Holborn and Bloomsbury
By Walter Besant and G. E. Mitton
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Walter Besant
Walter Besant (1836–1901) was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire and studied at King's College, London. He would later work in higher education at Royal College, Mauritius, where he taught mathematics. During this time, Besant also began his extensive writing career. In 1868 he published Studies in Early French Poetry followed by a fruitful collaboration with James Rice, which produced Ready-money Mortiboy (1872), and The Golden Butterfly(1876). Besant’s career spanned genres and mediums including fiction, non-fiction, plays and various collections.
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Holborn and Bloomsbury - Walter Besant
Walter Besant, G. E. Mitton
Holborn and Bloomsbury
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Table of Contents
THE FASCINATION OF LONDON HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY
IN THIS SERIES.
The Fascination of London
HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY
HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY
ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS.
LINCOLN'S INN. By W. J. Loftie.
CHANCERY LANE.
GRAY'S INN. By W. J. Loftie.
BOUNDARIES OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISHES.
St. Giles-in-the-Fields .
St. George the Martyr .
St. Andrew, Holborn.
St. George, Bloomsbury.
Hatton Garden, Saffron Hill .
INDEX
THE FASCINATION
OF LONDON
HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY
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IN THIS SERIES.
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Cloth, price 1s. 6d. net; leather, price 2s. net each.
THE STRAND DISTRICT.
By
Sir Walter Besant
and
G. E. Mitton
.
WESTMINSTER.
By
Sir Walter Besant
and
G. E. Mitton
.
HAMPSTEAD AND MARYLEBONE.
By
G. E. Mitton
. Edited by
Sir Walter Besant
.
CHELSEA.
By
G. E. Mitton
. Edited by
Sir Walter Besant
.
KENSINGTON.
By
G. E. Mitton
. Edited by
Sir Walter Besant
.
HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY.
By
Sir Walter Besant
and
G. E. Mitton
.
STAPLE INN, HOLBORN BARS
The Fascination of London HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY BY SIR WALTER BESANT AND G. E. MITTON
The Fascination of London
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HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY
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BY
SIR WALTER BESANT
AND
G. E. MITTON
LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
1903
PREFATORY NOTE
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A survey of London, a record of the greatest of all cities, that should preserve her history, her historical and literary associations, her mighty buildings, past and present, a book that should comprise all that Londoners love, all that they ought to know of their heritage from the past—this was the work on which Sir Walter Besant was engaged when he died.
As he himself said of it: This work fascinates me more than anything else I've ever done. Nothing at all like it has ever been attempted before. I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
Sir Walter's idea was that two of the volumes of his survey should contain a regular and systematic perambulation of London by different persons, so that the history of each parish should be complete in itself. This was a very original feature in the great scheme, and one in which he took the keenest interest. Enough has been done of this section to warrant its issue in the form originally intended, but in the meantime it is proposed to select some of the most interesting of the districts and publish them as a series of booklets, attractive alike to the local inhabitant and the student of London, because much of the interest and the history of London lie in these street associations.
The difficulty of finding a general title for the series was very great, for the title desired was one that would express concisely the undying charm of London—that is to say, the continuity of her past history with the present times. In streets and stones, in names and palaces, her history is written for those who can read it, and the object of the series is to bring forward these associations, and to make them plain. The solution of the difficulty was found in the words of the man who loved London and planned the great scheme. The work fascinated
him, and it was because of these associations that it did so. These links between past and present in themselves largely constitute The Fascination of London.
G. E. M.
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The district to be treated in this volume includes a good many parishes—namely, St. Giles-in-the-Fields; St. George, Bloomsbury; St. George the Martyr; St Andrew, Holborn; Hatton Garden, Saffron Hill; besides the two famous Inns of Court, Lincoln's and Gray's, and the remaining buildings of several Inns of Chancery, now diverted from their former uses. Nearly all the district is included in the new Metropolitan Borough of Holborn, which itself differs but little from the Parliamentary borough known as the Holborn Division of Finsbury. Part of St. Andrew's parish lies outside both of these, and is within the Liberties of the City. The transition from Holborn borough to the City will be noted in crossing the boundary. As it is proposed to mention the parishes in passing through them, but not to describe their exact limitations in the body of the book, the boundaries of the parishes are given concisely for reference on p. 100.
Kingsway, the new street from the Strand to Holborn, cuts through the selected district. It begins in a crescent, with one end near St. Clement's Church, and the other near Wellington Street. From the site of the Olympic Theatre it runs north, crossing High Holborn at Little Queen Street, and continuing northward through Southampton Row. A skeleton outline of its course is given on p. 28. This street runs roughly north and south throughout the district selected, and dividing it east and west is the great highway, which begins as New Oxford Street, becomes High Holborn, and continues as Holborn and Holborn Viaduct.
The tradition that Holborn is so named after a brook—the Old Bourne—which rose on the hill, and flowed in an easterly direction into the Fleet River, cannot be sustained by any evidence or any indications of the bed of a former stream. Stow speaks positively as to the existence of this stream, which, he says, had in his time long been stopped up. Now, the old streams of London have left traces either in the lanes which once formed their bed, as Marylebone Lane and Gardener's Lane, Westminster, or their courses, having been accurately known, have been handed on from one generation to another. We may therefore dismiss the supposed stream of the Old Bourne
as not proven. On the other hand, there have been found many springs and wells in various parts of Holborn, as under Furnival's Inn, which may have seemed to Stow proof enough of the tradition. The name of Holborn is probably derived from the bourne or brook in the Hollow
—i.e., the Fleet River, across which this great roadway ran. The way is marked in Aggas's map of the sixteenth century as a country road between fields, though, strangely enough, it is recorded that it was paved in 1417, a very ancient date. Malcolm in 1803 calls it an irregular long street, narrow and inconvenient, at the north end of Fleet Market, but winding from Shoe Lane up the hill westward.
Holborn Bars stood a little to the west of Brooke Street, and close by was Middle Row, an island of houses opposite the end of Gray's Inn Road, which formed a great impediment to the traffic. The Bars were the entrance to the City, and here a toll of a penny or twopence was exacted from non-freemen who entered the City with carts or coaches.
The George and Blue Boar stood on the south side of Holborn, opposite Red Lion Street, and it is said that it was here that