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Old and New London
… kept in memory by "Chocolate Row." Lord Wrottesley had an observatory on Blackheath for some time, previous to his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 18th-century fittings were removed. 82 The duke set up an observatory in the south- east tower and in 1789 was …
A New History of London
… built alike. One of these towers is now converted into an observatory. The building itself consists of three very lofty …
Old and New London
… comfort. The upper rooms constituted an astronomical observatory. What is now the drawingroom was the laboratory. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in Lent term. Measures for the establishment of an Observatory were adopted in 1820, when a sum of 6000 was …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… 100 feet; it contains six working floors, besides the observatory on the centre of the roof. To the grinding floor …
A History of the County of Essex
… manor. 41 Cocks tye or green, in Oak Lane near the modern Observatory cot- tages, recorded from 1307, was presumably …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1678
… school in Christ's Hospital and by building an observatory on Greenwich Hill, he therefore expects that the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… and astronomy, we have resolved to build a small observatory within our park at Greenwich upon the highest … Christopher Wren . . . of the place and site of the said observatory, you cause the same to be fenced in, built and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in height, with a turreted newel of 100 feet, used as an observatory for meteorological and other scientific purposes. …