by the late THOMAS CROFTON CROKER, F.S.A., M.R.I.A. revised and edited by his son , T. F. DILLON CROKER, F.S.A., F.R.G.S. with additional illustrations , by F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A. Illustration LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG. 1860....

A series of papers which originally appeared in ‘Fraser’ are now, for the first time, published in a collected form with the consent of the proprietors of that Magazine.  It should, however, be stated, that this is not a mere reprint, but that other matter has been inserted, and several illustrations, which did not appear originally, are now added, by which the work is very materially increased: the whole having undergone a necessary revision. Since the late Mr. Crofton Croker contributed to ‘Fr

The late eminent genealogist, Sir W. Betham of Dublin, Ulster King-at-Arms, well known as the author of numerous works on the Antiquities of Ireland, and Mr. Richard Sainthill, an equally zealous antiquary still living in Cork, were two of the most intimate friends and correspondents of the late Mr. Crofton Croker. The first-named gentleman drew up an elaborate table tracing the Croker pedigree as far back as the battle of Agincourt.  The Croker crest—“Deus alit eos”—was granted to Sir John Crok

knightsbridge to the bell and horns , brompton . Anyone Obliged by circumstances to lead the life of a pendulum, vibrating between a certain spot distant four miles from London, and a certain spot just out of the smoke of the metropolis,—going into town daily in the morning and returning in the evening,—may be supposed, after the novelty has worn off, from the different ways by which he can shape his course, to find little interest in his monotonous movement.  Indeed, I have heard many who live

from the bell and horns , brompton , to little chelsea . To return to the continuation of Michael’s Place .  It is divided between Nos. 11 and 12 by Michael’s Grove , which led to Brompton Grange, for some years the seat of the favourite veteran vocalist, Braham, who made his appearance as a public singer at the age of ten years, and so far back as 1787.  The Grange was taken down in October 1843, and, in the course of twelve months, its spacious grounds were covered by a decided crescent and ot

from little chelsea to walham green . After what has been said respecting Shaftesbury House, it may be supposed that its associations with the memory of remarkable individuals are exhausted.  This is very far from being the case; and a long period in its history, from 1635 to 1699, remains to be filled up, which, however, must be done by conjecture: although so many circumstances are upon record, that it is not impossible others can be produced to complete a chain of evidence that may establish

walham green to fulham . The village of Walham Green, which is distant from Hyde Park Corner between two and a half and three miles, appears to have been first so called soon after the revolution of 1688.  Before this, it was known as Wansdon Green, written also Wandon and Wandham; all of which names, according to Lysons, originated from the manor of Wendon, so was the local name written in 1449, which in 1565 was spelled Wandowne.  As the name of a low and marshy piece of land on the opposite s

fulham . In Faulkner’s ‘History of Fulham’ we learn that the earliest mention of that village occurs in a grant of the manor by Tyrhtilus Bishop of Hereford, to Erkenwald Bishop of London, and his successors, about the year 691; in which grant it is called Fulanham .  Camden in his ‘Britannia’ calls it Fulham , and derives its name from the Saxon word Fulanham , Volucrum Domus , the habitation of birds or place of fowls.  Norden agrees with Camden, and adds, “It may also be taken for Volucrum Am

north end . North End may be described as a series of residences on each side the lane, more than a mile in length, which runs from the church at Walham Green to the main road from Kensington to Hammersmith.  There were but few houses in it when Faulkner published his map in 1813.  Market gardens were on both sides the road, and the gardeners cottagers were very old.  Panelled Door The panelled door, here represented, was fitted to one of them, and evidently was fashioned in the seventeenth cent

the pryor’s bank , fulham . Nestling in trees beneath the old tower of Fulham Church, which has been judiciously restored by Mr. George Godwin, there may be seen from Putney Bridge a remarkable group of houses, the most conspicuous of which will be conjectured from a passing glance to belong to the Gothic tribe.  This house, which has been a pet kind of place of the Strawberry Hill class, is called the Pryor’s Bank, and its history can be told in much less than one hundredth part of the space th