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East London

Chapter 15: INDEX
By Walter Besant
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A detailed, illustrated survey of East London that combines geography, history and social observation to trace the area's transformation from marshes and villages into a dense industrial and residential district. It examines river and dock life, the variety of trades and factories, the urban poor including the houseless and immigrant communities, and everyday street culture such as pastimes, music-halls, and gambling. Separate chapters consider physical features like the old wall and riverside, the lives of women workers, charitable institutions and reform efforts, and nostalgic remnants of the countryside, producing a layered portrait of urban growth, labor, and civic response.

INDEX

  • Abney, Lady, 274
  • Abney, Sir Thomas, 274
  • Aguilar, Grace, 276
  • Aikin, Dr., 275
  • Aliens in London, 187
  • Anarchists, 206
  • Appeals for day in country, 307
  • August holiday, 303
  • Bad building, bribery of inspectors, 220
  • Bancroft almshouses, 341
  • Barbauld, Mrs., 275
  • Barking, 104, 111
  • Barnardo’s homes, 339
  • Barrack Life, 223, 224;
    • and Salvation Army, 224
  • Beating the bounds, 60
  • Beds hired out, 212
  • Bethnal Green crowded district, 221
  • Bicycle round London, 310
  • Billingsgate, 52, 54, 55
  • Bishop’s Manor, 4;
    • Palace, 7
  • Blackwall Basin, 95
  • Booth, General, 225
  • Boundaries of East London, 4
  • Bow Creek, 99
  • Bradwell, 109
  • Breathing places, 302
  • Bridge, first London, 53
  • Casual ward, stupidity of, 249
  • Census, Religious, 37
  • Centenarian, The, 201
  • Chapels on the wall, 110
  • Chapels on bridges and walls, 110
  • Charity Organisation Society, 343
  • Charter House, 280
  • Chaucer, 47, 55
  • Children’s Day in country, 307
  • Chinese in London, 204
  • Church of England, 331
  • City, 257
  • Clapton, 267
  • Club of factory girls, 142;
    • of the baser sort, 315
  • Colet, Dean, 7
  • Continuation Schools, 333
  • Coopers’ Company, 82
  • Cromwell, Major, 273
  • Cromwell, Oliver, 271
  • Crowded part of Bethnal Green, 221
  • Custom House, 55
  • Dagenham, 111;
    • white-bait dinner, 111
  • Dancing, none in East London, 313
  • Day in country for children, 307
  • Defoe, 47, 274
  • Discharged prisoners, 241
  • Disraeli, Benjamin, 275;
  • Docks, St. Katherine, 62;
    • London, 68;
    • West India, 95;
    • Blackwall, 95;
    • Millwall, 95;
    • attractions for boys, 96
  • Dogs, Isle of, 91
  • Drury Lane, Barracks in, 222
  • Dutch in Spitalfields, 192;
  • East End Parks, 304
  • East Ham, 7, 213
  • East London, history mostly a blank, 3;
    • boundaries of, 4;
    • nature of ground, 4;
    • collection of villages, 8;
    • no center, 8;
    • not a city, 8;
    • no newspapers, 8;
    • no people of fashion, 8;
    • filled with working class, 8;
    • population of, 8;
    • no hotels, 9;
    • New Zealander in, 9;
    • no restaurants, 9;
    • rapid rise, 10;
    • a manufacturing city, 10;
    • not a trading city, 10;
    • resembles Old London, 10;
    • no book shops, 13;
    • no literary power, 14;
    • no garrison, 14;
    • no recruiting, 14;
    • monotony, 15;
    • meanness, 15;
    • streets all alike, 15;
    • no old buildings, 16;
    • an unlovely city, 16;
    • fine roads, 17;
    • life not monotonous, 16, 17;
    • city of many crafts, 21;
    • distribution of trades, 22;
    • factories in, 23;
    • proportion of professions to crafts, 24;
    • the curse of labor, 27;
    • division of labor, 28;
    • demand for skilled labor, 29;
    • wages in, 30;
    • sweating, 30;
    • co-operative labor, 33;
    • an experiment, 33;
    • not a slum, 38;
    • a hive of workers, 116;
    • Huxley on, 127;
    • ministering ladies, 128;
    • fringe of, 255;
    • Matthew Arnold on, 358
  • Easter Monday, 290, 291, 295
  • Eighteenth century, 325
  • Emigrés, 189
  • Epping Forest, 256
  • Epping Hunt, 291, 301
  • Excursion trains, 303
  • Excursion Dock, 78;
    • escape of a man, 78
  • Factory girl, Chapter V.
  • Fairy lights, 239
  • Fight near Tower, 326
  • Fleetwood, Cromwell’s son-in-law, 271
  • Flower Girls’ Society, 342
  • Foreshore, rescue of, 110
  • Fraternities, 337
  • French Revolution, 188
  • French in Spitalfields, 188
  • Fringe of East London, 255
  • Future—the man who looks forward, 56
  • Gambling, Chinese, 205
  • Gardens in London, 304
  • George’s, St., in the East, 72, 73
  • German clerks, 191;
  • Ground, lie of, 4
  • Hackney churchyard, 263;
    • Old Town, 263;
    • 18th-century houses, 264;
    • Barber’s barn, 272;
    • Darnley, 272;
    • Captain Woodcock, 273;
    • Major Cromwell, 273;
    • Hartopp, Sir John, 274;
    • John Howard, 276;
    • André, 277;
    • Princess Elizabeth, 279;
    • Sir Walter Raleigh, 279;
    • Sir Thomas More, 279;
    • Thomas Sutton, 280;
    • John Ward, 281;
    • Lucas, 281
  • Ham, West, 7
  • Hampstead Heath, 292;
    • on Easter Monday, 295
  • Hangman’s Acre, 79
  • Heckford, Dr., 85, 86
  • Helping Hand, the, Chapter XII.;
    • history of, 319;
    • and the beggar, 320;
    • and St. Martin, 321;
    • new developments, 321
  • Henry, Matthew, 275
  • Hewling, Benjamin, 273
  • Holidays, 289
  • Homerton, High Street, 267
  • Hopping, 308
  • Hospitals, 337
  • Housing of the people, 212;
    • and London County Council, 225
  • Huguenots in London, 188, 192
  • Hunting rights, 7
  • Huxley on East London, 127
  • Idlers on London Bridge, 42
  • Immigration, 190
  • Increase of population, 213
  • Industrial villages, 225
  • Irish colony, 36
  • Isle of Dogs, 91;
    • origin of name, 92
  • Italians, 191, 203
  • Jack the Painter, 283
  • Jay, Osborne, the Rev., 329
  • Jewish quarter, 193
  • Jews, alleged superiority, 194;
    • trained intellect, 194;
    • unpopularity of, 195;
    • Sunday morning with, 196;
    • salesmen, 196;
    • physical degeneration, 199;
    • oriental note, 200;
    • the, old man, 201;
    • the Synagogue, 202
  • Journalism and the gaol bird, 242
  • Judenhetze, 195
  • Key of the street, 155
  • Key, price of the, 211
  • Laboratories at People’s Palace, 334
  • Labor aristocracy, 119
  • Ladies in East London, 128
  • Lads in the country, 307
  • Lawlessness in 18th century, 325
  • Lea River, 7
  • Libraries, free, 338
  • Liz, the baby, 119
  • London Street, 119, 120;
    • home, 120;
    • furniture of home, 120;
    • hardening the baby, 122;
    • parents of, 122;
    • food of, 121, 122, 123;
    • beer, 123;
    • the school, 124;
    • washing of, 124;
    • leaves school, 127;
    • forgets her teaching, 127;
    • appearance of, 128;
    • character of, 129;
    • ignorance of, 129, 130;
    • conversation and ideas, 130;
    • interests of place, 130;
    • sailor cousin, 133;
    • Christmas feast, 133;
    • goes to work, 134;
    • in a jam factory, 135;
    • goes a-hopping, 136;
    • a day at factory, 137;
    • breakfast, 137;
    • dinner, 137, 138;
    • on strike, 141;
    • independence of, 143;
    • ladies’ club, 143;
    • bank holiday, 144;
    • at seventeen, 147;
    • on Sunday, 147;
    • her sweetheart, 148;
    • marriage of, 150;
    • a wife and a mother, 151
  • London, the old families, 34;
    • devours her children, 34;
    • vanishing of old families of, 35;
    • influx of new blood, 36;
    • the port of, 41, 42;
    • docks, 68;
    • street, 119, 120;
    • a city of refuge, 187;
    • and the alien, 187,
    • County Council, 225;
    • School Board, 332
  • Long hours of idleness, 289
  • Lord Mayor’s fund, 343
  • Lowe, Bob, 141
  • Lucas, 281
  • Man, two varieties of, 56
  • Manor of Bishop of London, 4
  • Match tax, 141
  • May-day, 290
  • Medland Hall, 248
  • M.A.B.Y.S., 337
  • Memories of the past, Chapter X.
  • Millwall Dock, 95
  • More, Sir Thomas, 7, 279, 280
  • Morley, Samuel, 276
  • Music halls, 322
  • Nantes, Edict of, 188
  • New docker, the, 52
  • Okey, John, 271
  • Opium den, 205
  • Organized robbery, 48
  • Osborne, Jay, the Rev., 329;
    • work of, 330;
    • the boxing class, 330;
    • the doss-house, 331
  • Overcrowding, 213, 214;
    • a million affected, 218;
    • case of A. B., 218;
    • vitiation of air, 217
  • Palace of bishop, 7
  • Palatines, the, 188, 278
  • Parish work, 327;
    • unpaid assistants, 328
  • Past, the man who loves the, 54
  • People, housing of, 221
  • People’s Palace, 297, 312, 313, 334
  • Pepys, 91
  • Persian scholar in East London, 204
  • Peter, St., ad Vincula, 60
  • Polish Jews, 192
  • Polytechnics, 333
  • Poor, generosity of, 121
  • Popular recreation ground, 304
  • Population of East London, 8;
    • proportion of those born, 36;
    • rapid increase, 213
  • Port of Billingsgate, ancient, 52
  • Port of London, A.D. 1400, 46;
    • increase of trade, 48;
    • Riverside people, 48;
    • A.D. 1700, 48;
    • lightermen formerly organized plunderers, 51
  • Prisoners, wreck of manhood, 351;
    • welcomed
    • in the Salvation Army, 247, 353
  • Prisons, 352, 353, 357
  • Raines Charity, 68, 71
  • Ratcliffe, 81;
    • highway, 71;
    • stairs, 81, 85;
    • cross, 82;
    • shipwrights’ company, 82;
    • the Italian ghost, 87
  • Refuge, the city of, 187
  • Religion, indifference, not hatred, 37
  • Rent, increase of, 211
  • Rescue of Foreshore, 110
  • Revolution, French, 181
  • River Lea, 309
  • Riverside, 48
  • Riverwall, 103, 104, 105, 107, 109, 112
  • Rowe, Owen, 271
  • St. Austin’s Church, 192
  • St. Katharine’s by the Tower, 65;
    • dock, 62;
    • liberty of, 65;
    • destruction of, 66;
    • Regent’s Park, 66
  • Salvation Army barracks, 224;
    • shelters of the, 248;
    • the farm, 353;
    • social work, 350;
    • lodging houses, 350;
    • work shops, 350;
    • prisoners, 247, 353;
    • does it pay? 354;
    • the modern friars, 357;
    • a company of self-denying workers, 357
  • Sandwich man, the, 240
  • Scholarships, 334;
    • possibilities of, 335
  • School children, 332;
    • humanizing influence of, 332
  • Settlement, the, and lads, 307;
  • Shacklewell Green, 280;
    • and Sir Thomas More, 280;
    • Shadwell, 79
  • Shakspere, 47
  • Shopkeepers, no amusement for the smaller sort, 311
  • Shipwrights’ Company, 82
  • Sick, care of, 337
  • Slums, 323;
    • exaggeration of novelists, 324
  • Smith, Dr. William, 274
  • South London, barracks in, 222
  • Spitalfields and French, 188
  • Sports and Pastimes, Chapter XI.;
    • in the street, 310
  • Stepney, 7
  • Stoke Newington, Dr. Aikin, 275;
    • Mrs. Barbauld, 275;
    • Church Street, 269;
    • Thomas Day, 276;
    • Defoe, 274;
    • Isaac Disraeli, 275;
    • Fleetwood House, 273;
    • nonconformity in, 270;
    • Puritan leaders in, 271;
    • John Okey, 271;
    • Palatines, 278;
    • E. Allan Poe, 277;
    • Owen Rowe, 271
  • Stow, 59, 67
  • Stratford Langthorne, 111
  • Strype, 67
  • Submerged, of all classes, 229;
    • where found, 230;
    • of the eighteenth century, 232;
    • inoffensive, 233;
    • causes of wreck, 233;
    • in police court, 234;
    • the case of A. A., 237;
    • in the Sixpenny Hotel, 238;
    • in Oxford Street, 239;
    • of various trades, 240;
    • the odd job, 241;
    • pennyworths, 241;
    • the sandwich man, 244;
    • ten thousand of them, 251;
    • a lower depth still, 250
  • Suburban life changing, 261;
    • destruction of city social life, 257;
    • dullness of, 258;
    • clubs and amusements, 261;
    • awakening of society, 261;
    • theatres in, 261
  • Suburbs, growth of, 67
  • Sunday lectures, 339
  • Sutton, Thomas, 280
  • Swedish Church, 73
  • Technical Education Board, 333
  • The lad of the street, 156;
    • at school, 159;
    • leaves school, 160;
    • prospects, 160;
    • what he knows, 161;
    • his temptations, 162;
    • the barges left in the mud, 165;
    • his pair of hands, 165;
    • city boys, 166;
    • railway for, 166;
    • factories for, 167;
    • van and horse, 167;
    • beer boy, 167;
    • meals, 168;
    • porter’s work, 168;
    • degeneration of, 171;
    • long evenings, 171;
    • boys’ clubs, 172;
    • classes, 172;
    • music halls, 173, 181;
    • mimicry of, 174;
    • casual hand, 177;
    • street amusements, 177;
    • at Epsom, 177;
    • Hooligans, 177;
    • street fights, 177;
    • the Reformatory, 178;
    • gamblers, 178;
    • reading, 181;
    • keeps company, 181;
    • ordeal of street, 182;
    • loafers, 183
  • Theatre regarded with horror, 258
  • Thousands driven out homeless, 222
  • Tower Hill, 55, 56;
  • Toynbee Hall, lectures at, 311
  • Tramps and rogues, 250
  • Trinity almshouses, 341
  • Turpin, Dick, 282
  • Wall by river, 103
  • Wapping, school and churchyard, 73, 74;
    • old stairs, 77;
    • recreation ground, 304
  • Ward, John, 281
  • Wat Tyler, 7
  • Watts, Dr. Isaac, 268, 273
  • West Ham, 7, 214
  • West India Dock Road, 203
  • West India Docks, 95
  • Whit Monday, 298
  • Whitechapel picture exhibition, 296
  • Whittington, 47
  • Willoughby, Sir Hugh, 85
  • Winter amusements, 310
  • Woodcock, Captain, 272
  • Workhouse, the, 349
  • Working class, better sort, 119
  • Yarmouth Church, why closed, 303