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escalators,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
10.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

films about,
10.1
,
12.1

flooding,
5.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
12.1

“ghost” stations

Hampstead Line

Inner Circle,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Jubilee Line,
9.1
,
9.2

lighting

locomotives

logo

map

Metropolitan Railway/line,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

name

Northern Line,
9.1
,
10.1
,
12.1

Piccadilly Line,
9.1
,
9.2

12.1

9.2
,
“Poems on the Underground”

posters,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
12.1

smells,
9.1
,
10.1

Stockwell Line
see
City and South London line

suicides

temperature

tickets,
9.1
,
9.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

tiles/tiling,
2.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1

unlucky stations

Victoria Line,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1

Waterloo and City Line (“the Drain”)

in World War I

in World War II,
12.1
,
13.1

stations:

Aldgate East

Aldwych,
10.1
,
12.1

Arnos Grove

Baker Street,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5

Balham

Bank,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
10.1

Bishop’s Road

Blackfriars

Bounds Green

British Museum

Brompton Road,
9.1
,
10.1

Canary Wharf

Charing Cross,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
12.1

Clapham Common,
9.1
,
9.2

Covent Garden

Dover Street

Down Street,
10.1
,
12.1

East Finchley

Elephant and Castle,
10.1
,
11.1

Gloucester Road,
9.1
,
10.1

Gower Street

Great Portland Street

Green Park

Holborn

Holloway Road

Hounslow West

Hyde Park Corner

Kennington

King William Street

King’s Cross,
10.1
,
12.1

Lancaster Gate

Mark Lane

Moorgate,
9.1
,
10.1

North End

North Greenwich

Notting Hill Gate

Oxford Circus

Portland Road

St. James’s Park

St. Paul’s,
9.1
,
10.1

Sloane Square,
4.1
,
10.1

South Kentish Town

The Strand,
9.1
,
12.1

Stratford,
9.1
,
9.2

Sudbury Town

Swiss Cottage

Temple

Tooting Broadway

Tottenham Court Road

Tower

Trafalgar Square

Vauxhall

Victoria,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3

Waterloo,
10.1
,
11.1

Westminster,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1

Whitechapel,
9.1
,
10.1

London Wall

Lord’s Cricket Ground,
6.1
,
11.1

Lots Road Power Station, Chelsea,
4.1
,
9.1
,
10.1

Lower Robert Street

Lower Thames Street

Lubienska, Countess Teresa

Ludgate Circus,
5.1
,
5.2

Ludgate Hill,
2.1
,
2.2
,
5.1
,
9.1

Lyttle, William

Macaulay, Rose:
Told by an Idiot
,
10.1

Maida Hill tunnel

Maiden Lane

Mall, the,
11.1
,
11.2

mammoth bones

Manhattan, New York

Mansion House

Marble Arch

Marsham Street

Martello towers

martyrdom, places of

Marylebone

Marylebone Lane

Marylebone Road

Marylebone Spa

Mayfair

sewer

Mayhew, Henry:
London Labour and the London Poor
,
1.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
9.1

Mere, William and Adam

Merton

Metropolitan Board of Works

Metropolitan District Electric Traction Company

Metropolitan Railway Company

see also under
London Underground

Metropolitan Water Board

MI5 building, Millbank

MI6 building, Vauxhall

“Mickey’s Shelter,” Stepney

Middleton, Hugh

Millbank

sewer

Miller, Thomas:
Picturesque Sketches of London
,
1.1

Minories, the

Minotaur, the,
1.1
,
8.1

Mirror
,
5.1

Mithras

head of

temple of (Mithraeum),
2.1
,
4.1

Moorcock, Michael:
Mother London
,
13.1

Moor Ditch

Moore, Henry,
12.1
,
12.2

Shelter Scene: Bunks and Sleepers,
12.1

Morning Chronicle
,
4.1

mosquitoes

Murdoch, Iris:
A Word Child
,
10.1

Muriel Street, Islington

Museum of London

Archaeology Service

Mysterious Planet, The
(TV serial),
10.1

mystery plays

National Gallery

National Grid,
7.1
,
7.2

Neckinger, the

Neckinger Wharf

Nelson, Lord Horatio

New Bridge Street

Newby, Eric:
A Traveller’s Life
,
4.1
,
6.1

Newcastle Close

New Fresh Wharf

New Kent Road

New Oxford Street

New River

New Statesman
,
11.1

Noel Road, Islington

Norwood,
4.1
,
4.2

catacombs,
2.1
,
2.2

Notting Hill,
3.1
,
9.1

Observer
,
6.1

Oldbourne Bridge

Old Seacoal Lane

Olympia

On Strange and Distant Lands
(sculpture),
8.1

Orczy, Baroness:
The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway
,
10.1

Ormsby, Hilda:
London on the Thames
,
4.1

Oxford Street,
1.1
,
2.1
,
4.1
,
7.1

Paddington,
4.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

Pakenham Street

Palaeolithic era,
2.1
,
2.2

Pall Mall

Panton Street

Paolozzi, Eduardo: mosaics

Paris: catacombs,
2.1
,
2.2

Park Lane

pumping station

Parliament Square,
11.1
,
11.2

Paxton, Joseph

Pearson, Charles,
9.1
,
9.2

Peck, the

Penny Illustrated Paper, The,
10.1

Pepys, Samuel

Pepys Street

Phoenix Place

Piccadilly

sewers,
6.1
,
6.2

Piccadilly Circus,
1.1
,
7.1

Pimlico,
4.1
,
6.1
,
11.1

Pinks, William:
History of Clerkenwell
,
5.1
,
5.2

pipes

gas,
1.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

water,
7.1
,
7.2
,
see also
conduits

plague, the,
1.1
,
5.1
,
5.2

plague pits

Pope, Alexander:
Dunciad
,
5.1

Poplar: commissioner of sewers

Portland, William John Cavendish‑Bentinck‑Scott, 5th Duke of,
8.1
,
8.2

Poultry,
2.1
,
4.1

Prioress Street, Bermondsey

prisons,
1.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Clerkenwell

Fleet,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4

pumping stations

Abbey Mills, Stratford,
6.1
,
6.2

Crossness,
6.1
,
6.2

Park Lane

Shepherd’s Bush

Punch
,
9.1

Quatermass and the Pit
(film),
10.1

Railway Gazette
,
12.1

Railway Times
,
9.1

Ranelagh sewer

rats,
1.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6

Ravenscourt Park: sewer

Ray Street

Red Lion Street

Regent’s Park

Restless Dream
(sculpture),
8.1

“Richard the Raker”

Richmond Terrace, Westminster

rivers

see specific rivers

Roman London,
2.1
,
5.1
,
6.1

administration

amphitheatres,
2.1
,
2.2

aqueducts,
3.1
,
4.1

baptistery

basilica,
2.1
,
2.2

bath‑houses,
2.1
,
2.2

Caesar’s camp

catacombs,
1.1
,
2.1

coins,
5.1
,
11.1

corpses and skulls,
2.1
,
2.2
,
5.1

pavements/roads,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
5.1

pottery

ship,
2.1
,
2.2

shrines/temples,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
,
5.1

statues,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
5.1

tiling,
2.1
,
3.1
,
9.1

walls,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Rose Playhouse, Southwark

Rosebery Avenue

Rosoman Street

Ross, Christopher:
Tunnel Visions
,
10.1

Rotherhithe,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

Rush Common, Brixton

Ruskin, John

Sadler, John

Sadler’s Wells

Sadler’s Wells Theatre,
3.1
,
3.2
,
7.1

Saffron Hill,
5.1
,
5.2

St. Bride’s Church, Fleet Street

St. Chad’s Place, King’s Cross,
3.1
,
5.1

St. Faith’s

St. James’s Park

St. John the Baptist upon Walbrook

St. John’s Wood,
3.1
,
7.1

St. Katherine’s: commissioner of sewers

St. Margaret Lothbury

St. Martin‑in‑the‑Fields

St. Martin‑le‑Grand

St. Mary‑le‑Bow

St. Mildred, Poultry

St. Pancras Church, Old,
2.1
,
5.1

St. Pancras Station

St. Paul’s, Old,
2.1
,
5.1

St. Paul’s Churchyard,
2.1
,
11.1

St. Saviour’s Dock

St. Stephen upon Walbrook

Sandford, Gilbert de

Screen of the Gods

Second Avenue tunnel

sewer‑hunters/“toshers” 84

sewers

commissioners of

construction,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

and disease

fat deposits

flooding

gases and explosions,
6.1
,
6.2

maps

rats,
1.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6

and rivers and springs,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
6.1

Roman

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