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London's Landmarks

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
April
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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London is losing its old land marks at an alarming rate. In the neighborhood of Holborn the course of destruetion has been particularly notlceable during the year gone past, says the London Standard. The demolition now in progress of a number of ancient houses on the north side of that thoroughfare will cover with oblivion many a spot of historie interest. The clear anee begins at Furnival's inn, and one may take a last glimpse of the top set of chambers, in which Charles Dickens wrote part of the "Pickwick Papers." Then the labors of the "housobreaker" extend to the famous "Ol'J Bell," which has already been razed to the ground. Between these two points two other licensed houses pleasant with the flavor of bygono days, and more than one building with an interesting history, are doomed. Bidler's hotel, which is to be rebuilt and enlarged, is a relie of the early days of the queen's reign, and the removal of the present structure means the destruction of the Horse and Groom at the corner of Leather lane. This house claims to have been licensed for close upon a couple of hundred years, but the buildings are probably at least a century older. and it is one of the quaintest hostelries in London. Former associations of the house connect it with the highwaymen who plied their cailing on the Great North road, and Jonathan Wild, the notorious thief-taker, whoso skeleton rests in the College of Surgeons in Lineoln's Inn Fields, hard by, was once a regular customer at the tavern whose days are numbered.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat