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Survey of London
… building and to have been made for the convenience of watermen. Cardinal's Wharf, No. 49 and Nos. 5052 Bankside No. …
Old and New London
… who look half like confectioners, and half like disbanded watermen. Here is the college of Doctors of Law, provided for …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was shipped down the Severn, 94 and the barges, trows, and watermen working from the Bower Yard wharves were mainstays … in 1756, 95 while in 1851 there were c. 11 families of watermen in the parish. 96 Along the Severn bank ran the … 18th and 19th centuries for the local community of Severn watermen. 35 There was a short-lived ropewalk c. 1821. 36 …
Old and New London
… of the people are various, including more largely watermen and waterside labourers, costermongers, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… front, supporting the gallery. ConditionGood. Secular (3) Watermen's Hall, standing on the W. side of St. Mary at Hill, …
A New History of London
… trained bands and auxiliaries, sea commanders, seamen and watermen, young men and apprentices, entered into a solemn …
A New History of London
… at reasoning on the course or direction of the wind. The watermen reckoned above 500 wherries lost on the Thames, some …
A New History of London
… of them. This year an act was passed for the regulation of watermen, wherrymen, and lightermen rowing on the river … of the populace. The stoppage of the navigation, disabled watermen and fishermen from earning their livelihood, as well …
A New History of London
… the Sunday ferry which was carried on there by the Watermen's company for charitable purposes was ruined; the … they retired seemingly satisfied. On the 9th, the watermen went in a great body to represent their grievances …
A New History of London
… with reporting the objections of some lightermen and watermen, very unfit judges of matters of this kind, and, … that the representations and memorial of the committee of watermen and lightermens company, of the chief owners of coal … by the temporary-bridge paid the interestmoney to the Watermen's-company, for the Sunday ferry; the charge of …