CONTENTS General Notes on London Situation and General Description Il Administrative Divisions 13 Police 14 Education 14 New Books on London 15 History of London 15 War Damage 21 Trade and Industry 22
Practical Information 1. Money. Expenses. Passports. Customs. Time ... 22 2. Arrival and Departure by Railway and Air .... 24 3. Hotels and Boarding Houses 26 4. Restaurants and Cafés 28 6. Means of Transport 32 Taxis, Buses, Underground Railways, Motor Coaches, Hiver Steamers, "Waterbuses. 6. Important Addresses 34 Embassies and Consulates, High Commissioners of British Dominions, Travel Agents, Information Bureaux. 7. Postal Information 36 Telephones. 8. Entertainments 38 Theatres, Music Halls, Cinemas, Concerts, Exhibitions, Clubs and Societies. 9. Shops. Newspapers and Periodicals 44 10. Sport 46 11. General Hints 50 Sunday, Bank Holidays, Cautions, lost Property. 12. A London Calendar öl 13. Plan of Visit 63 Preliminary Drive, Table showing Times of Admission to the Principal Sights. Description of London I. The West End 1. Charing Cross. Trafalgar Square. Whitehall .... 57 Nelson Column 57; St. Martin-in-the-Fields 58; Admiralty, Horse Guards, War Office, Banqueting House 59; Boyal United Service Museum 60; Treasury, Downing Street, Cenotaph 62. 2. Houses of Parliament 63 Westminster Hall 66; St. Margaret's 67. 3. Westminster Abbey 68 Westminster School 83. 4. Belgravla, "Victoria Street. Millbank. Thames Embankment 84 Westminster Cathedral 85; Westminster Bridge 88; Cleo patra's Needle, Waterloo Bridge 89. 5. Pall Mall. St. James's Park 90 St. James's Square 01; Marlborough House, St. James's Palace, St. James's Street 92; Lancaster House, Horse Guards Parade, The Kail 98; Buckingham Palace 94. 6. Piccadilly. Mayfair. Hyde Park. Kensington Gardens 05 Burlington House 95; Boyal Academy, Bond Street, Green Park 96; Apsley House, Hyde Part Corner 97; Park Lane, Curzon Street, Berkeley Square 98; Groevenor Square, Roosevelt Memorial 99; Serpentine, Kensington Palace 102. 7- Regent Street. Soho. Oxford Street. Bloomsbury . 102 Piccadilly Circus 102; St. George's, Hanover Square, Oxford Circus 103; Broadcasting House, Leicester Square 104; Shaftesbury Avenue 105 ; Marble Arch, Bayswater 106; New- Oxford Street 107; University of London 108; University College, Dickens House, High Holborn 110. 8. Strand. Kingsway. Covent Garden 110 Adelphi 111; Somerset House, King's College 112; St. _ Clement Danes, Law Courts, Aldwych 113; Lincoln's Inn Fields 114; Sir John Soane's Museum, Theatre Boyal, Drory Lane 115; Boyal Opera, St. Paul's, Covent Garden 116. H. The City 9. Fleet Street. St. Paul's Cathedral 117 Temple Bar 1X7; St. D unstan-in-the-\Yest, Dr. Johnson's House 118; St. Bride's 119.* 10. Inns of Court 124 Temple 125; Public Record Office 126; Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn 128. 11. Holborn. Newgate Street. Cheapside. Guildhall . . 129 Staple Inn 129; Ely Chapel, Holborn Viaduct, St. Sepulchre's 130; Central Criminal Court, Christ Church, General Post Office 131; Goldsmiths' Hall 132; Bow Church 133; St. Giles Cripplegate 136. 12. Smithfield. Finsbury. Clerkenwell 136 St. Bartholomew's Hospital, St. Bartholomew the Great 137; Charterhouse 138; St. John's Gate 139; Bunhill Fields, Honourable Artillery Company 140; Wesley's Chapel 141. 13. From the Bank of England to Bishopsgate and Aldgate. Mansion House, Boyal Exchange, Corn- hill, Lombard Street 141 Stock Exchange 143; St. Helen's, Bishopsgate 144; Leaden- hail Street 145; Lloyd's 146; St. Olave's, Aldgate 147; Houndsditch 148. 14. Blackfriars. Queen Victoria Street. Upper Thames Street. Monument. London Bridge 148 College of Arms 149; Billingsgate Market 150; All Hallows by the Tower 152.
in. West and North London 15. Kensington and Chelsea 155 Knightsbridge, Oratory, Albert Memorial 155; Albert Hall, Imperial Institute 156; Holland House, Leighton House 157; Chelsea Hospital 158; Cheyne Walk, Cariyle's House, Chelsea Old Church 159; Crosby Hall 160. 16. Fulham. Putney. Chiswick 160 Fulham Palace 161; Hammersmith Mall 162; Chiswick House 163. 17. Marylebone. Regent's Park. Zoological Gardens . . 163 St. John's "Wood 164; Lord's Cricket Ground 164. 18. Hampstead and Highgate 166 Tottenham Court Road 167; Camden Town 167; Euston Road 168; Canonbury Tower 169; Keats House 170; Hamp stead Heath 170; Ken Wood 171. IV. The East End 19. Tower of London 173 Tower Bridge 181. 20. Shoreditch. Whitechapel. Stepney. The Port of London 182 Hoxton 182; Geffrye Museum 182; Bethnal Green Museum 184; Commercial Road 184; Wapping 185; Shadwell 185; Limehouse 185; Poplar 185. V. South London 21. Southwark. Lambeth. Dulwieh . . 188 Southward Cathedral 188; Bankside 190; Bermondsey 191; Rothertiithe 191; Elephant
VI. The Great Public Collections 23. British Museum 201 24. National Gallery 217 25. National Portrait Gallery 230 26. Wallace Collection 235 27. Tate Gallery 241 28. London Museum 250 29. Victoria and Albert Museum 251 30. Science and Geological Museums 267 31. Natural History Museum 271 32. Imperial War Museum 273 VII. The Environs 33. Richmond and Kew 276 Syon House 276; Richmond Part 278; Ham House 278; Twickenham 278; Kew Gardens 279. 34. Hampton Court 281 Bushy Park 288. 35. Windsor and Eton 289 36. Epping Forest. Waltham Abbey 296 "Walthamstow 296. 37. St. Albans and the North West Environs 298 Hatfield House 200; Harrow SOI; Beaconsfleld SOI; Jordans 302; Chalfont St. Giles 802; Stoke Pogea 80S. Index 304
Maps and Plans Environs of London (1:191,400) . . . . before the title-page Central London (1:21,300) 200 England and Wales (1: 2,750,000) . . at the end of the book Underground Bail-ways Diagram 57 Houses of Parliament 64 Westminster Abbey 72 St. Paul's Cathedral 120 Tower of London 176 Environs of Hampton Court 282 Windsor Castle 289