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Survey of London: Volume 45, Knightsbridge
This volume describes a district today synonymous with wealth and smartness. The area covered includes the old thoroughfare of Knightsbridge itself, and the triangular swathe of land to its west, north of Brompton Road, bounded on the north by Hyde Park and on the west by Exhibition Road. In addition to the hotels, shops and fashionable houses and apartments for which the area is known today, the volume also describes the fabric of Knightsbridge's more diverse past: the medieval hamlet, straggling out along the road to Kensington; the string of aristocratic mansions, such as Kingston House, that in the eighteenth century lined the south side of the road west of Knightsbridge Green; the famous Tattershall's horse-mart at Knightsbridge Green; the Japanese Native Village of the mid-1880s, from which W. S. Gilbert drew inspiration for 'The Mikado'; and Whistler's legendary Peacock Room at 49 Princes Gate, the greatest of all Aesthetic interiors. Also included is Sir Basil Spence's Knightsbridge Barracks, still providing a Brutalist modern concrete home to the military pageantry of the Horse Guards.
Survey of London
… Mile End, Highgate, Kingsland, Southwark, Hammersmith and Knightsbridge. In the 17th century they were reduced to the …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… when so wove and thrown. 25 Jan. 333 Scott, George, of Knightsbridge, in the co. of Middlesex, Gent. A boiler, pot, …
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… was described as waste ground belonging to the manor of Knightsbridge in the ownership of the Dean and Chapter of … the manor (the full title of which was the manor of Knightsbridge with Westbourne Green) from Henry VIII in 1542 … of Brick Street referred to above, and twenty-two acres in Knightsbridge. The land in Knightsbridge was repurchased by …
Survey of London
… the principal of a marble-works and stonemason's firm of Knightsbridge and a large supplier of fireplaces for houses …
Survey of London
… of his death in 1630 owned some 370 acres in Kensington, Knightsbridge and Chelsea. 4 Soon afterwards this large … copyhold acres, though usually described as being in Knightsbridge, were in fact on the south side of Brompton … new brick-built public house erected for Thomas Goding of Knightsbridge, brewer and wine and spirit merchant, to whom …
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… 88,863) he had headquarters at No. 43 Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, a furniture shop at No. 40 North Audley …
Survey of London
… on the north side of the way leading from Charing Cross to Knightsbridge. Moraunte received a fee of 8 d. a day. 26The …
Survey of London
… property to a local builder, William Blore, a carpenter in Knightsbridge. 94 Blore seems to have mortgaged his leasehold …
Survey of London
… Thomas Emery, plumber; William Morgan of Albert Terrace, Knightsbridge, builder; Christopher Richard Surrey, builder; …