The Project Gutenberg E-text of Stories of London
by E. L. Hoskyn
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hoskyn, E. L. (Elizabeth Louisa)
- Title
- Stories of London
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- London (England) -- Juvenile literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33613
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33613
- Release Date
- September 3, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.NO. 1. AN OLD RIVER-WALL OR EMBANKMENT (CHELSEA) See page 9
- 2.STORIES OF — LONDON — BY — E. L. HOSKYN, B.A. (LOND.) — WITH A PREFACE BY — SOPHIE BRYANT, D.Sc., LITT.D. — LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1914 — PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — NO. 2. PART OF THE BUILDINGS OF THE OLD CHARTER HOUSE SCHOOL, ITS CHAPEL AND PLAYGROUND. ( See p. 28 )
- 5.STORIES OF LONDON — I. — SOME VERY OLD STORIES — NO. 3. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY: THE TOMB OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR WITH ITS VELVET COVERING See pages 17 and 22 — NO. 4. THE FIRST CORONATION IN THE ABBEY See page 21 — LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE NORMANS. — NO. 5. A ROOM IN THE TOWER WHERE STATE PRISONERS WERE LODGED. — NO. 6. SIR THOMAS MORE AND HIS DAUGHTER WATCH THE CARTHUSIAN PRIORS GOING AWAY TO DIE. See page 26 — II. — THE STORY OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY — III. — THE STORY OF THE CHARTER HOUSE — NO. 7. OLD PENSIONERS AND SCHOOLBOYS IN THE CHARTER HOUSE. See page 28 — NO. 8. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH BEFORE IT WAS RESTORED. See page 30 — IV. — TWO FAMOUS CHARITIES — NO. 9. AN EXCITING GAME: OLD CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, LONDON — NO. 10. ENTRANCES OF THE OLD CHRIST'S HOSPITAL AND OF CHRIST CHURCH, LONDON — V. — THE STORY AND HISTORY OF DICK WHITTINGTON — NO. 11. AN ARCH OF LONDON BRIDGE; TOWER BRIDGE IN THE DISTANCE. — NO. 12. WHITTINGTON SETTING THE KING FREE FROM THE GREAT DEBT. — VI. — WHEN ELIZABETH WAS QUEEN — NO. 13. GREENWICH AS IT IS NOW. — NO. 14. PLACENTIA, THE OLD PALACE AT GREENWICH. — NO. 15. THE FIRE OF LONDON — VII. — ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL — NO. 16. ST. PAUL'S FROM THE RIVER — OLD ST. PAUL'S. Burnt down in 1666.
- 6.Black's Historical Series, — By E. L. HOSKYN, B.A. — PICTURES OF BRITISH HISTORY — MORE PICTURES OF BRITISH HISTORY. — By M. W. KEATINGE, M.A., and N. L. FRAZER, M.A. — A HISTORY OF ENGLAND FOR SCHOOLS. — WITH DOCUMENTS, PROBLEMS, AND EXERCISES. — DOCUMENTS OF BRITISH HISTORY.
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