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  • 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, ernal">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, 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,

    • Transcriber’s Notes:
      • Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
      • Typographical errors were silently corrected.
      • Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.


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