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A History of the County of Essex
… Lea. 59 The Iron Bridge, spanning the Lea at Barking Road, Canning Town, was built in 1810 by the Commercial Road … used as such after the 17th century. 76 The development of Canning Town and Silvertown, from the 1840s, transformed the …
A History of the County of Essex
… AND ALL SAINTS, Barking Road, was opened in 1859, and Canning Town became an independent parish in 1870. The … was greatest there, and smallest in the slums of Canning Town, Silvertown, and Victoria Docks. None of the … and rebuilding, especially at Forest Gate and Canning Town, that were not altogether unwelcome. The free …
A History of the County of Essex
… Bridge (later Stratford Market) station to Barking Road, Canning Town. In 1847 it was extended to North Woolwich and … the service. The Victoria Park trains were extended to Canning Town in 1895. A branch from Custom House to Beckton … Manor Park. 16 In 1886 also the company opened a line from Canning Town along Barking Road to the Greengate, Plaistow, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Charles Mare (181598), founder of the Thames Ironworks at Canning Town 23 and Arnold F. Hills (18571927), a later … later the Royal Albert, music hall, Victoria Dock Road, Canning Town. 55 It was opened about 1875 by Charles Relf, … association with Theatre Workshop, met at Mansfield House, Canning Town, until 1966, when it was transferred to …
Old and New London
… Here, almost side by side, rest the ashes of George Canning, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston, Sir G. Cornewall … glory unknown to any former age." Close by the statue of Canning are two magnificent monuments to the old Dukes of …
Old and New London
… Houses of Parliament, is a fine bronze statue of George Canning, standing upon a granite pedestal. It was executed by … King Street and the north door of the Abbey. Soon after Canning's statue was put up in all its verdant freshness, the … is colossal), said, "I don't think this is very like Canning; he was not so large a man." "No, my lord," replied …
Old and New London
… of hostelries; and so the "needy knife-grinder" of Canning was neither the only nor the latest toper who has … and political circles, members of which were Pitt, Canning, Lord Liverpool, and the Marquis of Wellesley. In …
Old and New London
… of modern portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Those of Canning, Wellington, &c., are there, and a variety of others …
Old and New London
… houses which were so familiar to Spencer Perceval, George Canning, and Lord Liverpool are still standing at the farther …