For other public buildings, municipal and national,
see local *^ Guides " ; also for prisons {Newgate^ etc.) ;
markets {Smithfield^ Covent Garden^ Billingsgate^ Col-
umbia^ etc.) ; hospitals {St. Bartholomew* s^ the oldest
in London, Bethlehem or "Bedlam," St, Thoma^s^
Guy'Sy Foundlings etc.) ; inns of court {Temple^ Lin-
coln' s^ GrafSy etc.); royal palaces {Buckingham^ St
James s Whitehall Bangueting-house, etc.); mansions
of the nobility {Holland House^ Bridgewater House^
etc.) ; colleges and schools { University of London^ King^s
College^ Westminster School^ St. BauTs, Charterhouse^
Chrisfs Hospital^ etc.) ; thecUres and other places of
tmusement^ etc., etc.
Monuments. Of these may be mentioned the
Monument^ Fish Street Hill, erected from Wren's de-
sign to commemorate the Great Fire of 1666, from the
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clear weather ; the York Column^ Carlton House Gar
dens, which affords a good prospect of the West End
(open in summer from 12 to 4) ; the Nelson Column^
in Trafalgar Square, with Landseer's colossal lions at
the base ; the National Monument to the Prince Consort^
or " Albert Memorial," in Hyde Park, a magnificent
Gothic structure, with a profusion of sculpture about
it ; the Crimean Memorial {Foot-guards') in Waterloo
Place ; and another Crimean one ( Westminster School)
near the west end of Westminster Abbey. Cleopatra^ s
Needle^ set up in 1878, is on the Thames Embankment,
midway between Waterloo and Charing Cross bridges.
Cemeteries. Kensal Green Cemetery^ on the Harrow
Road, may be reached by omnibus from the Edgeware
Road. Here are the graves of Allan Cunningham,
Sydney Smith, Tom Hood, Thackeray, Brunei the
engineer, and many other persons of note.
