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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… before 1241 (Knowles and Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses, 187). The friary buildings stood above the flood … in size, the larger on the S. being for freestanding houses. Covenants required the houses to be at least of two storeys, and noisome or …
Old and New London
… OfficeHospital for Diseases of the SkinThe "Haunted Houses" of Stamford StreetAshton Lever's MuseumThe RotundaThe … Theatres, about 1833, the actors, who were common to both houses, had to hurry from St. George's Fields over … along parts of these roads. In early times very few houses stood on this marshy ground; but we have an account of …
Old and New London
… Society. N.B.Gentlemen and ladies may see her at their own houses if they please. This great wonder never was shown in … Edward Drummond, who was shot in the neighbourhood of the Houses of Parliament, in January, 1843, in mistake for Sir …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Blackland Farm, and possibly the cores of two much altered houses further east. To the west Dykes Farm was rebuilt in … five cottages built between 1843 and 1885 43 and a pair of houses built in the mid 20th century. At the crossroads a pair of 19th-century houses was converted to five cottages between 1899 and 1922. …
Survey of London
… 1986. Demolished Associated buildings, engine- and boiler-houses, were situated to the west side of the dock about 30ft …
Survey of London
… the Portuguese spice trade (a similar ban was imposed on Dutch merchants in 1594). This encouraged attempts to … establish direct trading links with the East Indies, and Dutch successes, marked by the rapid rise in the number of … On the north side of the yard were slaughter- and salting-houses, used for preserving and preparing meat for the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Avon Lloyd, whence it derives its name; many of the houses are excavated in the solid rock. The neighbourhood … from fire, and in 1731 was, with the exception of forty houses only, consumed by a conflagration, which destroyed … the streets are regularly formed and well paved, the houses modern and uniformly built of brick, and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lost by 1825. In 1606 the inhabitants of Bladon held three houses, built on part of the lord's waste, probably on land … for the use of the poor of the township. 71 Those or other houses were conveyed by William Fletcher and Mary Baldin to …