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Old and New London
… his colleagues. One Sunday (25th of May, 1806) he gave a grand dinner; on the Monday following a supper and ball, at … what St. Simon would call l'usage du monde, et du plus grand, et du meilleur, and regulated by that same good taste … of Stratton, whom we have already mentioned. At the junction of these two streets stands Berkeley Chapel, one of …
Survey of London
… year the minutes of the Grosvenor Board record that 'one grand object will be to get the front next Berkeley Square … most of the nineteenth century. The building of such grand new hotels as the Cecil, the Savoy and, close at hand, … rooms illuminated in the most resplendent style; also the grand staircase, the gallery, or corridor. The inner hall was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… female part of the population are chiefly employed. The Grand Junction canal, which passes by the town, affords an … at Abingdon. The surface of Berkshire comprises four grand natural divisions: the first is the great Vale of White …
A History of the County of Hertford
… and a carucate of land. 2 The River Bulbourne and the Grand Junction Canal, which runs beside it, pass through the parish … the inner face of the curtain, and appears to mark the junction with it of a wall running westward across the …
Old and New London
… church of St. Mary Magdalen, rebuilt in 1680, at the junction of Bermondsey Street and Abbey Street, occupies … as the precincts of the abbey. This road, which is at the junction of Parker's Row with Jamaica Road, leads westward, … the market-gardens of Bermondsey, in order to form a junction with the main line near New Cross. Besides being …
Old and New London
… their petition to the House of Commons with the somewhat grand opening of ' We, the people of England!'" The name of … and other streets in the immediate vicinity, formed the grand centre of the hat manufacture of London; but since then …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… presence of the nearby springs, which emerge close to the junction of the gault and greensand, and which provided the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… from the parish of Knockando, on the south, by the junction of the parishes of Dallas and Rothes, and is bounded … interesting, and those of the Tummel are magnificently grand, from the vast body of water which is precipitated from … seated on the northern shore of Dornoch Frith, at the junction of the Assynt, Reay, Caithness, and Ross-shire …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the 14-storeyed Bacton Tower (52 flats) opened at the junction of Roman and Globe roads. Designed by Yorke, … in 1985, and new developments at Coll Sharp Court in the junction of Austin Street and Virginia Road in 1990 and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to enter the park. Pennethorne planned Approach Road as a grand way from the park across the green to join Cambridge … 98 Wesleyans in 1867 acquired two lots at the northern junction of Approach and Bonner roads, where a chapel opened … from 1845: George's Place and Adelphi Terrace west of the junction with Bonner Lane, and Park Terrace to the east. 9 …