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Old and New London
… it, on the course of Turnmill Brook. The patentee, Paul of Birmingham, undertook its management, but it was never …
Old and New London
… with local exhibitions of arts and manufactures. In Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Dublin, and other great … OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851. At a meeting held in Birmingham, Mr. Cobden, in speaking of the advantages that … was undertaken by Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., of Birmingham. The ground-plan of the building was a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The Growth of the City THE GROWTH OF CITY The city of Birmingham 1 now covers an area of 51,147 acres and houses … 8 Other writers have stressed the importance of Birmingham's geographical position, 9 and have shown that the … factor of a large supply of good drinking water. 12 Since Birmingham was neither a port nor a corporate borough, and …
Survey of London
… light switches, was principally designed and made by the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. The builders were George …
Survey of London
… a railway to link the Kensington Canal with the London and Birmingham Railway. The course originally proposed for the … opportunity was taken to change the name from the original Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction Railway to the more … to William Henry Collins and Alfred Horatio Stansbury of Birmingham, wholesale ironmongers, perhaps suppliers of …
A History of the County of Northampton
… finally completed in 1805 as a trunk route from London to Birmingham, of which a lengthy stretch in Northamptonshire … Forty years after the canal was built, the London & Birmingham Railway, opened in 1838, followed much the same …
A History of the County of Warwick
… James Sherriff's Map of upwards of Twenty-five Miles round Birmingham published in 1798, but on the Ordnance Survey map … Snitterfield, Stratford. 18 Hemlingford: Atherstone, Birmingham, Solihull, Tamworth. Kineton: Brailes, Kineton, … Henley-in-Arden, Stratford. Hemlingsford: Atherstone, Birmingham, Coleshill, Solihull. Kineton: Kineton, Long …
Survey of London
… he held as a tenant-at-will, for the construction of the Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction (later West London) … however, the impending establishment of the London and Birmingham Railway (in 1833) and of the Great Western Railway … buy their semi-moribund property. This new company was the Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction Railway, incorporated …
Survey of London
… 1848 the community established by Newman at Maryvale near Birmingham was joined by another society of recent converts … church, was J. J. Scoles. Like the Oratorians residence at Birmingham and the London Congregation's country villa at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Caversfield road, a part of the coach road from London to Birmingham, was turnpiked in 17901 along with the … a week and there was a weekly wagon passing through from Birmingham to London. 11 A weekly coach to Oxford for the … completed and the London Road station on the L.N.W.R.'s Birmingham line was opened. Bicester North station was opened …