Index

1 London, see Apsley House

2 Temple Place, see Two Temple Place

3 St James’s Street, see Berry Bros & Rudd

12 Holland Road, see Leighton House Museum

21 Albemarle Street, see Royal Institution of Great Britain

48–49 Doughty Street, see Charles Dickens Museum

A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) 23, 60

A Trip to the Moon (1902 film) 295

Adam, Robert 15, 16, 27, 28, 90

Agassi, Andre 99

Airco, aircraft manufacturer 259

Aitchison, George 39

Albert Bridge 137

Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum 202–3

All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club 96–99

American Revolution 143, 244

Amos, Adrian 165

Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel 138–41

Anne, Queen 146

Apsley House 26–31

Apsley, Lord 27

Arbuthnot, Harriet 28

Arts Council 116, 262

Astaire, Fred 174, 184

Astor, William Waldorf 49–51

Attlee, Clement 248

Atwell, David 120

Augusta, Princess of Saxe-Gotha 52

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 film) 91

Avis, Joseph 146

Bacon, Nicholas 239, 240

Baden-Powell, Robert 299

Barenboim, Daniel 178

Barnardo, Dr Thomas John 217

Barry, Charles and Charles Edward 139

Bartoli, Marion 99

Battersea Park 136–7

Battle of Britain 260, 261

Battle of Britain (1969 film) 285

The Beatles 121

Bechstein, piano manufacturer 115

Becker, Boris 99

The Bee Gees, 121

HMS Belfast 278–81, 287

Bentley, John Francis 126, 130

Berlin, Irving 178

Bernstein, Sidney 119

Berry Bros & Rudd 80–5

Berry, George 80

Betjeman, Sir John 78, 94, 301

Bevis Marks Synagogue 146–9

Bibendum, restaurant 62–5

Birkett, Norman 248

Bismark, Otto von 50

The Blackfriar, pub 76–9

Blake, Peter 72

Blitz 51, 92, 143, 149, 152, 182, 218, 240, 246, 288

Boleyn, Anne 50

Bolton, Prior 143

Bonaparte, Joseph 28

Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon 82

Bonaparte, Napoléon 82

Bonar Law, Andrew 182

Borg, Björn 99

Boswell, James 287

Boulton & Watt, engineers 222

Bourne, Katherine 80

Bow Bells 150–1, 153

British National Association of Spiritualists 132

Britten, Benjamin 116, 178

Brown & Barrow, architects 139

Brown, Alexander 139

Brown, Ford Madox 170

Brown, Lancelot ‘Capability’ 16

Brudnizki Design Studio 72

Brummel, Beau 80, 85, 173

Brunswick House, see LASSCO

Buckingham Palace 143

Burton, Decimus 52, 254

Byron, Lord 80, 173, 187

Callcott, Frederick 77

Calvert, Barbara 244

Caruso, Enrico 116

Casals, Pablo 116

Cash, Pat 99

Catherine of Aragon 78

Caulfield, Patrick 72

Cavendish, Henry 227

Cecil, William, Baron Burghley 239, 240

Charles Dickens Museum 20–5

Charles II 58

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 78

Charles XIV, of Sweden 28

Charles, Prince of Wales 107, 148

Charlotte Percy, Duchess of Northumberland 17

Charlotte, Queen 54–5

Charterhouse 204–11

Chartist riots 82

The Cheesegrater (122 Leadenhall Street) 288

Chelsea Bridge 137

Chelsea Hospital 248

Chukoshi-Mon Japanese Gateway, Kew 54

Churchill War Rooms 266–71

Churchill, Winston 267–71

cinemas

Crofton Park Picture Palace 89

Gate Cinema 102–3

Regent Street 100–1

City Hall 287

City of London 71, 144, 146, 153, 243

Claudius, Roman Emperor 15

Clement V, Pope 250

Cleopatra’s Needle 8, 10

Cliveden 49

Coke, Edward 248

Collcutt, Thomas Edward 115

Collins, Wilkie 60

Columbus, Christopher 50, 245

Conan Doyle, Arthur 60

Connick Jnr, Harry 178

Connors, Jimmy 99

Conran, Sir Terence 65

Cooke, Robert 68

Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Lord Shaftesbury 217

Cooper, Jacqueline 68

Cooper, Jane 287

Corbin, Chris 75

Cornelissen, Louis 169

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille 39

Courtauld, Stephen and Virginia 32–7

Cranfield, Thomas 217

Crofton Park Picture Palace 89

Cromwell, Oliver 146

Cubitt, William 296

D.H. Evans 132

da Costa, Benjamin Mendes 149

Dartmouth, Lady 78

Davy, Humphry, 227, 228

de Grey, Reginald 239

De Havilland, aircraft manufacturer 259

De Lacy, Henry 232

de Silva, Diego Guzmán 239

Debenhams 116

Deleysia, Alice 72

Derry & Toms (shop) 190

Diana, Princess of Wales 184

Dickens, Charles 20–5, 60, 100, 222, 288

Dictionary (Johnson) 58

Dissolution of the Monasteries 16, 143, 205

Donne, John 235

Downing Street 267–8

Drake, Francis 244

Dudley, John, Duke of Northumberland 17

Dumas, Alexandre 49

Dunkirk (1958 film) 285

Ealing Studios 34

Earle, John 94

Edward I 239

Edward II 241, 252

Edward IV 32

Edward VI 17

Edward VII 245

Eisenhower, Dwight D. 174

Eliot, T.S. 94

Elizabeth I 206, 239, 240, 244

Elizabeth II 248

Ellington, Duke 184

Eltham Palace 32–7

Emin, Tracey 72

English Civil War 244

English Heritage 37, 66, 91, 103, 113

Espinasse, François 62

Evans, Captain Thomas Carey 134

Evans, Dan Harries 132

Faraday, Michael 227, 228, 229

Farrell, Terry 72, 228

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner 103

Federer, Roger 99

Ferdinand VII of Spain 28

Fetherstonhaugh, Maria 299

First World War 116, 143, 182, 260, 261

Fisher, St John 130

Fleet Street 58, 60, 61, 243, 246

Fleet, River 61, 78

Fleming, Alexander 203

Fletcher, Charlie 288

Food Reform Society 132

Foster, Sir Norman 287

Fox, Samuel 182

Franklin, Benjamin 143

Fraser and Chalmers, engineers 195, 196

Freidrich Wilhelm, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 164

Fuller-Clark, Herbert 77

Gad’s Hill Place 21, 23, 24

Gala Bingo Club 118–23

Gallati, Mario 75

Gandhi, Mahatma 248

Gate Cinema 102–3

Geffery, Sir Robert 273

Geffrye Museum 272–7

Geoffrey de Mandeville 254

George II 54

George III 52, 54, 173

George IV 27

Gershwin, George 178

The Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe) 287, 288

Giandellini, Abel 72, 75

Gilardoni Fils et Cie 62

Gill, A.A. 75

Gill, Eric 130

Gladstone, William 173, 182, 236

Glaziers’ Company 255

Globe Theatre 107

Goddard, Lord Rayner 248

Godfrey, Walter and Emil 254

Goldsmith, Oliver 60

Gore, Spencer 99

Grahame-White, Claude 259

Grainger, Percy 116

Grand Junction Water Works Company 220

Grant, Cary 174

Great Expectations (Dickens) 23

Great Fire of London 58, 143, 150, 151, 244, 248, 252, 287

Greater London Council (GLC) 113, 137

Greene, Graham 85

Grenville, George 248

Guildford Cathedral 241, 245

Gwynne & Co., pump-makers 50

Hall, Peter 106

Hamilton, Lord Claud 139

Hamlyn, Paul 65

Hancock, Ralph 190

Hancock, William 103

Handel, Georg Frederic 252

Handley Page, aircraft manufacturer 259

Hardwick, Philip 235, 236

Hendrix, Jimi 121

Henry II 250, 255

Henry III 255

Henry VI 235

Henry VIII 16, 78, 85, 130, 205, 235, 241, 243

Hepple, Norman 235

Hever Castle 49

Hindu temple, see Shri Sanatan Hindu Mandir

Hirst, Damien 72, 170

Hitch, Nathaniel 77

Hogarth, Catherine 23

Holland, Frank 291

Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn 238–41

Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn 232–7

Honourable Society of the Inner Temple 244, 246–9

Honourable Society of the Middle Temple 50, 242–5

Hooke, Dr Robert 287

Hooker, Richard 252

Hopkinson, Simon 65

Horniman Museum 262–5

Horniman, Frederick John 262

Horowitz, Vladimir 178

hospitals

Chelsea 248

Normansfield 110–13

St Bartholomew’s 207

St Mary’s 203

St Thomas’ 212

University College Hospital 214

Houghton, Prior John 205

Houston, General Sam 85

Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk 206

Howard, Catherine 16

Howard, Charles, Earl of Nottingham 239

Imperial War Museum 281

Inns of Court 230–55

Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn 238–41

Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn 232–7

Honourable Society of the Inner Temple 246–9

Honourable Society of the Middle Temple 50, 242–5

Ironmongers’ Company 273, 274

Isabella Plantation 11

The Ivy, restaurant 72–5

Jagger, Mick 184

James I 243

James II 58

James Smith & Sons 180–3

Jarman, Derek 103

Jeffreys, George 252

Joel, Billy 178

John Lobb Ltd 184–9

John, King 250

John, Elton 90

Johnson, Samuel 58–60

Jones, Horace 71

Kempton Steam Museum 194–7

Kew Bridge 291

Kew Bridge Steam Museum, see London Museum of Water and Steam

Kew Palace and The Royal Botanical Gardens 52–5

King, Jeremy 75

Kingston-upon-Thames 295

Kissin, Evgeny 178

Knights Hospitaller 243, 248

Knights Templar 243, 248

Komisarjevsky, Theodore 119

Krall, Diana 178

Kvitová, Petra 99

L. Cornelissen & Son 168–71

L. Manze 66–9

La Cage aux Folles (1978 film) 103

Lady Jane Grey 17

Lang, Lang 178

Langdon Down, John Haydon 111, 113

Lasdun, Denys 105

LASSCO Brunswick House 162–7

Lee, River 198

Legend (2015 film) 90

Leighton House Museum 38–41

Leighton, Lord Frederic 39–41

Lely, Sir Peter

Lewis Leathers, motorcycle clothing 218

Lewis, Jerry Lee 121

Lewis, Owen 132

Leybourne, George (Champagne Charlie) 92

Lister, Joseph 214

Liverpool Street station 139

Lloyd George, David 134

Lloyd’s Register Building 115

Lobb, John 184, 187

London Central Markets, see Smithfield Meat Market

London City Mission 217

London County Council 92, 218, 246, 274

London Eye 107

London Fire Brigade 282

London Museum of Water & Steam 220–5

London South Western Railway 164

London Tornado (1091) 150

London, Chatham and Dover Railway 77

Long, M.J. 72

Louis XVIII of France 28

Lovell, Sir Thomas 232

Machiavelli, Niccolò 50

Magna Carta 250

Mahabharata 155

Manze, Michele 68

Markfield Beam Engine Museum 198–201

Marshal, William 250, 254

Marshall Hall, Edward 248

Marshalsea Debtors Prison 23

Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens) 288

Masonic Temple at Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel 138–41

Massey Shaw 282–5

Massey, Cecil 119

Maufe, Edward 241, 245

Mayhew, Henry 66

McCulloch, Joseph 153

McEnroe, John 99

McKintosh, Peter 107

Melba, Nellie 116

Melbourne, Lord 80

Méliès, Georges 295

Metchnikoff, Élie 203

Metropolis Water Act (1852), 195, 220

Metropolitan Water Board 195, 220

Michelin 62–5

Mill House 299

Millais, John Everett 39

Mills Novelty Company of Chicago 292

Molyneux, Emery 245

Montefiore, Sir Moses 148

Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard 174

Monument 286–9

More, Thomas 130, 232

Muppets Most Wanted (2014 film) 90

Murnau, F.W. 295

Museum of Learning Disability 113

Musical Museum 290–5

Nairn, Ian 132

Nanak, Guru 155

National Health Service 112

National Theatre 104–9

Navratilova, Martina 99

Nehru, Jawaharlal 248

Nicholas I, of Russia 28

Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens) 23

Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Order 137

Normansfield Theatre 110–13

North, Edward 206, 210

North, Marianne 111

Nosferatu (1922 film) 295

Novotná, Jana 99

Olav V, of Norway 153

Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret 212–15

Oliver Twist (Dickens) 23

Olivier, Laurence 106, 174

Onassis, Aristotle and Jacqueline 184

Orbison, Roy 121

Our Country’s Good (play) 107

Oxford University 203

Paget, Paul 32

pagoda

Battersea Park 136–7

Kew 54

Palace Theatre 115

Palm House, Kew 52–4

Palmerston, Lord 85

Paolozzi, Eduardo 72

Peace Pagoda, Battersea Park 136–7

Pears, Peter 116

Pearson, John Loughborough 50

Peel, Sir Robert 80

Peers, Sir Charles 37

Percy, Hnery, 9th Duke of Northumberland

Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 148, 152

Phoenix Theatre 119

Pickering Place 82, 85

Pitt, Brad 90

Pitt the Younger, William 236

Polly (parrot) 61

Poole, Henry 77

Pope, Alexander 288

Porter, Cole 178

Prescott, Sir William 195

Pryce, Merlin 203

pubs

The Blackfriar 76–9

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese 58–61

Rachmaninoff, Sergei 178

Ragged School Museum 216–19

Rahere, Prior 143

Raleigh, Walter 245

Ramayana 155

Redford, Robert 90

Reformation 143, 243

Regent Street Cinema 100–1

Regent’s Canal 217

Renshaw, William 99

restaurants

Bibendum 62–5

L. Manze 66–9

The Ivy 72–5

Rich, Sir Richard 143

Rivoli Ballroom 88–91

Robert de Ros 254

Rolán, Alfredo 144

The Rolling Stones 121

Ronalds, Tim 100

Roof Gardens in Kensington 190–1

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 270

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 170

Royal Academy 41

Royal Air Force 144, 259–61

Royal Air Force Museum 258–61

Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, 52–5

Royal Horticultural Society 248

Royal Institution of Great Britain 226–9

Royal Navy 146, 278–81

Royal Opera House 34

Royal Society 287

Ruddigore (Gilbert and Sullivan) 111

Russell, Raymond 212

St Bartholomew’s Hospital 207

St Bride’s Fleet Street 146

St James’s Park 267

St James’s, Piccadilly 146

St Mary-le-Bow 150–3

St Mary’s Hospital 203

St Pancras Renaissance Hotel 6–9

St Paul’s Cathedral 46, 284

St Thomas’ Hospital 212

Saint-Saëns, Camille 116

Sam Smith brewery 61

Sampras, Pete 99

Sargent, John Singer 39

Savoy Hotel 115

schools

Charterhouse 206–7, 210

Ragged School 216–19

Schwartzkopf, Elizabeth 116

Sebastiane (1976 film) 103

Second World War 178, 182, 246, 260, 267–71, 278, 282, 288

Seeley, John 32

Segovia, Andrés 116

Seth, Vikram 115

Seymour Jane 16

Seymour, Edward, Duke of Somerset 16–17

Shakespeare, William 50, 105, 239, 244

The Shard 215

shops

D.H. Evans 132

Debenhams 116

Derry & Toms 190

James Smith & Sons 180–3

John Lobb Ltd 184–9

L. Cornelissen & Son 168–71

LASSCO 162–7

Truefitt & Hill 172–5

Steinway & Sons 176–9

Shri Sanatan Hindu Mandir, Wembley 154–9

Shri Vallabh Nidhi UK 156

Shrimad Bhagvatam 155

Sickert, Walter 169

Sinatra, Frank 121, 174, 184

Smirke, Sydney 254

Smith & Nephew, medical products 51

Smith, Captain John 153

Smithfield Meat Market 70–1

Socrates 15

South Bank 107

Southwark Cathedral 215

Spanish Armada 239, 240

Spy Game (2001 film) 90

St Bartholomew the Great 142–5

stations

Liverpool Street 139

London Bridge 212

St Pancras International 8

Victoria 126

Wimbledon 96

steam engines

Kempton Steam Museum 194–7

Markfield Beam Engine Museum 198–201

London Museum of Water & Steam 220–5

Steinway & Sons 176–9

Stephenson, Neal 288

Stilgoe, Henry 195

Stoneheart (Fletcher) 288

Strand 243

Strawberry Hill House 42–7

Sussex, Duke of 85

Sutherland, Joan 116

Sutton, Thomas 206

Syon Abbey 16

Syon House 14–19

Tate Modern 107

Temperate House, Kew 54

Temple Church 250–5

Teresa, Mother 155

Texan Embassy 85

Thatcher, Margaret 236

The Castle of Otranto (Walpole) 45

The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare) 239

The Haunted Man (Dickens) 100

The Pickwick Papers (Dickens) 23

The Three Musketeers (Dumas) 49

The Vicar of Wakefield (Goldsmith) 60

The Wasteland (Eliot) 94

Thames, River 78, 164, 195, 220, 244, 248, 282, 284, 285, 287, 291

Thames Water 196

theatres

Globe Theatre 107

National Theatre 104–9

Phoenix 119

Regal, Kingston-upon-Thames 295

Royal Opera House 34

Wilton’s Music Hall 92–5

Thomas à Becket 241

Tintoretto (painter) 39

RMS Titanic 177

Tomlin, Leonard 90

Tooting Granada, see Gala Bingo Club

Tower 42 288

Tower Bridge 287

Townsend, Charles Harrison 262

Travers, Walter 252

Truefitt & Hill 172–5

Truefitt, William Francis 172

Truro Cathedral 50

Turner, Richard 52

Turner, Tina 90

Twain, Mark 60

Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) 244

Two Temple Place 48–51

University College Hospital 214

University of Westminster 100

Van Linge, Abraham and Bernard 236

Vaughan, Cardinal Herbert 126

Victoria Embankment 8, 50, 246, 248

Victoria, Queen 17, 55, 184, 246

HMS Victory 278

Vincent, Gene 121

Voltaire 50

Vulliamy, Louis 229

Walker, Andrew 217

The Walkie-Talkie (20 Fenchurch Street) 288

Wallis, Barnes 260

Walpole Horace 43, 45

Walpole, Robert 45, 236

Walsingham, Francis 239

Walt, Nicholas 170

Walter de Mauny 205, 210

War Horse (play) 105

Watson, Maud 99

Watt, James 200

Watts, George Frederic 39, 235

Webb, Sir Aston 143, 144

Wellington, Duke 27–8, 173

Welsh Church of Central London 132–5

Wertenbaker, Timberlake 107

Westminster Abbey 126, 206

Westminster Cathedral 126–31

Whistler, Rex 169

Whitechapel Art Gallery 262

Whitechapel Bell Foundry 152

Whittington, Dick 150

Wigmore Hall 114–17

Wilde, Oscar 173

Wilton, John 92

Wilton’s Music Hall 92–5

Wimbledon Common 296, 299

Wimbledon Windmill 296–299

Wimbledon, All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club 96–99

Wodehouse, P.G. 60

Wood Brothers, engineers 198

Worthington, Hubert 248

Wren, Sir Christopher 146, 150, 152, 210, 252, 287

Wright, Herbert 66

Wriothelsey, Henry, Earl of Southampton 239

Wurlitzer 121, 290–1, 295

Wyatt, Benjamin Dean 27

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, pub 58–61

Yeats, W.B. 60