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Survey of London: Volumes 33 and 34, St Anne Soho
These volumes describe Soho, the most famous of London's cosmopolitan quarters. The area covered is defined largely by Wardour Street, Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, and includes Soho Square, Leicester Square, and part of Cambridge Circus. Many of the streets here were first built up in the late 17th century under the building speculators Dr Nicholas Barbon and Richard Frith. Some fine Georgian houses are described and illustrated, for example No. 1 Greek Street and 76 Dean Street. Many well-known West End theatres are also found here.
Survey of London
… of speculative building going back to the era of Nicholas Barbon fifty years before, but tempered by modest innovations …
A History of the County of Durham
… be made.' There was in the same place a house formerly Ede Barbon's, which was then waste and out of occupation. Ralph …
Survey of London
… had been granted to Frith in April 1677, Dr. Nicholas Barbon, the famous building speculator, had unsuccessfully … When he saw Frith trenching out the ground for building Barbon attempted 'to crosse the designe' by purchasing the … ground, although he had no right to do so, but after Barbon had acquired the sub-leases Frith was compelled, for …
Survey of London
… was sold by Sir John Lowther and John Cozance to Nicholas Barbon and others 80 and to Commissioners appointed under an … side of the churchyard, and new houses were erected by Barbon on the east side of the lane. At the beginning of the …
Survey of London
… of the prominent building speculator, Nicholas Barbon, who, Georgirenes relates, 'as soon as he was … at his own charge'. Where this was is not known, although Barbon was at that time about to lay out the Military Ground … page 383). Georgirenes represents himself as reporting Barbon's promise to the bishop, whose goodwill led him to …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… messuage in Churchtown was in 1582 in dispute between John Barbon and John Kellet, &c.; Ducatus Lanc. (Rec. Com.), iii, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… John Winter 47 Walter Frost d. L. Shaw 2 July 1722 Thomas Barbon 48 Francis Charteris d. J. Winter 7 Sept. 1737 Thomas Winder, B.A. 49 Edmund Starkie d. T. Barbon 4 May 1781 Josias Lambert, M.A. 50 Hon. Francis …
Survey of London
… Street in the late 1680's, under the aegis of Nicholas Barbon, who held a forty-six-year leasehold interest … acquired by his rival in building development, Nicholas Barbon. 3 In 1679 Frith's rights in Cooke's Croft and … subsequently a judge of some note, was acting in trust for Barbon, and covenanted 'to build thereon substantially'. …
Survey of London
… Neale, the building speculator), Mr. Barebon (Dr. Nicholas Barbon), Sir Christopher Wren and Mr. Kille-grew, specifying … to have reserved for their use the money to be paid by Dr. Barbon for the purchase of Well Close and the Old Artillery Ground. 60 Barbon was characteristically slow in paying the purchase …