Gilded Drainpipes
E.S. Turner: London, 10 June 1999
The London Rich: The Creation of a Great City from 1666 to the Present
by Peter Thorold.
Viking, 374 pp., £25, June 1999,0 670 87480 9 Show More
by Peter Thorold.
Viking, 374 pp., £25, June 1999,
The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture
by Mordaunt Crook.
Murray, 354 pp., £25, May 1999,0 7195 6040 3 Show More
by Mordaunt Crook.
Murray, 354 pp., £25, May 1999,
“... on the mob in the Gordon Riots, had another claim to notice. As a sheriff of London, Sir Barnard Turner was instrumental in abolishing Tyburn as a place of execution. In so doing he ended the tumultuous turnout of ruffians, whores and honest citizens who cheered, or execrated, the deathcart on its way from Newgate along Tyburn Road, now Oxford Street, to the ... ”