Terror By Gaslight (2015)
“Her flat above the Hill Top Cafe faced squarely on to the street and, sitting in her chair by the window, she could spend all day surveying the scene.
At night, Highgate Road could be bleak and lonely, the gas-lit street lamps casting long shadows, but in daylight hours all was hustle and bustle. Hansom cabs taking businessmen to the City passed in the opposite direction to elegant carriages delivering the gentry to stately Kenwood House. Riders trotted their horses on their way to canter o...n the Heath. Pedestrians ambled to and from the Highgate Village shops, or headed west towards Jack Straw’s Castle, one of London’s more magnificent public houses. On a fine day some of the strollers would stop to gossip with friends, or to buy hot chestnuts from the man with the brazier.
Mrs Burnaby was used to the sight of adventurous youths risking their necks on ill-controlled bicycles: indeed, last week she had even seen one of the dangerous new horseless carriages spluttering past.MoreLess
At night, Highgate Road could be bleak and lonely, the gas-lit street lamps casting long shadows, but in daylight hours all was hustle and bustle. Hansom cabs taking businessmen to the City passed in the opposite direction to elegant carriages delivering the gentry to stately Kenwood House. Riders trotted their horses on their way to canter o...n the Heath. Pedestrians ambled to and from the Highgate Village shops, or headed west towards Jack Straw’s Castle, one of London’s more magnificent public houses. On a fine day some of the strollers would stop to gossip with friends, or to buy hot chestnuts from the man with the brazier.
Mrs Burnaby was used to the sight of adventurous youths risking their necks on ill-controlled bicycles: indeed, last week she had even seen one of the dangerous new horseless carriages spluttering past.MoreLess
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