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Old and New London
… in niches, all of freestone, and encompassed with handsome iron grates. This statue was made and erected at the sole … not pots, but tanks. The stewing range is a long, broad iron pavement laid down over a series of furnaces. The spits are huge cages formed of iron bars, and turned by machinery. At the close of the …
The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations [etc]
… exports to America were coals, crown glass, bottles, lead, iron, and woollen goods; and the chief import appears to have …
The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations [etc]
… O. Corbet THE MANUSCRIPTS OF SIR WALTER O. CORBET, OF ACTON REYNALD, BART. At Acton Reynald, Shropshire, the seat of Sir Walter Orlando … fitz Aer, knts., Rob. Corbet of Morton, Reyner lord of Acton, Philip lord of Penynton, Roger of Preston below …
A History of the County of Oxford
… inhabited at an early date: traces have been found of an Iron Age and Romano-British settlement beside the Roman road … a stucco front, sash windows, a moulded cornice, and iron balustrade railings. No. 30 was refronted with … alteration has been the replacement of the regency iron balusters and mahogany handrail of the staircase by oak …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… 1667 11 July Choke, J. 1667 23 July Jones, W. 1667 1 Aug. Acton, G. 1667 1 Oct. Savage, W. 1667 6 Dec. Bruser, A. 1669 …
Old and New London
… the entire width of the excavation, 240 feet, on wrought-iron stanchions. On these main girders cross girders were … of the building. In these foundations were five miles of iron girding, carried on no fewer than 180 wroughtiron … semi-circular heads of the arches are filled in with rich iron scrolls, which let in the light and air freely. The …
Survey of London
… as a quid pro quo for the election to the board of Acton Smee Ayrton, MP (181686), champion of the swindled …
Survey of London
… It, too, was utterly standard, with cruciform-section cast-iron columns. Many of the early single-storey warehouses … ridge skylights and rested on timber trusses with wrought-iron rods (Plates 56a, 58a; fig. 130). 118 Millwall Docks, … in 1884. Duckham generally used cruciform-section cast-iron columns and timber beams supporting 4in.-thick boards, …
Survey of London
… c Millwall Dock Graving Dock The 'horn' or Y-shaped cast-iron quay bollards that survive around the India and Millwall … part' of the works and progress was slow. A contract for iron lock gates, sluices, capstans and related hydraulic … discharge to scour the gate platforms. The massive wrought-iron gate leafs were each 42ft 3in. wide by 34ft high and …
Old and New London
… inches broad and 6 inches risers. Over the capital is an iron balcony encompassing a cippus, or meta, 32 feet high, … the watchman had his head turned, nimbly climbed over the iron railing, tucked her clothes tight between her knees, and … may record their innocency, and may make themselves as an iron pillar or brazen wall (as I may allude to Jer. i. 18) …