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Survey of London
… with wood groined vaulting. The rooms for teaching and recreation are separated from the tower and church by an open …
Old and New London
… by the canons as a place of private retirement and recreation for their own families. As late as the seventeenth …
Old and New London
… and the Mulberry Garden was afterwards devoted to a public recreation-ground. Every reader of John Evelyn and Samuel … to an end by her retreat into a cloister. The public recreation-ground does not appear, however, to have lasted …
Old and New London
… from a mechanic's institutea place of repose and recreation, opened every evening from six till half-past ten, … no less than forty taverns "for the honest and reasonable recreation of good and civil people, who for their quality …
Old and New London
… or "Seven Chimneys"The Pest-houseThe "Maze" and Public Recreation GroundThe "Butts"Trial by Wager of BattleThe Last … the fields being described as "of great use, pleasure, and recreation," to the King's Scholars and neighbours. And Sir …
Survey of London
… was not only London's principal highway, but the scene of recreation and pleasure, 83 was much used. Regulations were …
Survey of London
… but a portion was utilised for what may be called the "recreation" side of the new Palace. The cockpit, tennis …
Old and New London
… despatch. And when it pleased the King's Majesty, for his recreation, to repair unto the Cardinal's house, as he did at …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… a bill (for desecrating the Sabbath really) but for Sunday recreation as he calls it. He would have the British Museum, … some photographs. No news. The majority against the Sunday recreation bill would have been still greater if 4 members …