémoires Faites par un Voyageur en Angleterre
, 1698

Montague, C. J.,
Sixty Years in Waifdom
, 1904

Morton, H. V.,
The Nights of London
, 1926

Mould, R. W.,
Southwark Men of Mark
, Borough of Southwark Libraries, 1903

Nead, Lynda,
Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth Century London
, New Haven, 2000

Nef, J. W.,
The Rise of the British Coal Industry
, 1932

O'Connell, Sheila,
London 1753
, British Museum Press, 2003

Olsen, Donald J.,
The Growth of Victorian London
, 1976

Orrell, John,
The Quest for Shakespeare's Globe
, Cambridge, 1983

Pepys, Samuel,
Diary
, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, 1970

Picard, Liza,
Restoration London
, 1997

Pierce, Patricia,
Old London Bridge
, 2001

Pike, E. Royston,
Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution in Britain
, 1966

——
Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age
, 1967

——
Human Documents of the Age of the Forsytes
, 1969

——
Human Documents of the Lloyd George Era
, 1972

Platter, Thomas and Busino, Horatio,
The Journals of Two Travellers in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
, Ipswich, 1995

Porter, Stephen,
The Great Fire of London
, Stroud, Glos., 1996

——
The Great Plague
, Stroud, Glos., 1999

Pritchett, V. S.,
London Perceived
, 1962

——
A Cab at the Door
, 1968

Pudney, John,
Crossing London's River
, 1972

——
London's Docks, 1975

Reilly, Leonard,
Southwark: an Illustrated History
, London Borough of Southwark, 1998

—— and Marshall, Geoffrey,
The Story of Bankside
, London Borough of Southwark, 2001

Rendle, William,
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, 1888

Richardson, A. E., ‘London Re-Planned: The Royal Academy Planning Committee's Interim Report',
Country Life
, 1942

Richardson, Rev. J.,
Recollections of the Last Half Century
, 1855

Rudé, George,
Hanoverian London 1714–1808
, 1971

Sabaag, Karl,
Power into Art
, 2000

Saint, Andrew, ‘The Building Art of the First Industrial Metropolis 1784–1873', chapter in
London – World City 1800–1840
edited by Celina Fox, Yale, 1992

Sala, George Augustus,
Gas and Daylight
, 1859

Schwartz, L. D.,
London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, labour force and living conditions 1700–1850
, 1992

Seymour, Claire,
Ragged Schools, Ragged Children
, Ragged School Museum Trust, 1995

Shelley, Henry C.,
Inns and Taverns of Old London
, 1909

Shepherd, Thomas,
London in the Nineteenth Century
, 1829

Sims, George R., editor,
Living London
, 1901–2

Spalding, Frances,
The Tate: a History
, 1998

Spence, Craig,
Atlas of 1690s London
, 2000

Stamp, Gavin,
The Changing Metropolis, Earliest Photographs of London
1839–1879, 1984

—— ‘Giles Gilbert Scott and Bankside Power Station', chapter in
The Building of Tate Modern
, 2000

Stow, John,
The Survey of London
, 1598

Tames, Richard,
Southwark Past
, 2001

Waller, Maureen,
1700: Scenes from London Life
, 1988

Wagner, Gillian,
Barnardo
, 1979

Weinreb, Ben and Hibbert, Christopher, editors,
The London Encyclopaedia
, 1983

White, H. P.,
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain
, Vol. III, 1969

Worsthorne, Peregrine,
Tricks of Memory
, 1995