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Survey of London
… called exchange Alley, probably from its prosimity to the New Exchange, but within the first few years of its … with turned pendants and a heavy handrail and appears to date from the end of the seventeenth century. No. 1 at the … first quarter of the eighteenth century. Internally the building is in a very poor state of repair and only the …
Survey of London
… the continuation of Stamford Street across Waterloo Road to Westminster Bridge Road. The new road, which was for … an Act 92 authorizing the development of this ground for building. The road was cut in 1824, and between 1825 and 1830 … practically the whole frontage on either side was let on building leases. The turnpike, which stood approximately …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is hilly, and sandstone of good quality is quarried for building, and for repairing roads. The living is a rectory, … the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, is now a school-house. Zeals ZEALS, a tything, … are common or waste. It has quarries of granite used for building, and some tin-mines, but the substratum of the …
Survey of London
… Winchester. At that time Gravel Lane extended northwards to the river along the line of the present Sumner Street and … at Southwark Library. They show that the original building, including galleries and seats, cost 360 and they … though the school still carried on in an adjoining building. Views of the exterior and the interior of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… who has contributed an excellent paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in … pp. 95110). Very few additions have since been made to the list given by Mr. Baker, and which is the source … work on the British fishes contains but rare allusions to Somerset; although Baker's paper is quoted in the preface …