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All About Battersea,

BY

HENRY S. SIMMONDS.

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S. MARY'S, built according to Act of Parliament, 14. Geo. III. Opened Nov.17, 1777. About 1823 an Entrance Portico of the Doric Order was added.
London:
ASHFIELD, PRINTER, BRIDGE ROAD WEST, BATTERSEA.
1882.

This small volume
IS MOST
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED (by permission)
TO
THE REV. JOHN ERSKINE CLARKE, M.A.,
Honorary Canon of Winchester, Vicar of Battersea;
AND TO THE
INHABITANTS IN GENERAL.


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INDEX.

 Page.
Introduction.iv
 
Nine Elms Lane.—The King's Champion.3
 
Thorne's Brewery.—What Battersea has been called.4
 
London and South Western Railway Company's Goods Station and
Locomotive Works.4-7
 
Mill-Pond Bridge.—New Road.8
 
A Royal Sturgeon caught in the wheel of the Mill at Mill-Pond Bridge.   9
 
Wallace's Vitriol Works.10
 
Sleaford Street.—Coal.11
 
Street Lighting.12-13
 
London Gas-Light Company's Works and Vauxhall Gardens.14-23
 
On a recently-exposed Section at Battersea.23-24
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