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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
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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alence of a hard 112 OLD AND NEW LONDON. The Thames. frost, we read of diversions on the Thames, some playing at football, and others shooting at marks. The courtiers from the palace at Whitehall mixed with the citizens, and tradition reports that Queen Elizabeth herself walked upon the ice. On the night of the 3rd of January following, however, it began to thaw, and on the 5th there was no ice to be seen on the river. In 1620 a great frost enabled the Londoners to carry on all manner of sports and trades upon the river. wonder of this present age and a great consternation to all the spectators. The rude cut beneath the title shows the Middlesex shore, taken from the centre of the river, from Arundel House to the eastern end of the Temple; giving a view of Essex Buildings with its ugly roundheaded arch, and the three groups of stairs belonging to Arundel House, Essex House, and the Temple. The street of booths holds out all sorts of signs, just like the houses in the Strand. There are men and boys
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• 312. FROST FAIR ON THE THAMES IN 1683. In a curious volume of London ballads and broadsides in the British Museum is one entitled* Great Britain's Wonder, or London's Admiration, being a true representation of a prodigious frost which began about the beginning of December, 1683, and continued till the fourth day of February following. It held on the Thames with such violence that men and beasts, coaches and carts, went as frequently there on as boats were wont to pass before. There was also (continues the writer) a street of booths built from the Temple to Southwark, where were sold all sorts of goods imaginable, namely, cloaths, plate, earthenware,meat, drink, brandy, tobacco, and a hundred sortsof comjnodities not here inserted : it being the making slides, skating, and sledging in all direc-tions ; some of the sledges are of the ordinary type, like the low brewers dray drawn by heavyhorses; some are more artistic, made up like gondolas; some are apparently genuine boats, with sails; in two places are

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