Brentford

O’er all the land of Brentford

The Royal Oak, New Road, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8

I’m lord, and eke of Kew:

JCDecaux, Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8

I’ve three-per-cents and five-per-cents;

The Butts, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8

My debts are but a few;

Brentford Boatyard, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8

And to inherit after me

HG Hampton's Brentford High Street, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8

I have but children two.

Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8

From William Makepeace Thackeray’s The King of Brentford’s Testament

Between the Decks

Your Molly has never been false, she declares,
Since the last time we parted at Wapping Old Stairs;

Shadwell Basin, Wapping, Tower Hamlets, E1W

When I said that I would continue the same,
And I gave you the ‘bacco-box marked with my name.

Garnet Street, Wapping, Tower Hamlets, E1W

When I passed a whole fortnight between decks with you,
Did I e’er give a kiss, Tom, to one of your crew?

Wapping Project, Wapping, Tower Hamlets, E1W

To be useful and kind to my Thomas I stay’d,
For his trousers I washed, and his grog too I made.

From William Makepeace Thackeray’s Old Wapping Stairs