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Old and New London
… &c. "Well, this Hampstead's a charming place." Old Play. Church RowFashionable Frequenters of "the Row" in … Roman Catholic ChapelGrove Lodge and Montagu GroveThe Old Workhouse. Retracing our steps to the High Street, and passing up a narrow lane on the west side, called …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… parlour of the manor house. 63 In 1798, after most of the old manor house had been pulled down, the lease of the site … 87 By 1619 the manorial pound was in High (Hampstead) Street. 88 In 1678 it was described as next Basil Herne's … manor, in which courts at Belsize were mentioned. Old tenants claimed that a Belsize court was held at a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1841 to Basil George Woodd, a wine merchant of New Bond Street, who was already an underlessee. 27 In 1857 Woodd … Palmer, a Bloomsbury solicitor, who in 1855 exchanged the old lease for lives for a 99-year building lease. About 5½ a. … lease for life, 38 George Todd (d. 1829) had replaced an old mansion with a new one, Belsize Court (at first called …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1730 a cutting was made through the heath west of the old route, creating the modern North End Way (formerly Road), … a. of heath, between the road to Hendon on the east and an old gravel pit, as a bowling green to entertain guests. There … 1734 John Turner, a rich draper or tobacconist from Fleet Street, built at Parkgate a house called the Firs, after the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ho. of John Thompson, physician, on S. side of Pond Street, and room in ho. of Geo. Purden Bennett in Grove Pl., … bought 1918. Land around chapel sold for building 1950s. Old chapel used for Rosslyn Hill schs. until 1906, afterwards … ho., New End, 1823. 32 In 1851 congregation was Wes. Meth. Old Connexion; chapel seated c. 160; and attendance was 42 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… likely on the west side, and described as in Hampstead Street in 1619 and at the foot of Cloth Hill (later Holly … north end of the narrow part of High Street, 48 near the old pond. Another parish pond existed at the east end of … in 1870, stood near the site of Gayton Road. 51 Another old well called Skirret's well stood on East Heath in 1714, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was running by 1790, said to be in the Grove facing Pond Street, Haverstock Hill. From 1789 services included a sung … House, Little Church Row (later the southern end of Heath Street). It may have been the public chapel 'lately opened' … closed, and day sch. became vol. aided after 1945. 73 Old hos. demol. and 4-storeyed Bartram hostel with chapel …
Old and New London
… towards Rosslyn Hillwhich is a continuation of the High Street towards Londonwe notice on our right, at the corner of … after removing from his longcherished home. Another large old red-brick house, just below that formerly occupied by … running along the whole back front of the house. The old mansion, when inhabited by Sir Harry Vane, probably …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… land and dwellings were in Hampstead town and Pond Street, south and east of the heath, with smaller settlements … outsiders, particularly Londoners, acquired property, the old inhabitants became landless labourers, employed in the … of larger houses, which gradually replaced first the old cottages and then the newer ones on the waste. A few …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Town. 23 In 1889, despite the disappearance of some old names as a result of the 'town improvements', 24 there … 27 The Chicken House, opposite Vane House, in 1807 was an old building said by tradition to have been visited by James … the modern Flask tavern, 32 and the Upper Flask, in Heath Street, 33 owed their names, if not their existence, to the …