References
Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
1660
1661
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1662
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Old Swan (stairs)
Map
The overlays that highlight 17th century London features are approximate and derived from Wenceslaus Hollar’s maps:
- Built-up London – London before the Fire
- City of London wall and Great Fire damage – London after the Fire
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3 Annotations
First Reading
Brian G McMullen • Link
The Rocque map reference is:
http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/Se…
Interestingly, the detail of the map does not put the stairs directly across from Old Swan Lane.
Geoff • Link
Another map, drawn 1658, with a boat waiting at Old Swan. http://www.oldlondonmaps.com/newc…
Second Reading
Bill • Link
Swan Stairs, or, The Old Swan, Upper Thames Street, a celebrated landing-place on the Middlesex side of the river Thames, a little "above bridge," where people used to land and walk to the other side of old London Bridge, rather than run the risk of what was called "shooting the bridge." In 1441, when the Duchess of Gloucester did penance at Christchurch by Aldgate, she landed at these stairs and walked the rest of the way.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.