Identifier: londonitsenviron00adam (find matches)
Title: London and its environs : a practical guide to the metropolis and its vicinity, illustrated by maps, plans and views
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
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Publisher: Edinburgh : A. & C. Black
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nt with other offices. The chief officeis at 90 Cannon Street, City, E. C. The Electric and International Telegraph Company.Chief office, Lothbury, near the Bank of England. Branch officesat Charing Cross, Regents Circus, and other parts of London.Messages at a settled rate of charge according to length, can besent to any part of the British Islands, or to the Continent. British and Irish IklAGNETic Telegraph Company havetheir chief office in a new and handsome building in Thread-needle Street, near the Bank of England, erected on the site ofthe Baltic Coffee-house. The wares of this Company extendthroughout the United Kingdom. Messages are received fortransmission in a lofty hall forty feet square. The Submarine Telegraph Company have also offices here.The cables of this Company bring London into direct communi-cation with all parts of Europe. The clock in the turret indi-cates true Greenwich time. Messengers.—A charitable society, in order to give employ- PLAN OF WATERLOO STATION.
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40 GENERAL INFORMATION COMMISSIONAIRES, ETC. ment to soldiers who Lave been disabled by losing a limb inthe service of the country, has undertaken to form a corps oftrust-worthy messengers (sometimes styled commissionaires). Theyare dressed in a dark green uniform, and wear badges; and arestationed about the principal streets of the east and west endsof the town. The authorized tarijff of charges is—by distance,two-pence for haK a mile or under; three-pence for a distancefrom half a mile to a mile. By time, sixpence an hour, or two-pence a quarter of an hour, walking at the rate of S^- miles anhour; half a crown for a day of eight hours. For calling acarriage, a penny. Conveyance of Parcels.—A Company called the LondonParcels Delivery Company, with their chief station in RollsBuildings, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, undertakes to deliverparcels in all parts of London at a settled rate of charge, accord-ing to weight and distance. There are numerous receiving officesin every part of t

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