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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… it was such wild stuff it would have burned through stone walls. In this flame, some great villany was to be …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… this House owes above 12,000 l., viz. Mr. Noell. Captain Stone. The whole of the new and old debts are 41,000 l. … day of March last: and that it be referred to Captain Stone, and the rest of the Commissioners of Appeals for …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… chain; or like a building well knit and cemented, if one stone be taken "out, it loosens the whole; The rejection of … in which every little grain is seen, which in a fouler stone is not perceived. Next, give me leave to observe the …
Survey of London
… to the east, was designed by John Sanders, the foundation stone being laid in 1801. The material used is, in the main, stock brick, but there is a stone portico of the Doric order in the centre of the main … have archways surmounted by flags and trophies carved in stone. The institution was founded to provide for the …
Survey of London
… at Brentford. 21 James Mylne supplied 7,350 tons of Dundee stone, and 663 tons of Cornish stone came from Messrs Grey & Gregg. 22 The timber used …
Survey of London
… was placed in front of the building. 148 The foundation stone for Nos 6 & 7 Warehouses was laid by Joseph Cotton, … twostorey brick building of conventional character, with a stone floor. All the bricklayers work was undertaken by Henry … impounding station is a single-storey red-brick shed with stone cornices and copings, detailed in a style faintly …
Survey of London
… all were manufactured on-site by Trimmers) and building stone (mostly Dundee stone) were brought by barge to a wooden wharf on the Lea, … progressed well and by September 1876 the first coping stone on the new quay of the basin had been laid. It was …