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Unpublished London Diaries
… 3. 1640 TOWNSHEND, Henry, of Elmley Lovett, Worcs. Civil War diary, including events in London and Worcester, 16403. … on visit to London, attempts to make contact with medical world, operations at St Thomas's and Guy's hospitals. Zeeuwse … of Brougham, Westmorland. Diary, 1798, 1806, 1809, 181563. First married to Thomas Spalding, her diary describes London …
Unpublished London Diaries
… emigrant to Australia. Photocopied diary, 183955, the first volume of which describes his life in London before … of Philadelphia, abolitionist. Diary, 1840, covering the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London from which she and … treatment for consumption, peace celebrations after Boer War. Croydon LSL AR57/1/1 486. 1880 SALLUTIO, Mrs Henry, of …
Unpublished London Diaries
… 5 1914, recording the preliminaries to and outbreak of the First World War as it impinged on her comfortable social circle in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the creation to his own time. During the late war with France, two extensive ranges of barracks, for 4000 … scale, by Joseph Pitt, Esq.: the pump-room, of which the first stone was laid on the 4th of May, 1825, is a grand … December, for cattle and cheese: also statute-fairs on the first and second Thursday after Michaelmas-day. The …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… the Severn estuary. 4 It reverted to farm-land after the war and some of its buildings were used for pig- and … estates. 15 The effect of extensive felling during the two world wars 16 was repaired by replanting, and the woods … there were 962 people in 1871 and 885 in 1901. In the first 30 years of the 20th century there was a more rapid and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… were granted to the chapel, probably during the civil war in the 1140s. 97 The church had achieved independence by … Meath. 41 The rectory house was plundered during the Civil War and Walter Raleigh, rector 1620-46 and dean of Wells …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… in the lower land to the E. may indicate that a castle was first constructed there, with subsequent removal to the ridge-top owing to the dampness of the first site. b(3) Earthwork, 150 yards E. of (2), appears to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and procorers of helpers to this werke and . . . them that first began and longest shall continowe . . . in the yere of … ceiling-beams and joists, some with foliated stops. On the first floor are original cambered and chamfered tie-beams. …
Old and New London
… Brewer, in the "Beauties of England and Wales," "was first adopted in the sixteenth century, and the present mode … as the "South Sea Bubble." It may be added, too, that the first red geranium seen in England is said to have been … himself with this neighbourhood as to be known to the world in common parlance as "The Philosopher of Chelsea." Not …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… and one daughter, three shields-of-arms; (2) to Edmond, first Lord Bray, 1539, and John, Lord Bray, 1557, his son, … Cheyne, Viscount Newhaven, 1698, Jane (Cavendish), his first wife, 1669, and Catherine, their daughter, marble … 1702, table-tomb erected 1749; (7) to Simon Box, 1692, the first buried in graveyard, low table-tomb; (8) to Katherine …