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A Dictionary of London
… Street was distinct from Cow Lane. Cowbridge Street Houses in "Coubrugestret" towards Smethefeld, 1331 (Ct. H.W. … 1831). The site is now occupied by offices and business houses. Cox's Quay On the south side of Lower Thames Street …
Old and New London
… in love with the good literary society which its coffee-houses afforded, that Johnson assented with a "Why yes, sir," … shady elms; whilst the southern side is bounded by the houses and small inclosures abutting upon the Strand highway. … its French equivalent, couvent, is strictly applied to the houses of religious men as well as women; if so, it is more …
Old and New London
… which now crosses it, here might be seen low gambling-houses; floors let out to numerous families with fearful … thoroughfare which was marked by a tablet upon one of its houses bearing the superscription, "This is Red Rose Street, … Lane, are all taken down, and affixed to the front of the houses." Thus the City of Westminster began the innovation by …
Old and New London
… coach-trimming makers, &c. Many of the other houses not so occupied were tenanted by persons of note; and … an amusing picture of the manners of the day in coffee-houses and taverns. When the clock struck, a large bell … says that "the street is open and large, with very good houses, well inhabited, and resorted unto by gentry for …
Survey of London
… and its site and garden built over. The fronts of the houses to be erected along the south side of the square … wall, and in order to provide space for access to the houses the market shops had to be removed to the area inside … living round the market. The leasehold value of their houses had 'Abated in proportion as the Nusances have …
Old and New London
… Garden Theatre CHAPTER XXIX. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. "The houses twain Of Covent Garden and of Drury Lane." Rejected … Garden and its neighbourhood, or of the taverns and public-houses by which it was surrounded, or of the still lower public-houses near Clare Market, which were the resort of …
Survey of London
… new box entrance was to be constructed within two existing houses fronting to Bow Street. Holland's 'model' design … of Holland's work involved altering and extending existing houses in Bow Street (Plate 48), but the building on the west …
Survey of London
… per annum. The site had hitherto been occupied by several houses and their ancillary stables and coach houses, most of which Rich covenanted to rebuild. His portico houses at the north-east corner of the Piazza were, however, …