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A History of the County of Shropshire
… developers had little interest in providing the cheap housing needed by people displaced from premises …
A History of the County of Stafford
… enabled the iron-founder to set up his works where cheap power was most readily available. In West Bromwich the … and the site's chief advantage thereafter was the cheap transport available on the Birmingham Canal. 64 By the … the 19th century. From the 1890s until the First World War cheap stampedsteel and aluminium hollow-ware began to be …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of the canal, which offered the necessary facilities for cheap bulk transport. Established in West Drayton by 1845 at …
A History of the County of Essex
… became slums. High land values and the great demand for cheap houses made good building unprofitable, especially in …
A History of the County of Essex
… supply. Plenty of land was available, at first fairly cheap. The earliest 19th-century development was attracted by …
A History of the County of Essex
… to buy land for public purposes when it was relatively cheap. 58 The burden of this neglect fell heavily upon the … John Gurney, owner of the park, agreed to sell it cheap, and funds were raised by subscription. The City of …
Survey of London
… as I was wanting. The rent 16/- per week, which is even cheap for London, was a less matter with me than the comforts …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… roughly triangularshaped area formed by West End (formerly Cheap Street), Edward Street, Bratton Road, and Alfred …
Old and New London
… a fountain of Helicon ran Rhenish wine; and the conduit in Cheap, with a laudable courtesy, spouted claret. But I must …