Victorian London - Publications - History - The Queen's London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis, 1896

THE 
QUEEN'S LONDON
A PICTORIAL AND DESCRIPTIVE RECORD
OF THE
STREETS, BUILDINGS, PARKS AND SCENERY 
OF THE GREAT METROPOLIS
IN THE FIFTY-NINTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA

CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED
LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE
1896
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


TO HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
VICTORIA
QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN IRELAND
EMPRESS OF INDIA,
ETC. ETC.
THIS PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE 
CAPITAL OF EMPIRE IS,
BY HER MAJESTY'S PERMISSION,
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED


- The Victoria Embankment, from Waterloo Bridge

- The Houses of Parliament

- St. Stephen's Hall

- The Horse Guards

- St. Paul's Cathedral

- Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey

- The National Gallery, with St. Martin's Church

- The Customs House

- Lambeth Palace, with St. Mary's Church, from the Suspension Bridge

- Windsor Castle - Distant View

- The Natural History Museum, South Kensington

- The Royal Exchange

- The Treasury, Whitehall

- Pall Mall, looking East.

- The Stars and Garter, Richmond

- The Strand, looking West

- The Crystal Palace

- The Tower Bridge

- The Royal Albert Hall

- Richmond Park

- The Imperial Institute

- The Tower of London

- Yeomen of the Guard

- Greenwich Hospital

- Holloway Gaol

- The Reform Club - The Library

- The Old School, Harrow

- The Old Water Gate

- Eel Pie Island

- Interior of the Temple Church, looking East

- Holland House, Kensington - The South Front

- Ludgate Circus

- London Bridge, looking North-West

- Westminster Abbey - Edward the Confessor's Chapel, with the shrine

- Chelsea Hospital

- London University

- The Alexandra Palace

- Regent Street and Waterloo Place

- The Boat Race (1895), from Barnes Bridge

- St. George's Chapel, Windsor - The Choir

- Brompton Oratory

- Hatfield House- The South Front

- The Avenue, Hatfield Park

- Windsor Castle - the Lower Ward, with St. George's Chapel

- Skating on the Long Water

- The Charing Cross Hotel

- Cleopatra's Needle

- The Foreign and India Offices, from St. James's Park

- Hampstead Heath, from the flagstaff, looking West

- The Palm House, Kew Gardens

- The Rhododendron Walk, Kew Gardens

- Oxford Street, looking East

- Statue of Richard Coeur de Lion, Old Palace Yard, Westminster

- Interior of the Guildhall

- Hammersmith Bridge, from the South side

- Queen Victoria Street - Mansion House End

- Trafalgar Square

- Interior of the House of Lords

- Interior of the House of Commons

- The Hop Exchange, Southwark

- Hampton Court Palace, General View

- St. Paul's School, with the Old Red Cow, Hammersmith

- The Cascade, Virginia Water

- The Admiralty

- The Bank of England

- A Cell in Newgate Prison - The Galleries in Newgate

- Newgate Prison : The "Graveyard," looking towards the door leading to The Old Bailey

- View down the Thames from London Bridge

- View down the Thames from London Bridge

- Middlesex v. Surrey at Lord's (1895)

- Fountain Court, Temple

- Highgate Archway, looking northwards

- Bethlehem Hospital

- The West India Import Dock

- Headquarters of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade

- A Temperance Demonstration at the Crystal Palace

- Westminster Abbey - the Reredos

- Distant View of Eton College, from the Great Western Railway

- Piccadilly Circus

- Blackfriars Bridge

- University College

- The Museum, Kew Gardens, from the Palm House

- Dorchester House

- The Royal Kitchen, Windsor Castle

- The Angel, Islington

- Chestnut Avenue, Bushy Park

- The British Museum

- St. Paul's Cathedral - the Nave

- Knightsbridge, with the Barracks

- Twickenham Ferry

- The Marble Arch

- A political demonstration on the way to Hyde Park

- The Metropolitan Tabernacle

- Greenwich Observatory

- Wimbledon Common

- New Scotland Yard

- The Flower Walk, Regent's Park

- The Albert Memorial

- Carlton House Terrace

- St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell

- Seven Dials

- Derby Day at Epsom

- King's College

- The Pro-Cathedral, Kensington

- Devonshire House

- Richmond Lock and Footbridge

- Regent Street

- Sion House, Isleworth

- Looking down Cornhill

- The Royal Palace of Justice - The Great Hall

- Lincoln's Inn Fields

- The London School Board Offices

- Hampton Court Palace - The Lion Gates

- Hampton Court Palace - Fountain Court

- The Victoria Embankment, from Charing Cross Station

- Wesley's Chapel

- The Foundling Hospital

- Westbourne Park Chapel

- St. Katherine's Dock

- Claybury Asylum

- The Guildhall

- The Lake, St. James's Park

- London Bridge, looking North-East

- Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, Chingford

- Lambeth Palace - The Chapel - The Library

- Chapel Royal, Savoy

- The "George" Inn, Borough

- A meet of the Coaching Club

- In Victoria Park

- The Drive and Rotten Row, Hyde Park

- The Temple Church - The Rotunda

- Sir John Millais's House

- Euston Station

- Buccleuch House, Richmond

- Gray's Inn Square

- The Congress Hall, Clapton

- Kensington Palace

- Carshalton Church

- Russell Square

- St. Paul's Cathedral - The Choir and Reredos

- Thames Ditton

- New Bridge Street, Blackfriars

- The Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor, looking West

- The Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor, looking East

- The Green Park Arch, Wellington Place

- Kensington Town Hall and Public Library

- Guy's Hospital

- High Street, Epsom

- Newgate - the Central Courtyard

- Newgate - the Chapel

- The Royal Aquarium, Westminster

- Connaught Water, Epping Forest

- St. Albans Abbey, from the South West

- Trafalgar Square, looking down Whitehall

- Marlborough House

- The Military Pageant at the Royal Military Tournament, 1893

- The City of London School

- Strawberry Hill, Twickenham

- The United Service Club

- High Street, Hounslow

- Covent Garden Theatre

- Temple Bar

- St. George's Cathedral

- Defoe's House at Mitcham

- Whitehall, with the Home Office

- Smoking Room of the Carlton Club

- Harrow School - The Fourth Form Room

- Harrow School - The Chapel and Library

- The Times office, and western end of Queen Victoria Street

- The Thames and St. Paul's, from Bankside

- Albert Mansions

- South Kensington Museum - The Sculpture Hall

- The Quadrangle, St. Bartholomew's Hospital

- View from Richmond Hill

- The People's Palace

- The People's Palace - The Queen's Hall

- The "Worcester" Training Ship

- The Durdans, Epsom

- The Prison in the Lollards' Tower, Lambeth Palace

- Shaftesbury Avenue

- Holly Lodge, Kensington

- The Central Synagogue

- Twickenham Church

- Interior of the Royal Albert Hall

- In Kew Gardens

- Water-Lily House, Kew Gardens

- La Margeurite leaving Tilbury

- High Street, Watford

- St. Joseph's Retreat, from Waterlow Park, Highgate

- Regent Circus and Oxford Street, looking East

- Bow Street Police Court

- Windsor Castle - a near view of the Round Tower

- Christ's Hospital

- The Imperial Institute - The Entrance Hall

- Buckingham Palace, from St. James's Park

- The Throne Room, Buckingham Palace

- Wickham Court

- Byron's Elm, Harrow

- Cheapside, with Bow Church, looking West

- Leadenhall Market

- The Zoological Gardens - The Lion's House

- Scene in The Zoological Gardens

- Cycling at Herne Hill

- The Constitutional Club

- The Royal United Service Museum, with Whitehall

- Highgate Cemetery

- Addington Palace

- Middle Temple Hall

- Putney Bridge, from the Middlesex Bank

- The Royal College of Science, South Kensington

- Furnival's Inn

- St. Thomas's Hospital

- Tower of London - St. John's Chapel

- Tower of London - Site of the scaffold, with the Chapel of St. Peter

- Kneller Hall, Twickenham

- Interior of the Central Criminal Court

- High Street, Sutton

- Victoria Street, Westminster, with the Army and Navy Stores

- Bromley Palace

- Greenwich Hospital - The Painted Hall

- The College of Arms

- Waltham Cross

- Richmond Bridge

- Richmond Church

- St. George's Street (Ratcliff Highway)

- View up the river from Tower Bridge (High Level)

- Westminster Bridge Road, with Christ Church

- Burnham Beeches

- Thackeray's House, Palace Gardens

- In "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese"

- Dulwich College

- Moseley Weir

- Adelphi Terrace, with Garrick's House

- Westminster Abbey, from the North

- Nonsuch Park, near Cheam

- Union Chapel, Islington

- Burlington House

- Strand-on-the-Green

- A Board School Cookery Class

- A Board School Carpentry Class

- The Athenaeum Club

- Camden House, Chislehurst

- The Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

- Somerset House

- The New Public Record Office, Chancery Lane

- The Victoria Embankment, from Westminster Bridge

- The Mile End Road

- The Market Place, Kingston-on-Thames

- Waltham Abbey

- Merchant Taylors' School- The Great Hall

- Drury Lane Theatre Royal

- Claremont, Esher

- Kensal Green Cemetery

- St. Bartholomew's Hospital - The West Entrance

- Lyndhurst Road Chapel

- Kew Church

- Harrow School - The Speech House

- The Palace Theatre

- Paternoster Row

- Staircase in the Foreign Office; Entrance Hall of Sir Frederic Leighton's House

- In Euston Station

- Mill Hill School

- View from High Beech, looking West

- Interior of Frogmore Mausoleum

- Leicester Square

- At Madame Tussaud's

- Bethnal Green Museum

- The Oaks

- The Royal College of Surgeons

- The Monument

- Cassiobury House

- Bunyan's Tomb in Bunhill Fields

- The Clock Tower, St. Albans

- Dog Show at The Crystal Palace

- Holborn Viaduct, from Farringdon Street

- Harrow, from the school cricket-ground

- The Priory, North Bank (George Eliot's House)

- In the Exeter Hall Gymnasium

- The Royal Mint

- Covent Garden Market

- The Telegraph Instrument Galleries, General Post Office

- The Lord Mayor's Procession (1895), from Punch Office, in Fleet Street

- A London County Council Band in Battersea Park

- Hayes Place

- Windsor Castle - Queen Elizabeth's Gallery

- Windsor Castle - The State Dining Room

- Old Houses at Holborn Bars

- The Royal Horticultural Gardens, Chiswick

- The Lake, Dulwich Park

- Bridgewater House

- Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly

- Interior of Charing Cross Station

- Cannon Street, looking West

- Woolwich, from the river

- Fulham Palace

- Hatfield House- King James's Drawing-Room

- View from St. Paul's, looking North-East

- View from St. Paul's, looking North-West

- View from St. Paul's, looking South-West

- Central Court of the India Office

- Dr. Barnado's Homes at Barking Side

- Westminster Bridge

- The Elephant and Castle

- St. Pancras' Church

- Windsor Castle- The Prison Chamber

- Windsor Castle- Stairs of the Round Tower - The Great Wheel at Earl's Court

- Old Weavers' Houses at Bethnal Green

- Ladies Driving Competition at the Ranelagh Club

- The King's Head, Chigwell

- The Strand, with St. Mary's Church, looking East

- Olympia

- A Sale at Tattersall's

- Billingsgate Market

- Newgate Prison

- The Round Pond, Kensington Gardens

- Wentworth Street on Sunday morning

- The Catholic Apostolic Church, Gordon Square

- Morning Assembly at a Board School

- Carlyle House

- The British Museum Reading Room

- The Old Welsh Harp, Hendon

- Drawing Room Parade at Albany Barracks

- Primrose Hill

- The Royal Palace of Justice, with Temple Bar Memorial

- The Mansion House at early morning

- Ostrich Feathers at the Cutler Street Warehouses

- The Eton and Harrow Match at Lord's 1895- Luncheon interval

- The National Liberal Club and Whitehall Court

- Hyde Park Corner and Apsley House

- The City Temple

- Orleans House, Twickenham

- Lord Beaconsfield's Statue on Primrose Day, 1895

- Piccadilly, with the Green Park

- Westminster Abbey- The Nave, looking East

- Hampstead Heath- The Flagstaff, with approach to "Jack Straw's Castle"

- St. Martin's-le-Grand - General View of the Post Office Buildings

- Cycling in Battersea Park

- The Hotel Metropole and Northumberland Avenue

- Grosvenor House

- In Smithfield Meat Market

- St. Bartholomew's the Great

- Hall and staircase of Stafford House

- The Old Royal College of Music

- The New Royal College of Music - The Gateway, St. James's Palace

- Sloane Square

- Tower of London - Interior of St. Peter's Chapel

- Faraday's table in the theatre of the Royal Institution

- The Scottish Gathering at Stamford Bridge (1895)

- Library of the Royal Colonial Institute

- Columbia Market

- Cricket at Kensington Oval

- The Changing of the Guard, St. James's Palace

- The Tower of London - Traitors' Gate

- The Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street

- St. Saviours, Southwark

- Merchant Taylors' School

- Goldsmiths Hall prepared for a "Pyx Dinner"

- Goldsmiths' Hall- The Assay Office

- Staircase of the Grocers Hall - Mercers Hall Prepared for a Livery Meeting

- Chingford Old Church

- Football at the Crystal Palace

- Fleet Street, looking East

- Christs Hospital - The Dining Hall

- St. Clement Danes

- White Lodge, Richmond

- The Cattle Show, 1895

- Lord Strathnairn's Statue

- Westminster Hall

- St. Pancras Station - The Interior

- St. Pancras Station - The Exterior

- Hampton Court Palace, from the River