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Survey of London
… and the Manor House and farmhouse on the west side of Earl's Court Road (see page 239) at the heart of the market gardens of Earl's Court Farm which spread over the remaining land. In early … Art Department and Superintendent of the South Kensington Museum, he described himself as a 'Civil Servant …
Survey of London
… on the east by what is now the roadway of St. Mary Abbot's Place, on the south by the line of Pembroke Gardens, and on … had wharves on the Thames, the Medway and at the Regent's Park canal basin. 168 Under the terms of their agreement … during the formative years of the South Kensington Museum, stayed with Siemens in 18535. Kenneth Grahame, author …
A History of the County of York
… the periphery of the built-up city centre. St. George's Close, in the promontory between the Ouse and the Foss, and the site of St. Mary's Abbey, outside the city walls on the north-west, remained … alterations to its own property—to widen Lendal Hill (now Museum Street) in 1781, for example. 29 It permitted, and …
Survey of London
… the defensive for the first time, and after Lloyd George's budget proposals of 1909, the Parliament Act of 1911 and … 1 Views of this kind were not widely held in the 1870's, but fifty years later they seemed almost commonplace; and … mural being, however, removed to the Victoria and Albert Museum. 65 At Camelford House, which with Somerset House and …
Survey of London
… of Harrington Road and from the Victoria and Albert Museum to Gloucester Road, was all at one time the property … practical, and avowedly directed to furthering the nation's prosperity. Until the early years of this century, and … under lease. Outside the main rectangle, west of Queen's Gate or south of Cromwell Road, they conform to the …
Survey of London Monograph
… to the rest of the building. Reference to Mr. Pennell's drawing ( frontispiece), or to the bird's-eye view (pl. 2, pp. 4, 5) and still more to Gribelin's … the list of his works See above page 14. Map Room British Museum. See also an interesting set of dock plans of 1698. …
Survey of London
… the footpaths of Exhibition Road, Cromwell Road and Queen's Gate. The gigantic structure was to disappear unregretted … in succession to that of 1851 did not, in the late 1850's, require elaborate justification: the recurrence of … Road) frontage, rather as in Fowke's Scottish Industrial Museum in Edinburgh (now the Royal Scottish Museum, plans …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… of 16 ft. 6 in., or 48 ft. in all. 1 Though Rahere's work is shown by the measured drawings to have been set out … will be seen by reference to the plan above, p. 3. 5 Coney's engraving made for Caley and Ellis's edition of Dugdale in … and two Norman capitals, all of which are now in the museum in the cloisters, and the matrix of a brass now fixed …
Old and New London
… Inquiry into the State of the Fleet PrisonHogarth's Picture on the SubjectThe Poet Thomson's Eulogy of Mr. OglethorpeThe Fleet Prison before and after … collector on this subject exists at the British Museum; he has illustrated a small poem called "The Humours …
Survey of London
… Middle Ages and reaches forward to the present day. London's hospitals were famous, and it was singularly appropriate … in the 12th century, Bedlam (for the insane), Christ's Hospital (for children), Charterhouse, the 17th century … (18271837) and secretary (18281850) of the British Museum. Chaplain to the hospital (18291863). Also his wife …