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Old and New London
… "Before I had done anything of much consequence in this walk ( i.e., the painting and engraving of modern moral …
Old and New London
… this open area, though enclosed, as their "country walk," and seriously asserted that to all intents and … probably be used as gardens, and there will be a flight of broad stone steps, leading up into the western end of Carey … Yard, a thoroughfare into Little Shear Lane, with a pretty broad passage; on the east side is an open place going into a …
Old and New London
… The parish CHAPTER IV. ST. CLEMENT DANES ( continued).A WALK ROUND THE PARISH. Carey StreetIts … to this neighbourhood "Beneath the shade of Temple Bar Walk shabby wits who serve the state; Steele, with mad …
The Environs of London
… 104 Nov. 29, 1764, Richard Taylor, Hoare's Rope-walk, Smith, 92 Jan. 23, 1765, Geo. Hammond, John's-hill, …
Survey of London
… the inadequate accommodation in a house in Bandyleg Walk with which they had previously been forced to be … based on that of the church of the Austin Friars near Old Broad Street and had the same plan, three parallel aisles …
Old and New London
… down to the commencement of the present century, comprised broad open meadows, and stretched from Blackman Street, … a promenade 250 feet in length, where the patients can walk about when the weather proves unfavourable for out-door … said secretly in a modest and humble room in Bandyleg Walk, near Guildford Street (now New Park Street 13). A site …
Survey of London
… A writer in 1807 complained that it was impossible to walk there in the daytime without being above the ankles in … the welfare of stranded girls. 174 Nos. 1531 King Edward Walk are all that remain of the long plain terrace of …
Old and New London
… "When," he adds, "the charity boys of St. Giles's parish walk the boundaries, those who have deserved flogging are … on the south side of High Street, at the junction of Broad Street, and was erected between the years 1730 and … verge of the churchyard, overlooking the busy traffic of Broad Street, lies a flat stone, having upon it some faint …
Old and New London
… goats, horses, giants, lions, tigers, and gentlemen who walk upon the ceiling with their heads downwards, are all … he writes: "I am so hot and lazy after my morning's walk that I loitered at Mrs. Vanhomrigh's, where my best gown … Strype, in his edition of Stow, describes it as "a broad street coming out of St. James's Square;" but, he adds, …
Old and New London
… the fields or the streets allowed him. There he used to walk, and form his speeches, and afterwards step into a shop, …