Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 3.djvu/550

 454

NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. HI. JUNE 10, 1905.

Chandos Street, Strand, or No. 4, Gower Street North, the references may be useful :

' Notes on some Dickens Places and People,' by Charles Dickens the Younger, illustrations by H. W. Brewer. The Pall Mall Magazine, July, 1896, vol. ix. p. 342.

' Charles Dickens's London,' by Walter Dexter, photographs by the author. The English Illustrated Mayazine, September, 1901, No. 216, p. 547.

' Dickens's London,' by Sydney E. Jackson, photo- graphs by H. F. Hatton, also a print of the Old Curiosity Shop in 1837. The Temple Magazine, January, 1902, vol. vi. p. 345.

' Relics of Dickens' London,' by Charles W. Dickens (grandson), illustrated by Val Prinsep. Mvaueafs Magazine. September, 1902, vol. xxvii. p. 833.

'Literary Geography: the Country of Dickens,' by William Sharp, illustrated by Edgar Wilson. The Pall Mall Magazine, February, 1903, vol. xxix. p. 237.

In The Daily Graphic of 9 February, 1899, appears a report (illustrated) of a lecture given on the 7th by Mr. H. Snowden Ward on 'The Heal Dickens Land,' in the ballroom of the " Bull " Inn, Rochester.

Nearly all the illustrations in the above articles are views ; and nearly all of them are of houses, &c., in London. The Temple fountain appears three times ; but none of the writers appears to know that the old fountain was removed some twenty to thirty years ago. It used to stand some five feet above the water in the big basin ; it was moss- grown, and the water rose gently to no great height and then dripped over the edge of the small top basin. It suited Dickens's description of Fountain Court much better than the fireman's hose which took its place.

Touching the inquiry concerning No. 3, Chandos Street, it may be worth noting that in ' Charles Dickens : the Story of his Life and Writings,' by B. W. Matz being No. 1 of the Dickens Fellowship Publications p. 2 is a drawing by Fred Barnard entitled ' Little Charles Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse.' The story is reprinted from Household Words of 14 June, 1902. Whether the numerous illustrations appeared therein I do not know. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

^ STREET (10 th S. iii. 248, 336, 375). Born in St. P ancras parish, and a resident therein for upwards of sixty years, 1 have naturally taken an interest in it. From personal recollections, and from information furnished by correspondents, I think the following particulars may be relied on.

Lucas Street was not named after the builder, but the freeholder. In 1822 Lucas, a bricklayer, resided at 5, Cromer Street, which he had built, and, being an eccentric, decorated it with casts from his stock-in-

trade, of which he possessed a most extensive collection. This residence was known as "Compo Cottage," and his sobriquet among his neighbours, with whom he generally spent his evenings at the "Skinner's Arms" in Judge Street, was "Lord Compo." A few years before his death he removed to Woburn Place, near St. Pancras Church, where, it is believed, he died. His two sons, Charles and Thomas, became the eminent contractors of Belvedere Road, S.E.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"TANDEM"' (10 th S. iii. 146). At 9 th S. xi. 256 will be found an instance of tandem (taken from The ttoston Evening Post of 18 May, 1747) in which the word apparently means a kind of cloth or an article of apparel. As this use of the word is both rare and singular, a second example is worth recording. The following advertisement appeared in The Independent Advertiser (Boston, Mass?.) of 21 November, 1748, p. 2, col. 3 :

"Imported in the last Ships from London, and to be sold by Gerrish and Barrell at their Store in

Queen-Street Oznabriggs, Garlets, Tandems,

Duffills, Shalloons, Tammies, Florettas,

Russels, Joan Spinning, Black and Scarlet

Hair Shagg Janes," &c.

The only suggestion that occurs to tho writer is that, like so many similar words as, in the above advertisement, Oznabriggs (from Osnabriick), Garlets (from Gorlitz), and Duffills (from Duffel) tandem is a corruption of the name of a place in England or Ireland, or on the Continent, or in the East Indies. But what place 1 ?

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

TURVILE (10 th S. iii. 367). William Turvile, of Aston-FJamville, co. Leicester, had a son Henry, born April, 1697, but no further par- ticulars are given (see Burke's 'Commoners'). JOHN RADCLIFFE.

NINTHS (10 th S. iii. 389). A ninth of movable goods payable in moieties, 7 December, 1297, and 3 February. 1297/8, was granted by Parliament on 6 October, 1297(25 Edward I.), in return for confirmation by King Edward of the two great charters. See vol. xxvii. of Lane, and Chesh. Record Society Pub., pp. 197, 213, et seq. JAMES HALL.

Lindum House, Nautwich.

LONDON CEMETERIES IN 1860 (10 th S. ii. 169, 296, 393, 496, 535 ; iii. 56, 133). MR. HARRY HEMS cites at 10 th S. ii. 394, as an example of a built-over burial-ground, the old Jones's Burial-Ground in Church Row, Islington.