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Survey of London
… elaborate of the various schemes put forward, with a criss-cross of roads in the middle of St. George's Fields and five … by the longer and incumbred way of the Strand and Charing Cross." 9 So many conflicting interests were involved that … parish of St. Saviour in 1774, for the formation of a new cross road from Borough High Street to Great Surrey Street …
Old and New London
… street." The village of St. Giles had its ancient stone cross, which seems to have stood near what is now the north …
Old and New London
… at the "stately mansion of the Northumberlands, at Charing Cross." It is amusing, at the distance of a century or more, …
Old and New London
… this lake the mob in the "Gordon Riots" of 1780 threw the keys of Newgate, which they had broken open and burnt. They …
Old and New London
… Valet. Some quarter of a mile to the westward of Charing Cross, there stood, in very early times, a hospital for … exchanging the regimental standard, and handing over the keys of the palace to the incoming commandant. Here each new … may suppose he believedand contained a portion of the true cross, which he probably did not believe. The chapel, as …
Survey of London
… former London Joint Stock Bank, c. 1872 No. 16, the former Cross Keys inn, was rebuilt in 18867 for Lovell & Christmas, …
Survey of London
… the livestock market in 1855; and the cattle market at Cow Cross, which flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth … Smithfield Bars; the Nottingham and Daventry carriers the Cross Keys, opposite Hicks' Hall; those from Bedford and …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… also placed over the window, on the outside of the south cross. One William Hutton is conjectured to have been one of … in the glass of one of the south-east windows of the south cross, and upon one of the pillars before the western … has been an addition made to the west side of the north cross: and which, with great probability, is supposed to have …
Survey of London
… in full plate armour, with the Order's eight-pointed cross on his breastplate and robe. His head rests on two … eight beatitudes symbolized by the points of the Order's cross. The north chapel windows, formed from the upper …