Wallsend is a town in North Tyneside, England. It is named for being at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall. The town's historical industry is shipbuilding.
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Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England.
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Walsal is a market town in the West Midlands of England, near Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
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Vine Street is a street in the area of Saffron Hill in the modern borough of Camden. In Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, Saffron Hill is the site of Fagin's Den.
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OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS. (Volume 1)
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Likely refers to the gate entrance to Vauxhall Gardens, a Victorian pleasure garden located in Kennington, modern borough of Lambeth (London, England). At night, the Gardens were illuminated by thousands of gas lamps. The Gardens closed in 1859.
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Vauxhall Bridge is a bridge crossing the River Thames at Vauxhall and Pimlico. The original bridge on the site was finished in 1816 and the current bridge opened in 1906.
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Vauxhall is a district of South (London, England). Until 1889, when the County of London was created, it was part of Surrey. In the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, it was a mixed industrial and residential area with predominantly manual workers' homes. In the 1990s, it became home to a number of underground gay clubs, such as Crash, which opened up in the railway arches underneath Waterloo station. It is still home to many gay bars and nightclubs.
Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name used by the British for Tasmania, a self-governed island currently part of Australia. In the 19th century, Tasmania was colonized by the British and used for penal colonies. Britain stopped transporting to Van Diemen's Land in 1853.
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