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
Amos, Adrian 165
Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel 138–41
Anne, Queen 146
Apsley House 26–31
Apsley, Lord 27
Arbuthnot, Harriet 28
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
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 (1969 film) 285
The Beatles 121
Bechstein, piano manufacturer 115
Becker, Boris 99
The Bee Gees, 121
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
British National Association of Spiritualists 132
Brown & Barrow, architects 139
Brown, Alexander 139
Brown, Ford Madox 170
Brown, Lancelot ‘Capability’ 16
Brudnizki Design Studio 72
Brunswick House, see LASSCO
Buckingham Palace 143
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
Cliveden 49
Coke, Edward 248
Collcutt, Thomas Edward 115
Collins, Wilkie 60
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
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 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
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
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
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 IV 27
Gershwin, George 178
The Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe) 287, 288
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
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
Hendrix, Jimi 121
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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 Museum 258–61
Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, 52–5
Royal Horticultural Society 248
Royal Institution of Great Britain 226–9
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 Thomas’ Hospital 212
Saint-Saëns, Camille 116
Sam Smith brewery 61
Sampras, Pete 99
Sargent, John Singer 39
Savoy Hotel 115
schools
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
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
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
Walsingham, Francis 239
Walt, Nicholas 170
War Horse (play) 105
Watson, Maud 99
Watt, James 200
Watts, George Frederic 39, 235
Welsh Church of Central London 132–5
Wertenbaker, Timberlake 107
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 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
Wyatt, Benjamin Dean 27
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, pub 58–61
Yeats, W.B. 60