Charing Cross Hospital

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ANTIQUE ENGLISH GEORGIAN STERLING SILVER - PARKER & WAKELIN LONDON 1760-1776
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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of the Strand district with a mention of the Charing Cross Hospital:

At the corner of Agar and King William Streets, on the north, is the Charing Cross Hospital, founded 1818, and built on the present site in 1831, the architect being Decimus Burton.

It is a dreary stuccoed building, with a rounded end, and contains nothing that specially marks it out from other general hospitals.

In Chandos Street the highwayman Claude Duval was arrested, after which he was executed at Tyburn, 1669.

There was an ancient hostelry called the Black Prince in Chandos Street, which is mentioned by Dickens.

This was demolished to make way for the Medical College.

Opposite was the blacking shop where Dickens spent a miserable part of his childhood.

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