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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Wem, hundred of Pimhill, N. division of Salop, 3 miles (S. E. by E.) from Wem; containing 167 inhabitants. Besford … and extended by several charters, especially in 1572 by Queen Elizabeth, who, also, in 1579 assigned certain chantry … due to the crown; and in consequence of a petition to the queen, she remitted them during royal pleasure. The …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… for their own use. 2 In the Inquisition taken at St. John's House in Nottingham, the fourth of the nones of July, in 35 … that Thomas Markham, a great courtier and servant to Queen Elizabeth, had it; and before him little Sir John Byron … de Shirewood. Regist. de Novo loco, 91. Fin. 2 E. 3, m. S. Plac Forest. 8 E. 3, rot. 28, Esc. 33 E. 1, n. 14. …
The Environs of London
… on the east by Stratford-Bow; on the west by St. Leonard's, Shoreditch; and on the south by Christ-church, … of the Beggar of Bethnal-Green was written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth: the legend is told of the reign of Henry the … of Stepney had been divided by a former act (9 Queen Anne) into two equal portions. This division was by the act …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… hutments or mobile homes, 'prefabs', of which the L.C.C.'s first in East London were in Florida and Squirries streets. … Brady's Buildings in Barnet Grove (for Avebury estate), Queen's Buildings in Gosset Street (for Virginia estate), … 7 Bethnal Green and East London Housing Association Ltd., Queen Margaret Flats 1926, 8 Nag's Head 1933, acquired by …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS FROM 1837 TO 1875. 11 At Victoria's accession tradesmen's houses lined all the main roads in … leased out no. 21 Victoria Park Square as a store for the Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of the Tower Hamlets … new Westminster Street (later Baroness Road) driven from Queen's Place through Greengate Gardens to Hackney Road. 54 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… missioners. In 1881, of the 16.5 per cent of Bethnal Green's population who were not London born, the largest category, … family moved to Hoxton, then to Bacon Street, in 1902 to Queen's Buildings in Gosset Street, and in 1904 to Gibraltar … and Prince's (Chambord) streets, six model dwellings (Queen's Buildings) were erected in 1884 and another two in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… as skilled and unskilled artisans, compared with Booth's 51 per cent. At the ends of the social scale, only 2 per … over housing conditions in 1919 led to the involvement of Queen Mary. 70 In 1922 the L.C.C. proposed to clear over 7 … and opened its first block of 15 flats, the four-storeyed Queen Margaret Flats designed by Ian Hamilton, in St. Jude's …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1703 or 1720. 98 In 1722 the trustees of Parmiter's charity purchased 4½ a. of waste on the west side of … copyhold estates, although it was contemplated on Sotheby's land. 5 More sustained activity began in 1786, when Parmiter's charity leased the whole estate to Wilmot, who built six …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of early Stepney charities, 31 including Prisca Coburn's (1701) and Dame Sarah Pritchard's (1718), and shared in Fuller's, Bowry's, and Pemel's … ii. 36. G.L.R.O., C93/15301, 15334. Above, educ. Probably Queen Adelaide's char., above, pub. svces. L.C.C. Lond. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the Minories (Peter Smith). 77 It was probably the latter's son William Smith, a London merchant, who engaged a … Dog Row and Red Cow Lane, the most southerly, Walker's, opposite what was to become Darling Row; between were two … houses were built opposite them by Flaw, a bricklayer, in Queen's (or Charlotte) Row, 95 which by 1783 formed a …