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Survey of London
… built here. The site had been part of Stone Conduit Close and was a portion of the ground granted by the Earl of Clarendon in August 1664 to Sir William Pulteney and Sir John Denham, the western half of which Denham, in … 1666/7 (see pages 342, 3901). On 20 November 1668 Pulteney and his trustee Henry Guy, of Tring, Hertfordshire, esquire, …
Survey of London
… Regent's Park. They were built by George Thompson in 1826 and have a porticoed front to the west. The east front on … four arched openings, the two to the south being windows and the two to the north doorways. On the second floor over … James Vetch (17891869), engineer. Captain in the Royal Engineers and was in Mexico from 1824 to 1829 and again from …
Survey of London
… 34 - THE ALBERT EMBANKMENT [See plates 114, 118, 119, 121 and 122.] The Victoria and the Albert Embankments were constructed at about the same … factors; M.P.s wished to improve the view from the windows and terrace of the newly completed Palace of Westminster; old …
Survey of London
… Albert Memorial Design and commissioning CHAPTER X - Albert Memorial THE Prince … rides in Rotten Row to see my own face staring at me, and if (as is very likely) it became an artistic monstrosity, … it would upset my equanimity to be permanently ridiculed and laughed at in effigy.' 1 The story of the memorial that …
Survey of London
… Plates 41b, 42b, 47a In respect of the Prince's statue and the groups, where the artists were chosen by the Queen, … sculptors had to observe the general indications of size and treatment given in Scott's submitted design (wherein the … of his fellow-workers favourably with the collaboration of engineers and subordinate decorative artists that produced …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Albourne Place farm, it included the former Albourne park and comprised 400 a., 66 and in 1787, when it had 260 a., it was leased for 21 years. 67 In the 1820s and 1830s the farm was in hand. 68 There was presumably a …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… agreed to respitc him from serving the office of Sheriff, and to move the Common Council to confirm the same, and requesting that this might be carried into effect, or … For an account of the Family of Myddleton, see Smiles's 'Engineers,' vol. i. Merchant Taylor, elected Alderman of …
Old and New London
… Aldersgate Street and St Martin-le-Grand CHAPTER XXVII. ALDERSGATE STREET AND ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND. Origin of the NameHistory of the … for stores, and partly by the department of the telegraph engineers, the large room in the centre being used as a …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Regis in 1935, 1 occupied some 878 acres to the south and west of the river Tove about nine miles south of Northampton and three miles from Towcester. The parish was separated from … with Paulerspury ran through fields; while to the south and east the boundary with Grafton was represented partly by …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Aldsworth lies 6.5 km. south-east of Northleach and 5 km. north-east of Cirencester. In 1976 it covered an area of 1,356 ha. (3,350 a.) 1 and was irregular in shape with the boundaries marked by field boundaries save on the west and part of the south where they followed the river Leach and …