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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Library would begin to be inconvenienced by insufficient storage space. 181 The author of this article wishes to thank …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were discontinued, and the schools were used for the storage of munitions. 345 Nevertheless, there was little … Britain. Further accommodation for readers and space for storage were provided by the loan of the Camera from the …
Survey of London
… proposals, but schemes for quay, handling and storage improvements. In the India and Millwall Docks, only … the end of the war, measures were taken to reinstate some storage accommodation, including the acquisition of Marston … out of the question. However, 80 per cent of the covered storage at the West India Docks had been lost. Changes in the …
Survey of London
… of 59ft was erected over the inner yard to create extra storage space. The north end of the quadrangle's east range …
Survey of London
… the west side of Preston's Road, as converted to bulk wine storage in 19745 and 197980. Fragments of the security system …
Survey of London
… at the West India Docks were those designed for the storage and handling of goods. London's need for secure, … types of building. Generally, warehouses are for long-term storage, and sheds for short-term sorting or transit storage. … it was later widely applied, perhaps most notably in early aircraft hangars, such as those surviving at Hendon and …
Survey of London
… intended to maintain the dock company's monopoly of the storage of mahogany imports and to reduce its dependence on … it was clad with corrugated iron in 191920 to provide storage for wool. It was demolished in 1949, following … were arriving in the Port with nowhere but open ground for storage, and so in 1956 the PLA sanctioned the erection of a …
Survey of London
… The east division of No. 2 Warehouse was converted for the storage of rum in 1922, when openings to the central division … capital was limited, and the immediate need for sugar storage seemed to be well provided for. The dock company … earlier. No. 1 Warehouse was entirely given over to tea storage in 1833. Later in the century it was also used for …
Survey of London
… filled in 19278, to save on maintenance and to increase storage ground, using material from the excavations for the … but the dock company decided to retain this site for wood storage and so Johnsons proposed a single large dry dock off … company with a scheme for adapting the south bank for the storage of bonded softwood. He was rebuffed, but his idea was …
Survey of London
… tunnel-vaulted cellars, always intended for letting as storage space. The exterior is bold in scale and quietly …