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Survey of London
… per annum, which enabled him to live in some splendour at Norlands, the capital messuage at the south-east corner of the estate, near the site of the … 1844, were in course of completion in 1850 by Mr. Glenn of Islington, and were not all occupied until 1856. St. Ann's …
Old and New London
… 1we have on our left the districts of Hoxton and Islington, and on our right that of Bethnal Green. Stretching … unbuilt upon, with the exception of a couple of houses at the corner of the roadway leading to the hamlet of … and a roadside public-house called the "Nag's Head," at the bottom of a narrow thoroughfare called Mutton Lane, …
Old and New London
… is a hamlet which belonged originally to the parish of Islington; and it received its name from being situated in … new cattle-market, which was to supersede the old market at Smithfield. The new market was planned, and the various … of Mr. J. B. Bunning, the architect to the City of London, at a cost of nearly 500,000. The question of the removal of …
Old and New London
… runs northward from the end of Old Street Road, diverging at Shoreditch Church from the road by which we have travelled … or retired character. A medicinal spring was discovered at Hoxton in the seventeenth century, on digging the cellar … connects Kingsland Road and Dalston Lane with Essex Road, Islington. Ball's Pond was originally a small hamlet …
Old and New London
… StreetBeaumont and Fletcher's Reference to May-day Doings at Newington In the Olden TimesMildmay ParkThe Village … romantic scenery than that which we have so lately seen at Highgate and Hampstead, but still the neighbourhood now … in the "Ambulator" (1774) as "a pleasant village near Islington, where a great number of the citizens of London …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by watermen or used the ferry. The passage over the Thames at 'Cenlee' mentioned in 1292-3 was perhaps Chelsea, 9 but the earliest positive reference to a passage across at Chelsea was in 1550, named as Chelsea ferry in 1564, when … and Bank, via Fleet Street and Piccadilly; and from Angel (Islington) via New (later Euston) Road and Regent Street. 9 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… from about 30 ft. O.D. on its Thames-side edge to 150 ft. at the foot of the northern ridge. It is diversified by isolated hills, as at Kingsbury Green (300 ft.), Barn Hill, Wembley (282 ft.), … at Castlebar Hill, Ealing, and larger masses remain at Islington and Highbury near the junction with the Lea valley. …
Survey of London
… CHAPTER XII - The Portobello and St. Quintin Estates AT THE BEGINNING of the nineteenth century there were two large farms at the northern extremity of the parish of Kensington. … who in addition to extensive building interests in Islington and at Westbourne Park, Paddington, also owned some …
Survey of London
… from the Circus a short length of street, terminated at the north end by the County Fire Office, led to the … opened in January 1886 and discussion of how to restore at least the rudiments of architectural propriety to … sign attached to a building in Seven Sisters Road, Islington, was not a projection within the meaning of section …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… of October, after a double Prorogation, the Parliament met at Westminster, having in effect had a Recess of about nine … a great Fleet) actually invaded the Land; and the French at the same time had a royal Army in the Field, not far from … Skinner lost a Ship in the East-Indies, in the Parish of Islington, in the County of Middlesex. 'Now some of us Lords, …