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Survey of London
… are mostly known for the period of depression in the house-market that immediately followed: perhaps about 2,2503,350 in … but there are perhaps some signs of a misjudgement of the market. At the big houses, Nos. 214 (Plate 92d), the … 'mania' for building: 330 perhaps this spoilt the labour-market. And demand which in 1873 was still good was evidently …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 16th and 17th centuries became little more than that of a market town for the surrounding countryside. Collegiate …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… Cooper's Entry. Gateshead, in ancient days, had a borough market. 10 Its internal trade, though now confined to shops, … Natrass and the town of Newcastle, respecting a free Market and Fair in Gateshead, witnesses deposed that they had seen a market or fair held twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… BOROUGH OF ABINGDON Abendon to xvi cent. The borough and market town of Abingdon lies in the angle made by the Thames … trade as the reason for its existence. The nucleus is a market-place roughly square in shape in front of the abbey … go to and from Oxford as they used to do. 18 The spacious Market Place west of the abbey gatehouse has been the centre …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… in an easterly direction, shifting its centre to the market-place, an open square on the sloping ground below … community evidently lived in the neighbourhood of the market at Baker Lane (probably Baker Street, in which a cross … Temple Street), and Butcher Row (now Silver Lane). 5 The Market Square was also the centre of county business. …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… The trust property consists of a house and shop in Market Square, a house in Church Street and about 16 acres of …
A History of the County of Essex
… of the town, clearly shown on the map of 1653, was the market place, which lay south-east of the abbey site and … east of St. Margaret's churchyard. At its centre stood the market hall or court house, built in 15678, 4 surrounded by … its continuation Heath Street, led south and west from the market place to Barking Creek and the town wharf. 8 The wide …
A History of the County of Bedford
… of selling at fairs, or any foreign butcher in open market, or at Christmas, or within two days, or during the … borough has returned one member only. The right to hold a market was a very early municipal privilege. The tolls of … of the Crown, and in 1225 the king, hearing that Shefford market was detrimental to the Bedford market, ordered …
A History of the County of Bedford
… south sides of the water respectively 15; whilst in 1553 a market and fairs were granted to be held in St. Mary's market-place on the south, to supplement those already held … the town, and here in the 13th century, as to day, was the market place, then adorned with a market cross. 21 The Moot …
A History of the County of Sussex
… passing along the edge of the cliff, on which was the market-place. The approach from the lower town was up a … the wall stands the Town hall (on the East of which is the Market House); it is a very strong Aedifice in the form of a … portion of flint walling on the north side of the Old Market, now a garage, is believed, on slender evidence, to be …