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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… to favor their infamous designs, destroyed all the materials provided for the haven, and in the night … was sent down to make an estimate of the charges of building a new haven, which he calculated would cost 5510 l. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… a wall, as the old wall is frequently mentioned at the building of the new one, and is said to have furnished part of the materials of the new wall. The first buildings are supposed … being at last entirely stopped up, the inhabitants kept building so fast to the south, that had not the town been …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the plague, by which they had gained very great sums. The building of the wall was succeeded by the sinking of a moat … to the top, making a strong rampire of earth and other materials, to the breadth of forty feet from the walls. This …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… had printed proposals dispersed through the kingdom, for building a new town on the west side of the haven, and had …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… The church is interesting as a complete 12th-century building with an apse; among the fittings the early … brick and the roofs are covered with tiles and slates. The building is of very irregular plan but practically the whole … varied designs. Boleyn Castle. The Tower (9) is a detached building S. of the house and is of three stages. It is of red …
A History of the County of Essex
… of a church there before the Conquest, though the present building of St. Mary Magdalene is thought to be no earlier … 49 In the 1880s Reynolds was partly responsible for the building of the new churches of All Saints, Forest Gate, and … 1903 and 1939, while the nonconformists did little new building and closed several churches, the Anglicans went on …
A History of the County of Essex
… during the next decade as the land was cut up for building, though one or two small farms survived longer. 28 … is one reason why there was relatively little residential building at Beckton and North Woolwich. Another reason is … demolition of dwellings. At Beckton, no doubt, residential building was also discouraged by atmospheric pollution. The …