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Survey of London
… over the arches towards James Street and Covent Garden Market to be built with Portland Stone the rest Stuccod the …
Survey of London
… garden was built upon. This entailed the removal of the market, hitherto close to the garden wall of Bedford House, … balustrade. A perspective drawing of the new Flower Market in Tavistock Street (Plate 43c) shows that it was then … the Piazza, between Southampton Street and the new Flower Market, leaving space for a wide covered way from the Piazza …
Survey of London
… suburbs nearer to the Court. With the establishment of the market in 1670 and its removal to the centre of the square in … Maitland, writing in 1756, commented sadly that the market had 'proved so very prejudicial to the magnificent … it has subsequently served chiefly as premises for market tenants. The Tavistock closed in 1928 and was …
Survey of London
… 'admirably adapted for Building ground, Nursery grounds or Market gardens', and was offered either as one lot or in … of the further side of St. John's Hill, with a street market in Portobello Road c growing up on one side and a slum … were protected from unforeseen fluctuations in the money market, and development proceeded smoothly, even during the …
Old and New London
… the feathered fowl occupied the shops between the Stocks' Market (now the Mansion House) and the Great Conduit. Just … and the end of St. Nicholas flesh shambles (now Newgate Market). Poultry was not worth its weight in silver then. The … which stood at the western extremity of the Stocks' Market, was not at first known by the sign of the "King's …
Survey of London
… 54 On 23 December the Treasury inquired whether a market could be granted to a purchaser of the Ground, being … accepted for the Old Artillery Ground or under 5,200 if a market right were annexed to the grant. A regulation … to hope for considerable remuneration from the grant of a market, but in the end no such right was appended to the …
Survey of London
… its widening eastward at the time of the Spitalfields Market extension. At the pulpit cross or Spital cross were …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… by the proprietors of houses in Pilgrim Street, the Bigg Market, &c. are mentioned as the principal reasons why this … The shops now occupied by the butchers in the New Flesh Market are certainly much more convenient and comfortable … stalls that were set up every Friday evening in the old market; but had the shops been ranged in a double row along …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… is now a spacious, well-paved area, where the great market of the town was long kept. 2 The Sandhill is nearly of … form. The base, or south side, consists of the new Fish Market and Merchants' Court, the Guildhall, 3 the Exchange, … was anciently called Budding Chare. It leads to the Bigg Market, but is narrow, dirty, and inconvenient for carriages. …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… 2 there is a large area on the left, called the Milk Market, where great quantities of that necessary of life are daily sold. This market is mentioned in the common council books in 1717. On … and the whole has an improved appearance. The old clothes market is at present held in the street, where also great …