Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood Part 12

Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's.

Hanover Square Rooms.

Exeter Hall, 372 Strand, Choral Societies, Sacred Harmonic, &c.

St. James's Hall, Quadrant and Piccadilly,-Concerts occasionally.

16 Store Street, Bedford Square,

St. George's Hall, Langham Place.

Princess's Concert Room, Princess's Theatre,-Concerts occasionally.

Queen's Concert Room, (attached to Her Majesty's Theatre,)-Concerts occasionally.

Myddleton Hall, Upper Street, Islington.

Agricultural Hall, Islington,-Concerts occasionally.

MUSIC HALLS.

Alhambra {178} Leicester Square, (east side.) Alhambra (Temperance) Music Hall Sh.o.r.editch.

Borough Music Hall 170 Union Street.

Cambridge Music Hall Commercial Street.

Canterbury Hall Lambeth Upper Marsh.

Deacon's Sadler's Wells.

Evans' Covent Garden.

Islington Philharmonic Hall {179} High Street, Islington.

Marylebone High Street Metropolitan Music Hall 125 Edgeware Road.

Middles.e.x Drury Lane.

The Oxford 6 Oxford Street, (east end.) Pavilion Music Hall Tichborne Street, Haymarket.

Raglan Music Hall 26 Theobald's Road.

Regent Vincent Square, Westminster.

South London Music Hall 92 London Rd., St. George's Fields.

Royal (late Weston's) Music Hall 242 High Holborn.

Wilton's Music Hall Wellclose Square.

Winchester Hall Southwark Bridge Road.

MODES OF ADMISSION TO VARIOUS INTERESTING PLACES.

Free.

_British Museum_.-_Chelsea Hospital_.-_Courts of Law and Justice_ (at the Criminal Court and the Police Courts a fee is often needed.)-_Docks_, (but not the vaults and warehouses without an introduction.)-_Dulwich Gallery_.-_East India Museum_, Fife House, Whitehall.-_Greenwich Hospital_, (a small fee for some parts.)-_Hampton Court Palace_, (Sundays as well as week-days).-_Houses of Parliament_, (some portions every day; more on Sat.u.r.days.)-_Kew Botanic Garden and Pleasure Grounds_, (Sundays as well as week-days.)-_Museum of Economic Geology_, Jermyn Street.-_National Gallery_.-_National Portrait Gallery_.-_Patent Museum_, (adjoining the South Kensington Museum.)-_Soane's Museum_, Lincoln's Inn Fields.-_Society of Arts_ Exhibition of Inventions, (in the spring of each year.)-_St. Paul's Cathedral_, (fees for Crypt and all above stairs.)-_Westminster Abbey_, (a fee for some of the Chapels.)-_Westminster Hall_.-_Windsor Castle_, (at periods notified from time to time.)-_Woolwich Repository_, (the Dockyard was closed in October, 1869, and a letter of introduction is needed for the a.r.s.enal.) Private Picture Galleries are sometimes opened free; of which notice is given in the newspapers.

s.h.i.+lling Admissions.

The number of s.h.i.+lling Exhibitions open in London is at all times very large, but more especially in the summer months. The first page of the _Times_ contains advertis.e.m.e.nts relating to the whole of them; while the penny papers contain a considerable number. As the list varies from time to time, we cannot print it here; but the following are the chief places where the exhibitions or entertainments are held. (Theatres and Music Halls are not included; because the terms of admission vary to different parts of those buildings. We may here add that _Burford's_ and the _Colosseum_ have long been closed.)-_Cremorne Gardens_, Chelsea.-_Crystal Palace_, Sydenham, (2s. 6d. on Sat.u.r.day, 1s. on other days.)-_Egyptian Hall_, Piccadilly, (sometimes two or three exhibitions at once, in different parts of the building.)-_Gallery of Ill.u.s.tration_, Regent Street.-Various temporary exhibitions in large rooms situated in the Haymarket, Pall Mall, Regent Street, Piccadilly, and Bond Street.-_Picture Exhibitions_, (such as the _Royal Academy_, the _British Inst.i.tution_, the _Society of British Artists_, two _Water Colour Societies_, &c.)-_Polytechnic Inst.i.tution_, Regent Street.-_Polygraphic Hall_, Strand.-_Tussaud's Waxwork_, Baker Street Bazaar.-_Zoological Gardens_, (sixpence on Mondays.)

Admit by Introduction.

Among the places to which admission may be obtained by personal introduction, or by letter, the following may be named:-_Antiquarian Society's Museum_, Somerset House.-_Armourer's Museum_, (ancient armour,) 81 Coleman Street.-_Asiatic Society's Museum_, 5 New Burlington Street.-_Bank of England Museum_, (collection of coins.)-_Botanical Society's Gardens and Museum_, Regent's Park.-_College of Surgeons'

Museum_, Lincoln's Inn Fields.-_Guildhall Museum_, (old London antiquities.)-_Linnaean Society's Museum_, Burlington House.-_Mint_, (process of coining,) Tower Hill.-_Missionary Museum_, (idols, rude implements, &c.,) Bloomfield Street, Finsbury.-_Naval Museum_, (formerly, now at South Kensington.)-_Private Picture Galleries_, (several.)-_Royal Inst.i.tution Museum_, Albemarle Street.-_Trinity House Museum_, (models of lighthouses, &c.,) Tower Hill.-_United Service Museum_, Scotland Yard.-_Woolwich a.r.s.enal_.

_N.B._-These lists are subject to constant change.

PRINc.i.p.aL PUBLIC AND TURKISH BATHS.

(Those printed in _italics_ are public baths, established rather for the benefit of the working and middle cla.s.ses, than for the sake of profit.

At most of them a third-cla.s.s cold bath can be obtained for 1d.; from which minimum the prices rise to about 6d. or 8d. Many of the so-called _Turkish_ baths are ordinary baths in which the arrangements for the Turkish or Oriental system have recently been introduced. There are also a few _Medicated Baths_, kept by medical pract.i.tioners for the use of invalids.)

_Bermondsey Baths_ 39 _Spa Road_, _Bermondsey_.

_Bloomsbury_ _Endell Street_, _St. Giles's_.

Cadogan 155 Sloane Street, Chelsea.

Coldbath 25 Coldbath Square, Clerkenwell.

Culverwell's 10 Argyll Place and 5 New Broad Street.

Islington Cross Street.

Lambeth 8 Mount Street, Lambeth.

Mahomed's 42 Somerset Street, Portman Square.

Metropolitan 23 Ashley Crescent, City Road.

Old Roman 5 Strand Lane.

Old Royal 10 and 11 Bath Street, Newgate Street.

Pentonville Pentonville Road, (south side.) _Poplar_ _East India Road_.

Portland Great Portland Street, (east side.) Royal York 54 York Terrace, Regent's Park.

Russell 56 Great Coram Street, Russell Square.

Russian 16a Old Cavendish Street.

_St. George's_ 8 _Davis Street_, _Berkeley Square_, _and_ 88 _Buckingham Palace Road_.

- 22 _Lower Belgrave Place_.

_St. James's_ 16 _Marshall Street_, _Golden Square_.

_St. Martin's_ _Orange Street_, _Leicester Square_.

_St. Marylebone_ 181 _Marylebone Road_.

Wenlock Wenlock Road, City Road.

_Westminster_ 21 _Great Smith Street_, _Westminster_.

_Whitechapel_ _Goulston Square_, _Whitechapel_.

Turkish.