I'm gathering here lots of the sources, links, books etc that inspired me to dig up Worms from the sewer of my imagination. Lots of bits are true, many others inspired by real events. The Slang is adopted and adapted from contemporary sources (see particularly the fantastic slang pages on victorianlondon.org). What else? Do ask, if you want to know the source of anything particular.

Best sites

Map of London in Worms Time
VictorianLondon.org: more information than anyone needs
CharlesDickensPage
London Books, for all you London obsessives

Eurocrime for all you mystery obsessives

Good Exhibits

on now at the Museum of London and the British Library: Maps

Top Books

London Under London, by Trench & Hillman
The London Underworld, by Henry Mayhew (edition of highlights by Quennell)

Maps

1854
1859
1860
London Sewers
Metropolitan Plans

London General - sorry, some links copy & paste for now

www.victorianlondon.org
http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/
www.storyoflondon.com
www.marylebone.net/history
Illustrated London News
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/londonindex.html
http://mysite.freeserve.com/arthurlloyd/Timeline.htm

London Places

http://www.victorianlondon.org/transport/eustonstation.htm
http://www.touruk.co.uk/london_sights/albertmemorial1.htm
Great Globe of James Wyld
Hospital for Sick Children
David Rich, Tower Hamlets History On Line

Punch

http://mysite.freeserve.com/arthurlloyd2/punch/Jan1863.htm
http://mysite.freeserve.com/arthurlloyd2/CP.htm

Hydraulics

Mike & Bondi's discovery
www.cairndemon.co.uk/wapping/conductpress3.htm

Sewers

http://www.swopnet.com/engr/londonsewers/londontext1.html
Thames Tunnel, 10-11-1827
http://www.touruk.co.uk/london_museums/brunelengine_museum1.htm
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/thamestunnel.html

Tube/ London Underground

www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/
www.trainweb.org/tubeprune
www.davros.org/rail/
ADAM WOOD: http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/tubes.html
SAMANTHA LADART: http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1989-0/ladart.htm
www.thetube.com
www.londontransport.co.uk/tfl/
www.ltmuseum.co.uk
Birth of U-ground Railways: http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/learning/online_resources/ecobus_omnibus/pg/1851a.htm

Railways

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/iln/ilnhome.html
http://freespace.virgin.net/owston.tj/hudson.htm

Jack the Ripper

http://www.casebook.org/

Mary Ann Brough

http://www.londonancestor.com/street/str-199.htm

SLANG

For beggars’ cant / costermongers’ cant / argot / thieves’ Latin
see Victorian London slang dictionary at: www.victorianlondon.org
Polari - Hugh Young's Lexicon of Polari: http://members.aol.com/frij/polglos.html

Books

RAILWAY

"London's Metropolitan Railway" by Alan A Jackson, ISBN 0-7153-8839-8, (pub David & Charles, 1986)

London's Disused Underground Stations - J E Connor

"London's Underground" by H. F. Howson

Alexander Edmonds, History of the Metropolitan District Railway, London Transport, 1973

Alan A Jackson, London's Metropolitan Railway, David & Charles, 1986

Illustrated News of the World, 3 April 1858. in

Barker F, Jackson P. London -- 2000 Years of a City and Its People, 1974.

LONDON

"London Labour and the London Poor" Henry Mayhew - (4 volumes, 1850s-60s, abridged version by Quennell) - a journalist friend of Dickens’ who interviewed thousands of poor Londoners, most of the beautifully grim bits of Dickens’ London are built from Mayhew's work.

"London: A Pilgrimage" Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dore (recent Dover reprint)

Notes from Old & New London by Edward Walford, M.A. in five volumes at least

A History of London, Robert Gray

The Wonderful Story of London (Odham’s)

London: A Social History, Roy Porter

A Biography of London, Peter Ackroyd

'The Face Of London' by Harold P. Clunn 1956

Communication of Cholera, John Snow, 1855.

Dwellings of the Poor in Bethnal Green, Illustrated London News, 24th October 1863

Down East, Gaslight Wanderings. No. III, "The Metropolitan", 14th September 1872.

MISCELLANEOUS

The Victorian House, Judith Flanders

A Social History of Cricket, Derek Birley

A People’s History of the World, Chris Harman

MAPS

Stanford's Library Map of London and its Suburbs. Published by Edward Stanford, 6, Charing Cross, London, February 15, 1862.

Mylne RW. Map of the Contours of London and Its Environs, showing the Districts and Areas supplied by the Nine Metropolitan Water Companies, Published for the Author by Edward Stanford, Charing Cross, London. Engraved and Printed from Stone by Waterlow and Sons, 1856.