District · London
River Wards
The river wards are the working districts along the lower Thames in London. The second Great Fire of 4556 ran through them for eight days. Old women of the wards hold places in shrine queues for threepence, and household advice for young wives is written for them. Their quays have their own scale of status, from those proud of regular cargo to those handling what better stairs avoid.
Where the volumes speak of it
- Book I › Chapter 8 — London and the Lower Thames: The Capital Lens › 8.5 Labour, rumour, and the memory of fire
- Book II › Chapter 11 — Churches, Chapels, Shrines, and Sacred London › 11.5 The Working Shrines and What People Queue For
- Book II › Chapter 6 — River London: Docks, Quays, Ferries, and Mud Stairs › 6.2 Ferries, Stairs, and River Trades
- Book II › Chapter 13 — Daily Life, Labour, Servants, and the Cost of Living › 13.1 Lodging, Meals, and Household Arithmetic
