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All About Battersea,

HENRY S. SIMMONDS.

London: ASHFIELD, PRINTER, BRIDGE ROAD WEST, BATTERSEA.

PAGE. INTRODUCTION.

Nine Elms Lane.--The King's Champion. 3

Thorne's Brewery.--What Battersea has been called. 4

London and South Western Railway Company's Goods Station and Locomotive Works. 4-7

Mill-Pond Bridge.--New Road. 8

A Royal Sturgeon caught in the wheel of the Mill at Mill-Pond Bridge. 9

Wallace's Vitriol Works. 10

Sleaford Street.--Coal. 11

Street Lighting. 12-13

London Gas-Light Company's Works and Vauxhall Gardens. 14-23

On a recently-exposed Section at Battersea. 23-24

Phillips' Fire Annihilating Machine Factory Destroyed.--Brayne's Pottery.--The Old Lime Kilns.--Laver's Cement & Whiting Works. 25

The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Works. 26

Water Carriers and Water Companies. 27-29

The Village of Battersea.--Growth of the Parish. 30-31

Boundaries.--A Legal Contest between Battersea and Clapham Parishes.--Clapham Common. 32-33

Lavender Hill.--The Seat of William Wilberforce.--Eminent Supporters of the Anti-Slavery Movement.--Frances Elizabeth Leveson Gower.--Mr. Thornton.--Philip Cazenove.--Charles Curling, Lady George Pollock, and others. 34-36

Battersea Market Gardens and Gardeners. 36-37

Stages set out for Battersea from the City.--Annual Fair.--Inhabitants supplied with Water from Springs.--The Manor of Battersea before the Conquest. 38

Battersea and its association with the St. Johns. 39

Henry St. John Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. 40-42

A Horizontal Air Mill. 43

St. Mary's Church. 44-46

The Indenture. 47-48

Epitaphs and Sepulchral Monuments. 49-51

Rectory and Vicarage. 52

A Petition or Curious Document. 53

Dr. Thomas Temple.--Dr. Thomas Church. 54

Cases of Longevity.--The Plague.--The Three Plague Years.--Deaths in Battersea. 55-56

Vicars of Battersea from Olden Times. 56-57

Thomas Lord Stanley.--Lawrence Booth. 57

York House. 58

Battersea Enamel Works.--Porcelain.--Jens Wolfe, Esq.--Sherwood Lodge.--Price's Patent Candle Factory. 59-62

Candlemas. 63-64

The Saw.--Mark Isambard Brunel's Premises at Battersea.--Establishment for the preservation of timber from the dry rot burnt down. 65

History of the Ferry.--The Old Wooden Bridge. 66-67

Albert Suspension Bridge. 68-69

Chelsea Suspension Bridge. 70

The Prince of Wales.--Freeing the Bridges "For Ever." 71-73

The Stupendous Railway Bridge across the Thames. 74

The spot where Caesar and his legions are stated by some antiquarians to have crossed the river. 75

A haunted house.--Battersea Fields.--Duel between the Duke of Wellington and Lord Winchelsea. 76

The Red House. 77

"Gyp" the Raven.--Billy the Nutman.--Sports. 78

"The Old House at Home."--Sabbath Desecration. 79

Her Majesty's Commissioners empowered by Act of Parliament to form a Royal Park in Battersea Fields.--Wild Flowers.--Battersea Park. 80-84

London, Brighton and South-Coast Railway Company's two Circular Engine Sheds and West-End Goods Traffic Department. 85-86

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