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Survey of London
… Estate. 110 In the eighteenth century the Blue Posts Tavern stood on the south side of Limehouse Causeway at its … a long street frontage. The Blue Posts, with the Railway Tavern and Jamaica Tavern, was well placed to serve labourers and others passing …
Survey of London
… 2 and 4), was Joseph Sage, a plasterer. He insured the new tavern in 1726 for 400. 82 According to Pinks, the landlord …
Old and New London
… "Lady Chapel," which hitherto stood here, and also a tavern that adjoined it, and erected on their site the … is that five or six gentlemen who had dined together at a tavern afterwards paid a visit to the royal vault. Returning to the tavern, their conversation turned upon apparitions and a …
Old and New London
… tower, or a part of it, was afterwards converted into a tavern, which bore the sign of the "Three Tuns;" and its … of Westminster. In the Great Sanctuary was formerly a tavern called the "Quaker." Pepys, on the 3rd of August, … the "Quaker"a somewhat unusual godfather for a sinful tavern. This house was pulled down only in the beginning of …
Old and New London
… much (it has been wittily remarked) "as the 'Devil' Tavern adjoined the Temple." It is comically recorded in the …
Old and New London
… they were enabled, by the profits of her play, to set up a tavern in Westminster." It is devoutly to be hoped that this …
Old and New London
… HOUSE. ( From a Drawing by F. W. Archer.) THE OLD "COCK" TAVERN. ( From an Original Drawing in the possession of F. G. … back as the reign of Edward III. He also says that at this tavern the workmen were paid during the building of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… fanlights enriched with ornament in relief. (26) Chapelhay Tavern was built as a pair of houses; the walls have been …