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History Theses 1901-1970
… V. Bradley. Manchester M.A. 1921. The contribution of water power development to the progress of the cotton …
Survey of London
… houses on the backlands of Turnmill Street and St John's Lane. It was originally called Red Lion Street, after a … the line of Garden Alleys. It continued southward as far as what is now Albion Place, laid out more than thirty … then in multi-occupation, families sharing ill-constructed water-closets set up in the passage at the bottom of the …
Old and New London
… for the county of Surrey; the other, Horsemonger Lane Gaol, we have already described. 1 Like nearly all the … the Chertsey Register the place is named "Clappenham" as far back as the reign of Alfred. In the Domesday Survey it is … near the Wandsworth Road supplies the village with water." The Common, still about 220 acres in extent, is …
Survey of London
… 241 The names Rush Common, or Rushey Green, and Watery Lane (now Brixton Water Lane) both suggest that the area was marshy. At some date …
Survey of London
… and Slade estates), and extending south across Coldharbour Lane almost to the junction of the present Mayall and … parcel abutted on the north-west side of Coldharbour Lane and is now covered by parts of Lilford Road, Flaxman … between 1827 and 1841 by David Cox (17831859), the water-colour artist; his residence there is confirmed by …
Survey of London
… direction from the junction of Effra Road and Water Lane to Brixton Hill; there was also a long narrow spur … by steps descending to the crypt. The east front is by far the most original feature of the whole design. The …
Survey of London
… A piece of freehold land on the south side of Coldharbour Lane marked on the Inclosure map of 1810 as being held by … John Angell, inherited three acres of freehold land called Water Leys or Burdin Bushes 151 and a copyhold estate … of land, lying on the east side of Brixton Road and called Water Leys or Burdin Bushes, were purchased by Edmond Dent. …
Survey of London
… before his death in 1837; these are illustrated in a water-colour, dated 1820, reproduced on Plate 47a. This shows … their design differs considerably from that shown in the water-colour. Two piers incised Grove House and Elm House … and 206A. The pier illustrated on the extreme right of the water-colour marked the boundary between the Jackson and …
Survey of London
… 220 It comprised some 70 acres south of Coldharbour Lane on the east side of Effra Road and the north-east side … comprised some 86 acres on either side of Coldharbour Lane; one piece lay between the Lane and the east side of Loughborough Junction, and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century). 19 In 1776 this section was called Poulton's Lane, 20 referring apparently to the parish's first vicar, … most for internal access. The eastern part of Abingdon Lane evidently fell outside the commissioners' consideration … also had a principal shop. 120 Electricity and mains water were available by 1939, the latter supplied by Witney …