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Title: Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney
The Fascination of London

Author: Geraldine Edith Mitton
John Cunningham Geikie

Editor: Sir Walter Besant

Release Date: January 7, 2007 [EBook #20310]

Language: English

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THE FASCINATION
OF LONDON

HAMMERSMITH
FULHAM AND PUTNEY

_IN THIS SERIES._

Cloth, price 1s. 6d. net; leather, price 2s. net each.

THE STRAND DISTRICT.

By SIR WALTER BESANT and G. E. MITTON.

WESTMINSTER.

By SIR WALTER BESANT and G. E. MITTON.

HAMPSTEAD AND MARYLEBONE.

By G. E. MITTON. Edited by SIR WALTER BESANT.

CHELSEA.

By G. E. MITTON. Edited by SIR WALTER BESANT.

KENSINGTON.

By G. E. MITTON. Edited by SIR WALTER BESANT.

HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY.

By SIR WALTER BESANT and G. E. MITTON.

HAMMERSMITH, FULHAM, AND PUTNEY.

By G. E. MITTON and J. C. GEIKIE.

MAYFAIR, BELGRAVIA, AND PIMLICO.

_In the press._

[Illustration: FULHAM PALACE.]

The Fascination of London

HAMMERSMITH,
FULHAM
AND PUTNEY

BY
G. E. MITTON
AND
J. C. GEIKIE

EDITED BY
SIR WALTER BESANT

LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
1903

PREFATORY NOTE

A survey of London, a record of the greatest of all cities, that should
preserve her history, her historical and literary associations, her
mighty buildings, past and present, a book that should comprise all that
Londoners love, all that they ought to know of their heritage from the
past--this was the work on which Sir Walter Besant was engaged when he
died.

As he himself said of it: "This work fascinates me more than anything
else I've ever done. Nothing at all like it has ever been attempted
before. I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I
find something fresh in it every day."

Sir Walter's idea was that two of the volumes of his survey should
contain a regular