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Old and New London
… it much." At one corner of Salisbury Square (says Mr. Timbs) are the premises of Peacock, Bampton, & Mansfield, the … the king's." In St. Bride's Passage, westward (says Mr. Timbs), was a large dining-house, where, some forty years … England in 1825. This Caleb Colton, mentioned by Mr. Timbs, was that most degraded being, a disreputable …
Old and New London
… Joke. At the east corner of Peterborough Court (says Mr. Timbs) was one of the earliest shops for the instantaneous …
Old and New London
… had breathed his last only a few short hours before. Mr. Timbs reminds us of another story of Dr. Johnson, which will … to Mr. Noble, was not destroyed by fire in 1819, as Mr. Timbs and other writers assert. The house destroyed was … Nearly opposite the office of "this good hater," says Mr. Timbs, Wright (late Kearsley) kept shop, and published a …
Old and New London
… held its meetings in Crane Court. "Elizabeth," says Mr. Timbs, "kept down the number of Scotsmen in London to the … to their respective districts." In Crane Court, says Mr. Timbs, lived Dryden Leach, the printer, who, in 1763, was …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… laden with survey of tops, lops, and bark of waste of Timbs, Alderman Timene, Signor D. Timmerman, Paul Tin …
Old and New London
… the earliest of her pictures. "The designs," says Mr. Timbs, "were executed with five crewels, dyed expressly for …
Old and New London
… computation. An account of it is to be found in John Timbs' "Year-Book of Facts" for 1851. With reference to this …
Survey of London
… Hunt, M.P., later Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1859. John Timbs, writer and publisher, 18613. 3rd Earl of Romney, …
Old and New London
… is taken,' is not very clear. At all events," writes John Timbs, in his "Club Life of London," "the houses did not … they are taken.' If this account be correct," adds Mr. Timbs, "there must have been a strange change in the grade of … The origin of the annual festivity is told by Mr. Timbs in his work quoted above: "On the banks of Dagenham …
Old and New London
… rest were transported for life. It is stated in Mr. John Timbs' "Romance of London," on the authority of the late Sir … a region as Grosvenor Square may be set down by Mr. Timbs, or by others, among "Things not Generally Known." But …