PENNY GREEN’S LONDON A guide to the locations in the Penny Green Victorian Mystery Series © Emily Organ 2019 Image: The Museum Tavern, Bloomsbury Image © Emily Organ 2 Table of Contents Central London ............................................................................................................ 5 Reading Room, The British Museum, Bloomsbury ...................................................................................... 5 The Museum Tavern, Bloomsbury ..................................................................................................................... 5 Russell Square, Bloomsbury .................................................................................................................................. 5 Midland Grand Hotel, King’s Cross ..................................................................................................................... 6 Euston Station ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden .................................................................................................... 6 Fleet Street .................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street ............................................................................................................... 7 Twinings tea shop, The Strand ............................................................................................................................. 7 St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield ................................................................................................. 8 St Giles ............................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Bow Street Police Station and Magistrate’s Court ....................................................................................... 9 Hammam Turkish Baths, Jermyn Street .......................................................................................................... 9 Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly ............................................................................................................................... 9 St James’s Square .................................................................................................................................................... 10 East India Club, St James’s Square ................................................................................................................... 10 Scotland Yard, Whitehall ..................................................................................................................................... 10 India Office, Whitehall .......................................................................................................................................... 10 The Royal Aquarium, Westminster ................................................................................................................. 11 Hyde Park ................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Hyde Park Gate ........................................................................................................................................................ 11 Kensington Court, Kensington .......................................................................................................................... 11 Natural History Museum, South Kensington .............................................................................................. 12 City of London ............................................................................................................ 13 City of London police headquarters, Old Jewry ......................................................................................... 13 Milton Street ............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Change Alley .............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Tower Subway .......................................................................................................................................................... 14 South London ............................................................................................................. 15 Astley’s Amphitheatre, Lambeth ...................................................................................................................... 15 London Necropolis Railway, Cemetery Station, Waterloo .................................................................... 15 The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Lambeth ............................................................................................................ 15 St Thomas’s Hospital, Lambeth ......................................................................................................................... 15 Royal Doulton Pottery, Lambeth ...................................................................................................................... 16 Gonsalva Road, Battersea .................................................................................................................................... 16 St Mary Magdalen Church, Bermondsey ....................................................................................................... 16 The Crystal Palace, Sydenham ........................................................................................................................... 16 West Norwood Cemetery .................................................................................................................................... 17 Chislehurst Caves, Chislehurst .......................................................................................................................... 17 East London ............................................................................................................... 18 Commerical Street police station ..................................................................................................................... 18 West India Docks, Isle of Dogs ........................................................................................................................... 18 North London ............................................................................................................. 18 Highgate Cemetery, Highgate ............................................................................................................................ 18 3 Parliament Hill, Hampstead ............................................................................................................................... 18 Map ........................................................................................................................... 19 The Penny Green Victorian Mystery Series ................................................................. 20 Limelight ..................................................................................................................................................................... 20 The Rookery .............................................................................................................................................................. 20 The Maid’s Secret .................................................................................................................................................... 20 The Inventor ............................................................................................................................................................. 21 Curse of the Poppy ................................................................................................................................................. 21 The Bermondsey Poisoner .................................................................................................................................. 21 An Unwelcome Guest ............................................................................................................................................ 22 4 Central London Reading Room, The British Museum, Bloomsbury Penny, like many journalists at the time, carries out her research in the reading room. It’s located in the British Museum which was founded in the eighteenth century, the current building was constructed in 1854. The iconic circular reading room was part of the British Library within the museum and was in use for 140 years: from 1857 until 1997. During that time it was also used a filming location and has been referenced in many works of fiction. When the British Library moved to a new location in 1997, the reading room was restored and subsequently used for exhibition space but it has been closed since 2014. It’s been recently announced that it will reopen and display some of the museum’s permanent collections, but it’s not clear when that will be. Features in: the whole Penny Green series. Can you visit it? You can admire it from the outside when you visit the