The House by the Thames (38 page)

London Electricity Company, 191

London Hydraulic Power Company, 159, 183, 221

London School Board, 159

Maid (or Maiden) Lane, Southwark, 36–7, 49, 55

Mallison family, 192

Mann, Revd William, 143, 147–8, 171, 179

Mansell (or Mansfield), Thomas, 30

maps and town views, 26–8, 49–50, 134

Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of, 58

Marlowe, Christopher, 31

Marshalsea prison, Southwark, 11, 134

Mary I (Tudor), Queen, 24

Mary, Queen of Scots, 14

Mason stairs, 15–16, 43, 100, 177

Massinger, Philip, 37–8

Matthews, Jessie, 201

Mayhew, Henry, 137–8, 167–8, 185

Meade, Dr Richard, 108

Mearns, Andrew:
The Bitter Cry of Outcast London
, 170

Meath, 12th Earl of
see
Brabazon, Reginald

Metropolitan Board of Works, 9, 127, 152

Metropolitan Police: established, 170

Metropolitan Public Garden, Playground and Boulevard Association, 114

Metropolitan Railway, 162

Millennium Bridge, 2, 178, 228

Mills, Sir John, 201

Millwall Dock, 219

Montagu-Pollock, Fidelity, 205

Montagu-Pollock, Prudence (
née
Williams), 204–5

Montagu-Pollock, Sir William, 204–5

Montague, C.J.:
Sixty Years in Waifdom
, 187

Morgan, William
see
Ogilby, John, and William Morgan

Morley family, 193

Morning Chronicle
, 167

Morning Post
, 167

Morris, William, 99

Moss Alley, 58, 178, 195

Munthe family, 206

Munthe, Axel, 206

Munthe, Guy, 224–6, 231

Munthe, Hilda (
née
Pennington-Mellor), 206

Munthe, Ludvig Malcolm, 206–8, 210–12, 214–15

Newington Butts, 116

Norfolk, John Howard, 1st Duke of, 21

North Southwark Community Development Group, 227

Oakeshott, Michael, 212

Oberon, Merle, 201

Ogilby, John, and William Morgan, 50

Old Swan stairs, 43

Oldner family, 64, 83

Oldner, Sir Richard, 54

Oldner, Sir William, 65, 147

Overend Gurney bank, 159

Oxford Canal, 105

Oxo Tower, 15

Paddington Basin, 106

panoramas, 134–5

Paris Garden, Southwark, 12–15, 17, 25, 36–7, 55

Paris Garden stairs, 14

Paris, Robert de, 13

Park Street, Southwark, 37

Paving Act (1786), 103

Peabody, George, 166

Peak Frean (biscuit manufacturer), 184

Peasants' Revolt (1381), 23

Penny Magazine, The
, 136

People's Refreshment House Association Ltd, 191

Pepys, Samuel, 6, 31, 42, 50–3, 73

Perkins, John, 97–8, 104, 127

Perronet, Edward, 107

Phoenix Gas Company, 141, 183

Pigot's New Commercial Directory
, 109–10, 143

Place, Francis, 169

plague: declines in eighteenth century, 92;
see also
Great Plague

Platter, Thomas, 32

Pond Yard, 17, 58

Pool of London, 8, 136, 217–18

Poole, Mr & Mrs (servants), 202

Poor Law Act (1834), 123

Pott, Robert (vinegar manufacturer), 102, 127, 129

Powell, John, 30

Power Station, Bankside
see
Bankside; Tate Modern

Price, Samuel, 82

Price's oil stores, Bankside, 155

Prickett, Thomas, 104

printing, 95

Pritchett, Sir Victor S., 192–3, 231;
London Perceived
, 217–18

prostitutes (‘Winchester geese'), 20–3, 25

Puritanism, 25

Pye Garden, the (Pike Garden), 15–16, 82, 195

Quaker Meeting House, Bankside, 56

Queen's Wharf, Bankside, 177

Ragged School Union, 187

railways, 126, 132, 135, 138, 155, 161–2

Raven, John, 19, 30

Reformation, 24

Regent's Canal, 106

Rennie family (bridge builders), 13, 95

Rennie, John, 101–2, 133, 223

Restoration, 49, 53

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 96

Rhinebeck panorama, 135

Richard III, King, 12

road traffic, 77

Rocque, John, 83, 94

Rolfe family, 190–1

Rolfe, Henry, 183–4

Romans: in London, 9–10

Rose Theatre, 31, 33–5, 45, 227

Rotunda, Southwark (
later
Surrey Institute), 101

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 108

Royal Barge House, Southwark, 15, 43

Rush, Samuel, 104

Rymen, Devonish, 35

Sainsbury's (company), 184, 221

St George's church, Southwark, 11

St George's Fields, Southwark, 91, 99–100

St John, Knights of, 12, 14

St Katharine's Dock, 218

St Margaret's church, Southwark, 11

St Mary Magdalene church, Southwark, 11

St Mary Overie's Dock, 27–8, 71, 215, 220, 226

St Mary Overy's church, Southwark (
later
St Saviour's), 10–11, 27

St Mary Overy's priory, Southwark, 11

St Olave's parish church, Bermondsey, 11

St Paul's Bridge (proposed), 3–4;
see also
Millennium Bridge

St Paul's cathedral (old), 48, 52

St Paul's cathedral (Wren's), 58–9

St Peter's church, Bankside, 129, 222

St Peter's school, Emerson Street, Southwark, 184

St Saviour's parish church: origins in St Mary Overy, 11–12, 27; rates, 17, 127–9; parish population, 43, 55–6; altered in Commonwealth, 47; burial ground, 51, 112–15; house building, 55; free schools (National and Parochial), 56–7, 154, 184, 220; Poor Rate and Land Rate records, 64; workhouse, 101, 112, 123–4; unheated, 117; poor relief, 118–19, 123–5; repair and rebuilding, 125–9, 135, 229; burial registers, 150; and railway development, 163

St Thomas à Becket's hospital, Bermondsey, 11

St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, 153, 163

Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert, 209, 221, 228

Sells family: Betjeman on, 79; as Bankside residents, 80–1, 89, 143; leaves Bankside, 142, 153, 156, 171; association with Charringtons, 159; family tree, 249

Sells, Arthur, 154

Sells, Sir David Perronet, 159

Sells, Edward: in coal trade, 79, 84, 105; occupies houses on Bankside, 81–2, 86, 88, 146; in Waterman's Company, 83; marriage and children, 84–5; death and will, 89, 106; market sale, 107; in lighterage, 129

Sells, Edward II: follows father's business, 84–5, 105–6; as waterman, 89–90, 105–6; public and parish activities, 104, 116, 118–20, 122–3, 125, 127–9, 131; marriage and children, 106, 109, 123–4, 143; retires to Camberwell, 110, 127; youth, 111; death, 130; and water closets, 144

Sells, Edward (of Walthamstow), 127

Sells, Edward Perronet (Edward II's son): birth, 106–7, 109, 132; as waterman, 124; public and parish activities, 125–7, 130, 154; on rebuilding of London Bridge, 130; moves from Bankside to Bristol, 131, 133; children, 132, 150; death, 133, 156; Bankside houses, 146, 153; in family business, 150; in brother Vincent's will, 151

Sells, Edward Perronet II, 133, 151, 153–4, 159, 198

Sells, Edward Perronet III, 159

Sells, Elizabeth (Edward Perronet II's wife), 157

Sells, John, 107, 109, 124, 157–8

Sells, Martha (Edward's wife), 84

Sells, Sophia Elizabeth (Edward Perronet II's daughter), 107, 109, 151–2, 155, 158

Sells, Sophia Gardiner (
née
Briggs; Edward Perronet II's wife), 106–7, 109

Sells, Vincent: birth, 107, 109; schooling, 124; subscribes to church restoration, 127; resides at and improves Bankside house, 143, 146–7, 198; death and will, 150–1; in family business, 150; leaves Bankside, 150

Sells, William, 116

Selznick, David, 204

Serota, Sir Nicholas, 228

servants, 66–7

sewage, 82–3, 87–8, 144–6, 149, 152–3

Shakespeare, Edmund, 36

Shakespeare, William, 5, 30, 36, 223

Shallett, Arthur, 64

Shallett, Edmund, 64, 81, 83–4, 147

Shallett's meeting house, Bankside, 56

Silkin, Lewis, 210

Sims, George R., 170

Skin Market, 149, 194, 216, 231

Smith, Edmund, 83–4

Smith's balloon view of London, 135–6

Snow, John, 151

Snowden, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, 222

Society of Owners of Coalcraft, 77

South Bank Centre, 230

South London Press (newspaper), 165

South London Visiting Relief Association, 168

South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company, 141

Southwark: as borough, 9–11, 127; disputes with City of London, 11–12; inns and innkeeping, 17; graveyards, 20–1, 51, 111–15; character in early seventeenth century, 38–40; street paving and lighting, 39, 103; under Commonwealth, 48; layout, 49; fires, 52, 101–2, 103, 155–6; house-building and population, 55–6; coaches and coaching, 77, 132; urbanisation, 90, 99, 133; in Gordon Riots, 93; trades and industry, 94–6, 102, 136; mineral springs and spas, 99–100; children's education in, 125; railways, 126, 132, 135, 138, 155, 161–3; cholera epidemics, 151; absorbed into London, 152; drainage system installed (1860s), 152–3; development in late 19th century, 164–6; Metropolitan Police in, 170; cinemas, 196; bombed in Second World War, 205; post-war planning and rebuilding, 208–11, 216–17; post-war industrial and commercial changes, 216, 219–20; population decline (1950s–60s), 217; empty warehouses, 219; present-day character, 232;
see also
Bankside; London; St Saviour's church

Southwark Bridge, 2, 95, 133, 135

Southwark Environment Trust, 228

Southwark Fair, St George's Fields, 91, 99

Southwark Street, 163, 165

Southwark & Vauxhall Waterworks, 151, 159

Sphere, The
(magazine), 210

steamships, 137–9

Stevenson, Cecilie, 197, 199–200

Stevenson, Robert E., 196–204, 230;
Darkness in the Land
, 199

‘stews', 16, 21

Stonor, Thomas, 88

Stow, John, 17, 20, 31, 43, 56, 180;
Survey of London
, 22–4

Strype, John, 58

Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Bridge Road, 175

Surrey County Gaol, Southwark, 11

Surrey Institute
see
Rotunda

Surtees, C.E., 154–5, 158–9

Sutton, Joseph, 171

Swan Theatre, Southwark, 25, 31

tanning, 94, 96, 193

Tate Modern (
formerly
Bankside power station), 2–3, 15, 228–30

Taylor, John (‘the water poet'), 36, 43–7, 77, 117, 139

Templars, 12

Thames, river: and transport, 41–2; freezes over, 46, 117; in Great Plague, 51; horse ferries, 77–8; new bridges, 78, 90, 133; sewage pollution, 82–3, 87, 144–5, 149, 153; and canals, 105–6; shipping and docks, 136–9; fish and fishing, 145; water supply from, 145; railway bridges, 162; industry and trade relocated post-war, 217–19;
see also
watermen

theatres: established north of river, 50;
see also
Globe Theatre; Rose Theatre; Swan Theatre

Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 201

Thrale, Henry, 48, 65, 93, 96–8, 147

Thrale, Hester (Hester Lynch Piozzi), 66, 85, 96, 99

Thrale, Ralph, 83, 95–6

Tilbury, 218

Tiller, Thomas, 88

Tradescant family, 48–50

Trinity Square, Southwark, 150

Tuckfield family, 173–5, 198

Tuckfield, Joseph, 172–3

Tuckfield, William, 172

Twentieth Century Society, 228

Unicorn Alley, 195

Union Street, Southwark, 112

Upper Ground, Southwark, 14

Vauxhall Bridge, 133

Vikings, 10

Visscher, Nicholas John, 26–7, 38

Walbrook, 82

Wanamaker, Sam, 33, 226–8

Wandsworth Prison, 159

Ware, George, 151

Warren family, 184

Warren, Edith, 184

water closets, 87, 144–6

Waterloo Bridge, 2, 95, 133, 135, 229–30

Waterman's Arms (inn), 177–8, 183, 191

watermen: occupation and activities, 42–5; in Great Plague, 51; merge with lightermen, 77–8; rights and status, 77; resist new Thames bridges, 78; regatta (1775), 88; and advent of steamships, 137–8

Watermen's Company, 43–4, 46, 78, 82; Hall, 52, 120

Watt, James, 97

Westminster Bridge, 78, 90, 140

White Bear Inn, Southwark, 173

White Hind Alley, 58, 177, 195

Whitehall Palace, 47

Willow Street, 14

Winchester, Bishops of, 12–13, 15–16, 18, 36, 127–9;
see also
Beaufort, Cardinal Henry

Winchester geese
see
prostitutes

Winchester House, 27–8

Winchester Park, Southwark, 12–14; estate, 122–3

Winifrith, Joan Boniface
see
Lee, Anna

Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 18

women: eighteenth-century lives, 65–6;
see also
prostitutes

Woodmongers and Coal-Sellers Company, 78

Wordsworth, William, 121

workhouses, 101, 112, 123–4

Worsthorne, (Sir) Peregrine, 211–12, 230

Wren, Sir Christopher, 3–5, 58–9, 183, 207–8, 210, 223

Wright, Sells, Dale and Surtees (company), 154

Wyatt, Samuel, 101 Wyatt, Thomas, the younger, 23

Zoar Street (Sanctuary Street), 56, 64