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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… York, in about 1852. On the E. bank of the Foss the wall and river enclose a lozenge-shaped area with Walmgate as the main axis and the gates of Walmgate Bar, Fishergate Bar, and Fishergate … replaced in stone. Internally the wallwalk is carried on groups of segmental arches, 10 ft. wide and 5 ft. to 8 ft. …
A Survey of London
… but without the Walles, is called Faringdon without, and was of old time part of the other Faringdon within, … vntill the 17. of Richard the second, that it was diuided and made twaine by the names of Faringdon infra and Faringdon extra, as is afore shewed. Gold lane.; Lither …
Survey of London
… Place, Lecky Street (formerly Elm Mews), Regency Terrace and Nos. 110132 (even) Fulham Road (formerly Elm Terrace). … late-Georgian houses amidst the predominant Italianate and Queen Anne of this area of South Kensington. As a compact … link Fulham Road with Selwood Place, leaving room for two groups of three houses to lace Fulham Road on each side of …
Survey of London
… 17939 The building of the West India Docks between 1799 and 1806 marked the culmination of a campaign which had begun … vessels were second only in size to the East Indiamen and, because of the prevailing winds, were in the Thames for … Millwall Docks until 1920. 161 The PLA created five dock groups, the West India, East India and Millwall Docks forming …
Survey of London
… the Thames in the early nineteenth century for the loading and unloading of cargo were constructed in response to … century the increase in London's trade, both overseas and coastal, was producing overcrowding in the river and … of convoys for merchantmen meant that vessels arrived in groups, rather than singly. Other interests that had to be …
Survey of London
… The West India Docks Offices, works and housing Offices, Works and Housing The Ledger Building (Dock Offices), North Quay, … the north quay. This was useful warehouse space, however, and in 1802 it was intended to site the dock offices outside …
Survey of London
… the West India Docks were those designed for the storage and handling of goods. London's need for secure, convenient and regularly disposed dockside warehouses within high walls … highly expressive of well-regulated, rationally conducted and, above all, secure commerce (Plate 148a). Initially, …
Survey of London
… India Docks The buildings: warehouses Warehouses Nos 24 and 68 Warehouses, North Quay, Import Dock. In 1799 Ralph … planning centred on the north quay of the Import Dock, and further development was to be 'as occasion may require'. … The north quay was to house 80,000 hogsheads of sugar and 25,000 casks of rum in warehouses 215ft by 82ft 6in., …
Survey of London
… of the West India Docks that were constructed between 1800 and 1806 were the Import and Export Docks, and the Blackwall and Limehouse basins, … was persuaded that a sale would limit losses, and two groups of merchants offered to buy it for conversion into a …
Old and New London
… hard to saysuch space the city wins Where country ends and where the town begins." " Prolusions Paulin," 1876. … Prefatory RemarksThe Building of the DistrictDe Moret, and his Flying-machineNature of the Soil of Belgravia"Slender Billy"The Spanish Monkey "Mukako" and Tom Cribb's Fighting DogsThe Grosvenor FamilyEnormous …