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Survey of London
… built here. The site had been part of Stone Conduit Close and was a portion of the ground granted by the Earl of Clarendon in August 1664 to Sir William Pulteney and Sir John Denham, the western half of which Denham, in … annexed, 28 Feb. 1804. Letter from Cyril Ray in The Manchester Guardian, 20 March 1956, citing information from …
Survey of London
… Regent's Park. They were built by George Thompson in 1826 and have a porticoed front to the west. The east front on … four arched openings, the two to the south being windows and the two to the north doorways. On the second floor over … musical composer and conductor. Conducted festivals at Birmingham, Bradford and Leeds. Director of the Italian Opera …
Survey of London
… Albert Memorial Design and commissioning CHAPTER X - Albert Memorial THE Prince … rides in Rotten Row to see my own face staring at me, and if (as is very likely) it became an artistic monstrosity, … It may be noted that the similar Albert Memorial in Manchester, designed by Thomas Worthington, had been …
Survey of London
… Plates 41b, 42b, 47a In respect of the Prince's statue and the groups, where the artists were chosen by the Queen, … sculptors had to observe the general indications of size and treatment given in Scott's submitted design (wherein the … marble, they were cast in bronze by Messrs. Elkington of Birmingham and Henry Prince and Company of Southwark …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Aldbourn (St. Michael) ALDBOURN ( St. Michael), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Hungerford, … thick plantations; the Tring station of the London and Birmingham railway is only about a mile distant from the … for the manufacturers of the neighbouring towns. The Manchester and Birmingham railway passes through the parish. …
The Aldermen of the City of London
… ALDERMEN OF LONDON IN PARLIAMENT. Until the Stuart period, and indeed until the Restoration, Aldermen of London were … parliament of Mr. Balfour, who had been defeated at East Manchester at the General Election] 1906, February 27. Vice … Attwood, the well-known Radical agitator and M.P. for Birmingham. He sat for Greenwich (which he contested in 1835) …
Old and New London
… Aldersgate Street and St Martin-le-Grand CHAPTER XXVII. ALDERSGATE STREET AND ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND. Origin of the NameHistory of the … Home. On the front of the present hotel, much affected by Manchester men, under the turbulent little bull, is a stone …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Regis in 1935, 1 occupied some 878 acres to the south and west of the river Tove about nine miles south of Northampton and three miles from Towcester. The parish was separated from … from Paulerspury. 97 The closure of Alderton's nearest railway station, at Roade, in 1964 was not seen as a great …
A History of the County of Essex
… was cultivated by 4 servi with 2 ploughs in both 1066 and 1086, and the only recorded livestock in 1086 were 6 cattle and 1 … and there were 6 shopkeepers; 3 men worked on the railway, and there was a resident police constable. 4 In 1956 …
A History of the County of Essex
… the road from Marks Tey on a small part of the south-west, and by field boundaries on most of the remain- ing sides; in the north-west, south-west, and south-east, however, the parish boundary ran across … was a daily service to Halstead. 29 The Great Eastern railway line from London to Colchester was built through the …