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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… prepared, mainly in Switzerland and its neighbours, from WOOD SORREL, from which 70 LB of leaf would give about 5 OZ …
A Dictionary of London
… Essex Street - Exchange Buildings Essex Street West out of Bouverie Street to Temple Lane (P.O. Directory). Within the precinct …
A History of the County of Essex
… Archivist Mrs. M. S. Preston Mrs. P. V. Wawn R. G. E. Wood Esq. Officers Hon. County Secretary: W. H. Liddell Esq. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on piers of stone. The village consists principally of one street, well paved and lighted by means of a highway rate, … comprises by computation 3700 acres, of which 45 are wood, 150 rich pasture-land, and the remainder arable; the … in the picture-gallery are some exquisite carvings in wood, and several of the rooms contain paintings representing …
Survey of London
… Avenue was bounded on the north by Tyburn Road (now Oxford Street), on the east by Hog Lane (later Crown Street, now Charing Cross Road), on the south by the road from St. Giles's towards St. James's (later King Street, now Shaftesbury Avenue) and on the west by Colman …
Survey of London
… periphery of the area, around Clareville Grove, in Bute Street and in the streets called Hyde Park Gate, had any new … however, the boundary bore no relationship to the new street layout, and substantial revision took place when the …
Survey of London
… now within the site of Barker's store in Kensington High Street. 71 The following brief account, however, describes … to Upper Phillimore Place, on the north side of the High Street, and then, in the following year, across the road to a … his life. 83 By 1817 his professional office was in Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn. 84 The estate which he had inherited …
Survey of London
… centrally placed canted porch with a balcony above on its street front, and two flanking segmental bays to its garden …
Survey of London
… 37 The name Cromwell House, which has been perpetuated in street names in the area, owes its origin to a tradition that … for the unexecuted tower proposed for the centre of the street front of the Queen's College, Oxford, in 17089, 55 and … In the event this had very little effect on the subsequent street layout because the Commissioners for the Exhibition of …
Survey of London
… the parishes of St. Giles, Cripplegate, and St. Luke, Old Street. 159 In the mid eighteenth century part, at least, of … in 1851 when Thomas Dowbiggin, the freeholder of Bute Street, purchased the adjoining plot from its then owner … he was described as 'late of Brompton but now of Robert Street in the Adelphi'. 167 Although James is not listed …