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A History of the County of Middlesex
… parish contained the modern urban district of Potters Bar and a portion of High Barnet, also known as West Barnet or … of an inverted triangle, bounded on the north by Northaw and North Mimms, on the west by Ridge, on the south by Chipping Barnet (all in Herts.), and on the east by Enfield and Monken Hadley. The former …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… de Mandeville as a berewick of the manor of Edmonton, and in the time of King Edward it had belonged to Ansgar the … another Ernulf, 57 had regained possession by 1235-6 58 and from him it apparently passed to his brother Hugh. 59 It … family until 1483, when Sir Thomas Lewknor was attainted and his lands granted to Robert Scrope. 64 In 1484 Lewknor …
Survey of London
… the full width of the southernmost part of the estate and is bisected by South Audley Street. The north side west … Street nearly half of the ground between that street and the boundary of the estate formed the return frontage of … only with guttae. At the back they had wide curved bows instead of the canted ones of the earlier Nos. 412 …
Survey of London
… Southampton Street and Tavistock Street Area Wellington Street Wellington Street Nos. 2331 (odd) and 1826 (even) Wellington Street Of the present Wellington … Of this part, only the short section between Exeter Street and Tavistock Street was made at the same time as the more …
Survey of London
… Blackwall. Until relatively recently it was little known and little seen, being obscured by the nondescript industrial … gable-mansard roofs. Several buildings had large bays or bows jutting out over the river, which were a feature of many … In the centre of the east and north fronts are full-height bows whose windows command an even wider field of view. …
Survey of London
… north by the perimeter wall of the East India Export Dock and on the west by Blackwall Way. The southern and eastern boundaries now completely obliterated - are, respectively, the former London and Blackwall Railway and the southern arm of East India Dock …
Survey of London
… comprises mainly the strip of ground between Blackwall Way and Preston's Road, which was bounded on the north by Ditchburn Street and on the south by Yabsley Street (fig. 233). Much of this … rooms on a raised ground floor with large full-height bows facing the docks and the river (Plate 106b, 106c; fig. …
Survey of London
… the construction of the entrances to the West India Docks and the City Canal. One effect of the docks was that they … narrow strip between the dock company's land on the west and the river and Blackwall Yard to the east. Canal Dockyard … lowered to allow the dock to take large ships with high bows, as can be seen in the well-known photograph looking …
Survey of London
… of three volumes of the Survey of London, XXXVIII, XLI and XLII, which describe the part of the ancient parish (and subsequently metropolitan borough) of Kensington lying to … bay breaking forward between the porticoes. Segmental bows were not much favoured in southern Kensington (less than …
Survey of London
… Southern Millwall Drunken Dock and the Land of Promise Drunken Dock and the Land of Promise In the early eighteenth century the … they come up in little cockle-boats, almost under the bows of the great ship. In the yard, they take up positions …