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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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which we shall have more to say in a futurechapter. On our right, too, down to a compara-tively recent date, the character of the locality wasnot much better ; indeed, the whole of the neigh-bourhood which lay—and part of which still lies—between Clarendon Square and the Brill and St.Pancras Road, would answer to the description of 324 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (St. Pancras. what Charles Dickens, in his UncommercialTraveller/ calls a shy neighbourhood, aboundingin bird and birdcage shops, costermongers shops,old rag and bottle shops, donkeys, barrows, dirtyfowls, &:c., and with the inevitable gin-shop atevery corner. The very dogs of shy neighbour-hoods usually betray a slinking consciousness of being in poor circumstances, is one of the appro-priate remarks of Boz; and another is to thesame effect— Nothing in shy neighbourhoods per-plexes me more than the bad company which birdskeep. Foreign birds often get into good society,but British birds are inseparable from low asso-ciates.
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THE KOV.\L VETEKIN.VRY CGI.LEGE, 1S25 CHAPTER XXV.ST. TANCRAS. The revrend spire of ancient Pancras view,To ancient Pancras pay the revrence due ;Christs sacred altar there first Britain saw,And gazed, and worshippd with an holy awe.Whilst pitying Heaven diffused a saving ray.And heathen darkness changed to Christian day.—Anon. Biographical Sketch of St. Pancras—Churches bearing his Name—Corruption of the Name-The Neighbourhood of St. Pancras in FormerTimes—Population of the Parish—Ancient Manors—Desolate Condition of the Locality in the Si.xtcenth Century—Notices ot the Manorsin Domesday Book and Early Surveys-The Fleet River and its Occasional Floods-The Elephant and Castle Tavern—The Workliouse—The Vestry—Old St. Pancras Church and its Antiquarian Associations—Celebrated Persons interred in the Churchyard—Ned WardsWill—Father OLeary—Chattertons Visit to the Churchyard—Mary Wollstoncraft Godwin—Roman Catholic Burials—St. Giless Burial-ground and the

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