District · London
Bell Lantern Ward
Bell Lantern Ward is a ward of the Commons where clerks, small workshops and crowded respectability are squeezed into a handful of busy streets. Bell Lantern Lock serves as its lockhouse, and the Goose and Gridiron is the house of its clerks and workshop men.
Where the volumes speak of it
- LiB2 › Chapter 1 — London › 1.12 Talk of the Town
- Book II › Chapter 5 — The Commons: Streets, Wards, Markets, and Parishes › 5.1 Working Streets and Ward Life
- Book II › Chapter 18 — The Afflicted, Custody, and London’s Receiving Role › 18.2 Custody institutions and ward hostility
- LiB1 › Chapter 5 — Streets and Stairs › 5.6 The Streets by Name
- LiB2 › Chapter 1 — London › 1.4 Taverns, Public Houses, and Beerhouses
- LiB2 › Chapter 1 — London › 1.5 Cook-Shops, Chop Houses, and Coffee Rooms
- LiB2 › Chapter 1 — London › 1.7 Offices, Watch-Houses, Lockhouses, and Gaols
Within Bell Lantern Ward
Building Bell Lantern Lock Bell Lantern Lock is the lockhouse of Bell Lantern Ward in London, where the ward's correction is carried out. Its stone holds the chill in every season, so that someone… Inn and venue The Copper Pan The Copper Pan is a cook-shop in Bell Lantern Ward, London, run by Mrs Patience Overy. Clerks eat a fivepenny dinner there, and it is thought fair value for the money. Inn and venue The Goose and Gridiron The Goose and Gridiron is a tavern in Bell Lantern Ward, kept by Landlady Honor Bulmer. It serves clerks and small-workshop men from the crowded streets of the ward, and… Building Hustwick's A pledge-shop in Bell Lantern Ward under the three balls. Pawnbroker Eli Hustwick gives the coldest valuation in London, and refused three favour guineas offered across… 