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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a neat stone bridge, and consists principally of one long street, containing many good houses, and the mutilated … 1700, has been removed from the school-house in Aylesbury-street, to more convenient premises in Amwellstreet, erected … in the Revolution of 1688. A portion of the Roman Watling-street, and the river of Wells (the Fleta of the Romans), …
A History of the County of Northampton
… settlement. 2 The outstanding Roman feature is Watling Street, the main road from London to the North West, which … Cleley. No secondary Roman roads branching from Watling Street have been satisfactorily identified within the … of St. James. There was another hermitage on Watling Street at Old Stratford. Apart from Old Stratford, which was …
Survey of London
… Row, extends west from St James's Walk and Woodbridge Street as far as Farringdon Lane (Ill. 5). At its heart are … side and elsewhere has been in the main respectful of the street's scale and character, if rather dull. In contrast is … 6). A private roadway on the line of present-day Aylesbury Street and Clerkenwell Green gave access from the main …
Survey of London
… beside Hicks' Hall, the new sessions house in St John Street (see page 206), but the site there was too restricted. … as the Rosemary School for infants, fronting Woodbridge Street. The school was ceremonially opened on 13 December … same ideals in mind, the school was named not after the street in which it stood, the usual practice of the board, …
Survey of London
… in the foundations of a chapel, in what is now Gaskin Street. 59 Following competitive tenders, the building … of Freemasons, to designs by Charles Evans of Warwick Street. Masonic emblems and the arms of several lodges are … (d. 1827, 1842 and 1848). Signed John Malcott of Newgate Street, who was also responsible for James Carr's monument in …
Survey of London
… extending from Smithfield and Cow Cross, up St John Street and into the Fleet valley along Turnmill Street. On the contrary, the Green seems to have come into … remaining as it had long been, a caf, and becoming a fried-fish shop in the 1890s. 185 (A claim, made on the opening of …
Survey of London
… For some of the way, between Goswell Road and St John Street, Clerkenwell Road was adapted from Wilderness Row, a street laid out in the late eighteenth century on the estate … in contrast, was almost entirely based on the existing street pattern (which included the original, relatively …
Old and New London
… of JohnsonThe Urban ClubHicks's HallRed Lion Street and its AssociationsSt. John's Square and its Noble … man at a window in the upper part of a house in Woodbridge Street, overlooking the prison-yard. He went to bring another … guests, and servitors was enormous. In one year, besides fish and fowl from its demesnes, it expended 430 quarters of …
Old and New London
… and its AssociationsThe Musical Small-coal ManBerkeley Street"Sally in our Alley"Red Bull TheatreWard's … the side wall of a house at the north end of Newcastle Street). The old house was a sombre, monotonous brick … the Green, and two at the north-east corner of Aylesbury Street. The last tree on the north side of the Green, says …