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Survey of London
… This small speculative venture was initiated by Thomas Flight, perhaps Victorian London's most notorious 'slumlord', … time to control as many as 18,000 houses. 70 It shows that Flight sometimes built new tenements as well as taking over existing houses. In 1868 Flight obtained a lease of two substantial properties on the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in the 19th century an approach from the north-west by a flight of 208 steps descending and ascending the valley of a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… inlaid now filled with carved modern heads; stairs in one flight up to a landing of oval form with moulded string, … and some of the rooms retain portions of panelling. One flight of the secondary staircase is original and has a … with turned balusters. The middle bay contains a flight of seven steps. ConditionGood. (37). Greycoat …
Old and New London
… and Prudence. On the top is a figure of Fame taking her flight, and resting only on her toe. This illustrious …
Old and New London
… under the dormitory; the latter lofty, and containing the flight of steps by which the raised level of the Chapter …
Old and New London
… House of Commons. In the south-east corner of the Hall, a flight of steps leads to the beautiful little chapel of St. …
Old and New London
… he adds, "is a mixture of brick and stone, with a broad flight of steps leading up to the door, which is between four …
Old and New London
… it was easily distinguished from its neighbours by a flight of stone steps, which James II. permitted the cruel … one storey higher than the wings. The entrance is by a flight of steps to a porch in three divisions, and is …
Old and New London
… of a chancel, with pentagonal apse, approached by a lofty flight of steps; a nave, with a lofty open timber roof, …