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Old and New London
… Bethnal Green MuseumSir Richard Wallace's CollectionNichol Street and its PopulationThe French Hospital in Bethnal Green … represented in this part of the great collection. "Nichols Street," says a newspaper writer of 1862, writing of Bethnal Green in its coarser aspects, "New Nichols Street, Half Nichols Street, Turvile Street, comprising …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the scheme for the estate, named Minerva after the central street and consisting of 8 three- or four-storeyed blocks in … A still larger scheme was revived for the so called Turin Street or Squirries Street site north of Bethnal Green Road. 23 Compulsory …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green, and Hackney roads, Brick Lane, and Sclater Street. Similar houses occupied the Nag's Head Field … gardens near Bonner Lane. On Markhams north of Lamb Street (later part of Three Colts Lane), Lamb Gardens, Place, … in the existing places and squares and in Chester Street, which ran through the centre of the area by 1850 when …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in a rented room in a three-storeyed tenement in Boundary Street on the borders of the Nichol. His father kept a public … in the 1890s the family moved to Hoxton, then to Bacon Street, in 1902 to Queen's Buildings in Gosset Street, and in 1904 to Gibraltar Buildings, a tenement block …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Teesdale streets. 60 In 1919 returning troops, finding the street markets taken over by aliens, petitioned for a market … were five condemned areas, the most notorious being Brady Street. 69 A speech by the mayor at a meeting over housing … of the Shoreditch border. 72 The scheme, called Teale Street, was drawn up in 1931 under the Act of 1930 to provide …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… for 77 years. They had constructed Suffolk Place and Felix Street by 1812 and Clare Street and Barossa and Felix places by 1819, when the estate … agreement of 1807 with Benjamin Bond of Hackney. 15 Temple Street formed the eastern boundary of Rush Mead by 1821, 16 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… In 1720 they leased a site at the eastern end of St. John Street from Elizabeth Carter for 600 years at a peppercorn … given to the almsmen by 1819. In 1838 the site in St. John Street was sold to the G.E.R. and land was leased in Gloucester (later Parmiter) Street where a new school and three almshouses on either …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Roads. A pre-Roman road following a route from Oxford Street and Old Street to Old Ford and Essex crossed Bethnal Green, probably … referred to in 1587 as the highway from Shoreditch to Mare Street 21 and, as Collier's Lane, dated from 1439 or earlier. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… John Jenkins of Whitechapel and Thomas Oliver of Thomas Street, from 1808 to 1813. Houses were built fronting west on … Sir Robert Darling, a local official of 1769, 7 and Lisbon Street (existing by 1811) 8 ran westward to join North Street and Collingwood Street ran northward. William Green, a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and also took leases from other estates along Green Street. Richard Corker occupied 23 a. of Bishop's Hall in the … for the City. In 1848 one of the largest, in Wood Street, had 40-50 cows, 49 and William Brooks the older and … in Punderson's Gardens. 52 There was a cowyard in Bacon Street, 53 where there were two dairies and cowhouses …