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Old and New London
… after his escape from the Tower in 1618, took boat for Tilbury. That most poetical of all our poets, Edmund Spenser, …
Old and New London
… and the Blackwall and Woolwich, and the Woodford and the Tilbury branch lines diverge; and it is a ward of the parish …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… he was away a great deal. Sir Horatio Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury, apparently resided here for some years, his daughter … house of Mr. Fox, Great St. Bartholomew's'. Lady Vere of Tilbury and Lady Alice Hastings, both of this parish, were …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… thickness has accumulated since Roman times. Thus, at Tilbury (Essex), a formerly grass-grown surface covered with …
Old and New London
… same gentleman then proposed the tunnel from Gravesend to Tilbury, mentioned by us in the preceding chapter; but it was …
Old and New London
… construct a tunnel under the Thames between Gravesend and Tilbury; and in 1804 a similar work was actually begun …
Survey of London
… and West India Dock Company decided to build a dock at Tilbury, rather than call a halt to damaging competitive expansion. 140 Tilbury Dock opened in 1886, having absorbed more than twice … Docks were sold to offset some of the capital costs of Tilbury. 141 A further squeeze came with the need to follow …
Survey of London
… Poplar, Royal Victoria, Millwall, Royal Albert and Tilbury Docks on the north side, with additions to the Surrey …
Survey of London
… insufficiently enlarged. The South Dock was, excepting Tilbury, the deepest dock in the Port in the late nineteenth … Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons, then at work on a PLA lock at Tilbury, and work commenced in September 1927. 381 The three … It followed the slightly earlier and much larger lock at Tilbury in most of its particulars. The walls and invert were …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… see Grays Thurrock, Little Thurrock and West Thurrock. Tilbury, see East Tilbury and West Tilbury. …