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Survey of London
… Confronted with the bustling activity of Covent Garden Market and the diffuse collection of buildings that form its … church, and palatially fronted houses. Here, with the market soon afterwards established on the south side, were to … in the Summer Season; and in this Side there is kept a Market for Fruits, Herbs, Roots, and Flowers, every Tuesday, …
Survey of London
… 4 0 St. Margaret, Fish Street Hill ("in the new Fish Market"). 24 Assize rents. 1 0 0 St. Mary Aldermanbury. … 17 0 St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street ("in the old Fish Market"). Assize rents, 9 s. 1 d. Farm of tenements, 6 13 s. … Valor Ecclesiasticus has "the Blessed Mary in the New Fish Market," probably a mistake. Name illegible; identified by …
Old and New London
… whilst even the richer had hardly wherewith to go to market for obtaining the common conveniences of life. The … full value, although both were at a heavy discount in the market. The past services of the Bank were not forgotten. The … it had proposed to have branch Banks in every city and market town of England. In 17001704, the conquests of Louis …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… Seven or eight Hundred of them keeping Guard upon the Market-place. The Imperialists then gave out themselves to be …
Survey of London
… building of Drury Lane Theatre in 16623 and the grant of market rights in 1670. Perhaps by the Earl's contrivance the … centuries, but above all, it was the founding of the market which had the most farreaching effect. The market spoiled the appearance of the Piazza, filled the …
Survey of London
… speculators and for the improvement and expansion of the market which the demolition of the house would permit. The … Duke also proposed to let the existing fruit and vegetable market in the Piazza for seven years at an annual rent of … use his influence to obtain a patent for a 'new generall Market' for 'Flesh, Fish & Fowl', which was to stand 'in such …
Survey of London
… 26,000 arose from the Covent Garden estate (including the market). 196 By 1892 the combined rental of Covent Garden estate and the net receipts from the market had increased to 59,853, 197 and the total gross … greatly since its original development in the 1630's. The market had taken over the centre of the Piazza, Bedford …
Survey of London
… existing leases expired, 257 and the area devoted to the market was also enlarged. All these improvements very greatly … estate. In 1890 the revenue of Covent Garden estate and market had been nearly 53,760, consisting of 30,855 in rents from the estate and 22,905 in net receipts from the market. 258 By 1912 the combined revenue had risen to …
Survey of London
… the rectangular or squareish enclosures of garden ground, market gardens and nurseries. Landownership to the Early … villas was shown to be divided into some seventy acres of market gardens and ten acres of grassland or paddock. 38 The … the 'gardens' here were or had been nurseries rather than market gardens. In the 1780's nurseries at O and N …
Survey of London
… page 196; fig. 59 on page 202), from the Atwood family of market gardeners. 349 This was not far from the builder John …