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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… formerly the place was celebrated for buckles and tobacco-pipes. Facility of conveyance is afforded by the Midland … the high lands in Sharples, five miles north of Bolton, by pipes, and conveyed by an iron main of eighteen inches …
A New History of London
… 16 poles: from thence the water is distributed by elm pipes through the streets, like the veins of the human body, … into every house that subscribes for it, by small leaden pipes of of an inch bore. 1613. On Michaelmas-day 1613, when …
A New History of London
… the beggars antimasque came men on horseback, playing upon pipes, whistles, and instruments, sounding notes like those …
A New History of London
… to enlarge the passages into Stocks market; from the Fleet conduit into St. Paul's church-yard; the passage and gate-way …
A New History of London
… be placed in all wells; and fire-plugs in the several main pipes belonging to the New-river and Thames water-works. " 5. …
A New History of London
… engine to a reservoir in Hyde park, from whence it is by pipes again conveyed and distributed to the houses of … was also directed to be conveyed into the channels by pipes down the sides of houses, under 20 l. penalty 30. 1726. …