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English Walnut Bracket/Mantel Clock James Powell London
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UK: 1896 Map, London Population Density. Hackney, etc
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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, starts his survey of Holborn:

The district to be treated in this volume includes a good many parishes - namely, St. Giles-in-the-Fields; St. George, Bloomsbury; St. George the Martyr; St Andrew, Holborn; Hatton Garden, Saffron Hill; besides the two famous Inns of Court, Lincoln's and Gray's, and the remaining buildings of several Inns of Chancery, now diverted from their former uses.

Nearly all the district is included in the new Metropolitan Borough of Holborn, which itself differs but little from the Parliamentary borough known as the Holborn Division of Finsbury.

Part of St. Andrew's parish lies outside both of these, and is within the Liberties of the City.

The transition from Holborn borough to the City will be noted in crossing the boundary.

Kingsway, the new street from the Strand to Holborn, cuts through the selected district.

It begins in a crescent, with one end near St. Clement's Church, and the other near Wellington Street.

From the site of the Olympic Theatre it runs north, crossing High Holborn at Little Queen Street, and continuing northward through Southampton Row.

This street runs roughly north and south throughout the district selected, and dividing it east and west is the great highway, which begins as New Oxford Street, becomes High Holborn, and continues as Holborn and Holborn Viaduct.

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