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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… 6576, on the W. side of Cambridge Road, S. of Northampton Street, are of two storeys with cellars and attics; the walls … ConditionFairly good. (5) Houses, Nos. 3, 5, 7 and 9 Hare Street, and Nos. 1 to 4 Hare Court, 20 yards E. of Brick Lane, are of three or four storeys; the walls are of brick and the roofs are …
Old and New London
… Bethnal Green MuseumSir Richard Wallace's CollectionNichol Street and its PopulationThe French Hospital in Bethnal Green … modern paintings in oil, by the greatest masters of past or modern times, a beautiful gallery of water-colour … painter conveys so fully the enjoyment of a fte champtre or the grace of coquettish woman? A dazzling array of …
The Environs of London
… and that it was the residence of the family of Bathon, or Bathonia, who had considerable property at Stepney in the … principally by journeymen weavers, who live three or four families in a house, and work at home at their looms … reels for the master weavers in Spitalfields. In St. John-street is an extensive cotton manufacture belonging to Messrs …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… housing, including requisitioned properties and hutments or mobile homes, 'prefabs', of which the L.C.C.'s first in … also acquired sites scheduled for industry, business, or open space. 18 It was estimated that to find a site and … the scheme for the estate, named Minerva after the central street and consisting of 8 three- or four-storeyed blocks in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green, and Hackney roads, Brick Lane, and Sclater Street. Similar houses occupied the Nag's Head Field … The long narrow Willow Walk existed in the north, Bourne's or Baker's Arms Gardens in the east by 1848, 60 and Cross … and Montague Street, the northern extension of Hope Town or Union Street (the whole after 1864 called Turin Street). …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in a rented room in a three-storeyed tenement in Boundary Street on the borders of the Nichol. His father kept a public … room, once used for weaving, had been partitioned into two or three rooms for two families, with another family on each … more space and needed to stay near their work, whether or not they moved within the area. In the late 1880s the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Teesdale streets. 60 In 1919 returning troops, finding the street markets taken over by aliens, petitioned for a market … Of the working-class dwellings, 583 were overcrowded or unfit. The L.C.C. planned improved streets and new blocks … the beginning of the Second World War the L.C.C. had built or were building 2,170 flats and planned another 1,830 mostly …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… apparently lapsed by 1652. 97 There were no buildings on or near the heath on the Bethnal Green side of the boundary in 1703 or 1720. 98 In 1722 the trustees of Parmiter's charity … for 77 years. They had constructed Suffolk Place and Felix Street by 1812 and Clare Street and Barossa and Felix places …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Thomas Parmiter, probably from a Suffolk family; 41 he or his father was a merchant tailor, who lived in Bethnal … waste. One of the group, apparently acting as treasurer or 'town clerk', was Parmiter, 44 who by will proved 1682 … In 1720 they leased a site at the eastern end of St. John Street from Elizabeth Carter for 600 years at a peppercorn …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Roads. A pre-Roman road following a route from Oxford Street and Old Street to Old Ford and Essex crossed Bethnal … to Mare Street 21 and, as Collier's Lane, dated from 1439 or earlier. 22 An Iron-Age coin was found in Victoria Park. … from London Bridge via Old Ford. Remnants of a Roman road or roads have been uncovered at Old Ford and at the junction …