Short's Gardens

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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of:

Short's Gardens was in 1623 really a garden, and a little later than that date was acquired by a man named Dudley Short.

Betterton Street was until comparatively recently called Brownlow, from Sir John Brownlow of Belton, who had a house here in Charles II's time.

The street is now, to use a favourite expression of Stow's, "better built than inhabited," for the row of brick houses of no very squalid type are inhabited by the very poor.

Endell Street was built in 1844, at the time of the erection of the workhouse.

In it are the National Schools, a Protestant Swiss chapel, and an entrance to the public baths and wash-houses, to the south of which rise the towers of the workhouse.

Christ Church is hemmed in by the workhouse, having an outlet only on the street.

The church was consecrated in 1845.

In Short's Gardens is the Lying-in Hospital, the oldest institution of the kind in England.

On the west side, between Castle Street and Short's Gardens, the remains of an ancient bath were discovered at what was once No. 3, Belton Street, now 23 and 25, Endell Street.

Tradition wildly asserts that this was used by Queen Anne.

Fragments of it still remain in the room used for iron lumber, for the premises are in the occupation of an iron merchant, but the water has long since ceased to flow.

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