BRIDGE FOOT 7 



Bridge, so maii}^ were the rotting skulls that the 

 SoutliAvark gate-house wore not so much the appearance 

 of an entry into the capital of a civilised kingdom 

 as that of a doorwa}^ to some Giant Blunderbore's 

 bloodstained castle. 



" Bridge Foot " was the name of the Southwark 



THE " OEOEGE.' 



end of London Bridge. It was a narrow lane leading 

 to Southwark High Street, paved with knobbly stones 

 and walled in with tall houses. Bridge Foot is a thing 

 of the past, and London Bridge Station stands on the 

 site of it. " High Street, Borough," too, is very 

 different from not only meditcval days, but even 

 from coaching times. The many old inns that used 

 to front toward the street, dating their prosperity 



