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Old and New London
… building, which abuts upon the Euston Road, facing Judd Street, was opened in 1873, and completed in the spring of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… class was largely dispossessed, in 1349 when the Black Death brought demographic disaster and the beginnings …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and water areas are also left very much to fancy, some street conveyancers adhering to the old definition of ponds … strong to sandy loam, mixed with sand and gravel, some black and fertile, some sharp and white. Chiswick has some … at Spitalfields, who cultivate in general on a light black soil owe their celebrity in the article of lettuces.' …
A History of the County of Oxford
… &c. 2. 166,000 acres of stonebrash round Blenheim, Black Bourton, Chesterton, from Witney to Burford, towards … if the season is propitious. The oats chiefly grown are black and white tartars, but of late years a good many different sorts, both black and white, have been introduced, such as 'Abundance,' …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… sown with the last crop soon wore out and gave way to black couch, or couchy bent. A young, tender-mouthed flock of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… crops had exhausted the stored fertility of the downs. On 'black land' 120 the land would not be good even for grass … kind was the long-eared Wiltshire-white, crossed with a black African, which was fattened up to 30 score. In summer …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… acreage is suggested by the grubbing of parts of the large Black Dog Woods, Chapmanslade, in 18689. 31 From Aldbourne it … disappearing from the London cheese-warerooms in Tooley Street, in face of competition from Cheddar and from American … 1912, 37. 'Rep. on London cheese-warerooms in Tooley Street', J.R.A.S.E. (2nd ser. xiv), 6879. Rep. Com. Agric. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… flow in steep-sided valleys, the land between rising at Black Knap on the Quantock ridge to 335 m. In the centre it … of the valley, was named in the 15th century. 11 Holcombe Street was recorded in the 18th century 12 and several …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… light glossy SILK made entirely of ORGANZINE, and often BLACK [Kerridge (1985)]. It attracted the interests of … [Acts (1692)], as a WROUGHT SILK [Acts (1698)], as a 'black plain silk' [Patents (1688)], and as TAFFETA [Rates … or BROAD, alamodes were also found as often WHITE as BLACK and occasionally as COLOURED. Since a glossy finish was …
A Dictionary of London
… Alban (St.), Wood Street - Alderman's Walk Alban (St.), Wood Street On the east side of Wood Street, at the corner of Little Love Lane (P.O. Directory). …