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smells,
6.1
,
6.2

uses for sewage,
6.1
,
6.2

sewer-workers/“flushers”,
6.1
,
6.2

contemporary

Shadwell

Sharland, Charles: London Underground poster

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer:
Thames Tunnel v

Shepherd’s Bush Common

Shepherd’s Bush Pumping Station

Shoreditch,
4.1
,
7.1
,
11.1

Shorts Gardens

Sims, George:
The Mysteries of Modern London
,
10.1

Smithfield,
3.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1

South Kensington

South Molton Lane

South Street tunnel

Southwark,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Southwark Cathedral,
2.1
,
3.1

Southwark High Street

Spa Fields

spas,
3.1
,
3.2

Spitalfields

springs,
3.1
,
3.2
,
6.1

see also
spas; wells

Sprot, William

Staffordshire Blue bricks

Stamford Brook

Stepney

“Mickey’s Shelter”

sewer

Stockwell,
3.1
,
9.1
,
12.1

Stoke Newington: Abney Park Cemetery,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1

Stoke Newington Common

Stow, John,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
7.1

Strand, the

sewer

Stratford: Abbey Mills Pumping Station,
6.1
,
6.2

Streatham Well

street cries

Stukeley, William

Styx, River

suicides

burial of

on London Underground

Swift, Jonathan: “A Description of a City Shower”

Swiss Cottage,
4.1
,
9.1

Swiss Cottager
,
12.1
,
12.2

Tabernacle Street, Finsbury: public baths

tanneries

Tate Gallery

telephone system/telecommunications,
1.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
11.1
,
11.2

temperatures, underground

Teredo naturalis
(ship‑worm),
8.1

Thames, River

items found in,
2.1
,
2.2

rivers running into,
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
4.7
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4

sewage,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5

tunnels beneath,
7.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
11.1

see also
Thames Tunnel

Thames Embankments,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1

Thames Tideway Tunnel

Thames Tunnel
v
,
8.1
,
124,
8.2
,
9.1

Thames Water

theatres

Sadler’s Wells,
3.1
,
3.2

Things to Come
(film),
12.1

Thoreau, Henry

“Tilbury” shelter

tiles/tiling,
5.1
,
8.1
,
9.1

Roman,
2.1
,
3.1
,
9.1

see also
London Underground

Times, The
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

Tokenhouse Yard

Tolpuddle Street, Islington

Took’s Court

Tooley Street

Tooting

“toshers”

Tottenham Court Road,
7.1
,
12.1

Tower Bridge,
8.1
,
8.2

Tower Hamlets: commissioner of sewers

Tower Hamlets Cemetery

Tower Hill,
2.1
,
8.1

sewer

Tower of London,
1.1
,
11.1

Jewel House

White Tower

Tower subway

Trafalgar Square,
11.1
,
11.2

Treasury, the,
2.1
,
11.1

trenches, underground

Trial Trip on the Underground Railway, The
(engraving),
9.1

Turnagain Lane

Turnmill Street,
5.1
,
5.2

“Twopenny Tube” 140

Tyburn (village)

Tyburn, the,
2.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

Tyburn sewer

Underground
(film),
10.1

“underground” movements

Upper Street, Islington

Upper Wimpole Street

vaults,
1.1
,
2.1
,
4.1
,
10.1
,
10.2

bank,
11.1
,
11.2

in sewers,
6.1
,
6.2

Vauxhall,
4.1
,
11.1

Vauxhall Bridge

Verne, Jules:
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
,
13.1

Victoria

Victoria, Queen,
6.1
,
8.1

Victoria Embankment,
6.1
,
6.2

Victorians,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
13.1

Vincent Square

Vine Hill

Walbrook, the,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1
,
6.1

Walbrook Street

Walton, Izaak:
The Compleat Angler
,
4.1

Wandle, the,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Wandsworth

Wapping

Ward, Ned:
The London Spy
,
5.1

Warner Street,
5.1
,
5.2

water companies

Water Lane, Brixton

Water Ring Main,
7.1
,
7.2

Watson, J. B.:
The Wandle,
4.1

Weil’s disease

Welbeck Abbey

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

wells,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1
,
4.2

Wells, H. G.

The Time Machine
,
13.1
,
13.2

Tono‑Bungay
,
10.1

The War of the Worlds
,
13.1

When the Sleeper Wakes
,
13.1

Well Walk, Hampstead

Westbourne, the,
4.1
,
4.2

Westbourne Gardens

Westbourne Grove

Westminster,
2.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
11.1

sewer

Westminster Bridge

Westminster Hospital, old

Whitechapel,
4.1
,
9.1
,
10.1

sewer

White City

White Conduit Street, Islington

Whitehall,
2.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4

Cabinet War Rooms,
11.1
,
11.2

Wick Lane, Bow

Wilde, Oscar

Wine Office Court

Woman’s World
,
9.1

Working Man, The
(magazine),
9.1

World War I

World War II,
2.1
,
2.2
,
12.1

Wormwood Scrubs

Wren, Sir Christopher,
2.1
,
5.1
,
6.1

York: Roman sewers

Also by Peter Ackroyd

FICTION

The Great Fire of London
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Hawksmoor
Chatterton
First Light
English Music
The House of Doctor Dee
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Milton in America
The Plato Papers
The Clerkenwell Tales
The Lambs of London
The Fall of Troy
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

NONFICTION

Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
London: The Biography
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
Venice: Pure City

BIOGRAPHY

Ezra Pound and His World
T.S. Eliot
Dickens
Blake
The Life of Thomas More
Shakespeare: The Biography

ACKROYD’S BRIEF LIVES

Chaucer
J.M.W. Turner
Newton
Poe: A Life Cut Short

POETRY

Ouch!
The Diversions of Purley and Other Poems

CRITICISM

Notes for a New Culture
The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures
edited by Thomas Wright

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