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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to the alcoholic liquor more commonly called GENEVA or GIN. In the early eighteenth century, the foreign visitor …
Survey of London
… 47 The present building, described as a commonplace gin palace by the novelist Angela Thirkell, 48 who as a child …
Survey of London
… small Shops continuing to No. 10, on which spot a Splendid Gin Palace is erected in lieu of the Old Castle Tavern. Sold …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… that is a little to the north of the road above Scotch Gin's Brow on the highway between Sedbergh and Kendal, thence …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… 'John Hennebert (?) Plumber and Glazier, 1767'. In chapel Gin window 34, in tracery, shield-of-arms (Plate 54) with the …
Survey of London
… English, but an American visitor detected the 'odor of gin about him'. 58 Dioramas, running in tandem with the other …
Old and New London
… amount of dirty second-hand clothes, and monster gin-palaces, with unlimited plate-glass and gas-lights. Go along there at what hour you will, these gin-palaces are full of ragged children, hideous old women, …
Survey of London
… 1745, Industry and Idleness, c. 1747, Beer Street and Gin Lane, 1751, and An Election, c. 1754), 147 Hogarth …