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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
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mer of each year the specimens of the windowgardening in the neighbourhood are exhibited here,and prizes are awarded to the successful competi-tors in this humble but painstaking horticulture. The old watchmans box under the Collegewall has disappeared, and his lanthorn long sincebeen extinguished. The street-keeper has beensupplanted by the helmeted policeman, in whosebelted tunic we trace no resemblance to the square Westminster School.) DEANS YARD. 481 and long-tailed skirts and chimney-pot hat of hisantecedent brother in 1832. If many of our old relics have disappeared,much of coarseness and rudeness of manners hasbeen swept away with them; and in the recollec-tion of an old site and comparing it with the That Deans Yard was the chief playground ofthe boys before they obtained their ten acres inVincent Square, is evident from a Declamation by Dean Vincent, dated 1800, and published in the Lusus Westmonasterienses. It shows, moreover,that at that time there were tall and umbrageous
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THIEVING LANE. (From a drawing by J. T. Smith, 1808.) present we feel that there has been a slow but wistchange in the habits, feelings, and manners of thepopulation; . . . but, as in the human con-stitution the too rapid or the too slow circulationwill be found equally detrimental to health, we canonly desire that the boon of progress may neverdis:urb the good which lies at the bottom of manyof our institutions, although much of the rubbishwhich has accumulated in and about them maywith advantage be got rid of.137—Vol. HI. elms, under the shade of which the boys couldplay, within the Abbey precincts. Has Kfles juxta nostris patet area hidis, U)morum((UC vetus proteglt umbra locum. I lie pueri, quolies Musk gravis interraptum,Haud indigiianti Pallade, pendet opus, Se fundunt apibus similes, quas vere CalymneNascenti multo pascit odora thymo : Tlic ludunt, volucrum ritu. • During the i)rogrcss of certain imp;ovcm;:nt3 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Westminster School. carried out in 1815,

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