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Survey of London: Volume 45, Knightsbridge
This volume describes a district today synonymous with wealth and smartness. The area covered includes the old thoroughfare of Knightsbridge itself, and the triangular swathe of land to its west, north of Brompton Road, bounded on the north by Hyde Park and on the west by Exhibition Road. In addition to the hotels, shops and fashionable houses and apartments for which the area is known today, the volume also describes the fabric of Knightsbridge's more diverse past: the medieval hamlet, straggling out along the road to Kensington; the string of aristocratic mansions, such as Kingston House, that in the eighteenth century lined the south side of the road west of Knightsbridge Green; the famous Tattershall's horse-mart at Knightsbridge Green; the Japanese Native Village of the mid-1880s, from which W. S. Gilbert drew inspiration for 'The Mikado'; and Whistler's legendary Peacock Room at 49 Princes Gate, the greatest of all Aesthetic interiors. Also included is Sir Basil Spence's Knightsbridge Barracks, still providing a Brutalist modern concrete home to the military pageantry of the Horse Guards.
Survey of London: Volume 41, Brompton
This, the third of the Survey's four volumes devoted to Kensington, describes the southernmost part of the old parish, covering both sides of Brompton Road and then continuing westward between Old Brompton Road and Fulham Road as far as Brompton Cemetery.
Survey of London Monograph
… Vice-Admiral Thomas Cochrane. Helen, bap. 1829, buried at Brompton, 1895. William Capel, b. 1832. Marion Georgina, died … Service (18811900). William Capel, b. 1860, bur. Brompton, 1892. Arthur Herbert, b. 1861, bur. Ickenham, 1874. …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Lincs., cm (181922). [D] Thompson, George, Brunswick Pl., Brompton, London, chair and sofa maker (1826). [D] Thompson, … Thompson at this address. Thompson, J., 2 Brunswick Pl., Brompton Sq., London, chairmaker (182627). [D] Thompson, J., … papers, D/LO/E 484, vol. 1, 182941] Thompson, W. L., 5 Brompton Rd, London, furniture ironmonger (1835). [D] …
A History of the County of Somerset
… HELD IN SUMERSETA' 12 The king holds Brunetone [King's Brompton]. Ghida held it T.R.E., and paid geld for 10 hides. … estate ( terra) used to belong to ( jacuit in) Burnetone [Brompton Regis], the king's manor, with the ferm ( firma). …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 15 shillings. 64 Turgis holds of W[illiam] Burnetone [Brompton Ralph]. Brictric held (it) T.R.E. and paid geld for … lost 0 2 3 11 2 3 129 1 0 147 In the Hundred of Brunetone (Brompton Ralph) are 5 hides. Thence the king has 24 shillings …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Bologne, with proper dignity. Lel. Coll. vol. i. p. 209. Brompton, col. 733. Thorn, col, 1766. Weever, p. 50, who …
Survey of London
… who took alternate plots. 95 William Stickland of Brompton, builder, may also have been involved, as Willis …
Survey of London
… of the other large holding owned by the Alexanders, their Brompton estate around Alexander Square and Thurloe Square, … The whole was in possession of Samuel Hutchins of Brompton, nurseryman, scion of a prosperous family of farmers … as the lines hacked off a sizeable piece of his Brompton estate near Thurloe Square for the building of South …
Survey of London
… bounded on the north-west by Thurloe Place, on the east by Brompton Road, and on the south (approximately) by the … Brace died in 1760 leaving the bulk of her property in Brompton and South Kensington to Harris Thurloe Brace, her … being in Knightsbridge, were in fact on the south side of Brompton Road with a frontage to that highway extending (in …