The House by the Thames: And the People who Lived ThereChatto & Windus, 2006 - 258 páginas A masterpiece of miniaturist, social history. In closely examining the history of one house - 49 Bankside - Gillian Tindall tells the story of Southwark and the south bank, the river Thames and indeed of London itself. 49 Bankside is an 18th century house, the last genuine survivor of what was once a long ribbon of houses overlooking the water. It still stands, opposite St Paul's Cathedral, and next door to the re-built Globe theatre and the new bridge which takes pedestrians across the Thames to Tate Modern. Earlier there was a medieval inn, the Cardinal's Hat, on the same site. Gillian Tindall makes the whole area - and its long history - live again. Here are the bear-baiting pits and the brothels, the priests' fish ponds and the bishop's underground prison (the 'Clink'), the theatres of Shakespeare's time, and the iron and coal businesses of the industrial revolution. Rich with anecdote and colour, empathetic, scholarly and textured, this is social history at its most enjoyable. Gillian Tindall excels at description and picking out the most fascinating details. Celebrities from history walk through her pages but her book is, above all, about the families who lived in the house and worked nearby - about those who made their living in boats on the Thames (a living constantly threatened by the building of bridges or the coming of steam-ships), about keeping 19th-century London supplied with gas, about girls at home sewing military uniforms. Readers will identify with these characters from the past, and will become deeply involved in the stories of their daily lives. |
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In which we find the House | 1 |
Londons Other Town | 8 |
Of Winchester Geese Birdseye Views | 20 |
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49 Bankside Anchor Brewery ancient Anna Lee appeared barges became become Bermondsey Bishop Blackfriars Bridge boats Borough Borough High Street Borough Market brewery brother building built Cardinal Cap Alley Cardinal's Wharf Charringtons City coal coal-merchants Cross Bones decades door early Edward Perronet Sells Edward Sells eighteenth century eventually evidence front further Globe ground Henry Thrale Henslowe High Street Horne hundred industry John Lambeth lanes later lightermen lived London Bridge Malcolm Munthe Munthe nineteenth century number 49 number 50 occupation palace Paris Garden Pike Garden Pool of London Power Station quay railway rebuilt river School seems Sells's shore side south bank Southwark Bridge St George's Fields St Paul's St Saviour's church St Saviour's parish Stevenson Surrey Tate Modern Thames theatres Thrale trade V. S. Pritchett Vestry Victorian warehouses waterfront watermen wharves Wren yard