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Old and New London
… Agar," an eccentric and miserly lawyerto whom the site was let on a short lease for building purposes, about … made these general remarks about the line, and of the site which it occupies, we will proceed with a few details … twenty-five feet wide; altogether the station occupies a site of nearly ten acres. There are twenty-five principal …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… who has erected a spacious and elegant mansion on the site of a Benedictine convent founded here by William II., … with pleasant grounds, is Cloven hill, the supposed site of a battle, and where human bones have often been …
A Dictionary of London
… Wharf on the Thames, in Castle Baynard Ward (O.S. 1880). Site now occupied by warehouses, etc. Alborgth (St.), … Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Within. Erected 1885. The site was formerly occupied by Sion College. Aldermanbury … which it is the northern continuation, and as marking the site of one of the old postern gates in the City Wall. This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 8604 inhabitants. This place, which is separated from the site of the Roman Verulamium by the small river Ver, derived … the lower class of inhabitants: a silk-mill, occupying the site of the abbeymill, affords employment to three hundred … in 1736: they occupy three sides of a quadrangle, on the site of the old manor-house of Newland-Squillers; and the …
Survey of London
… occupation in apartments. Melbourne House was built on the site of an earlier house dating from the post-Restoration … Little is known of this first house to be built here. The site had been part of Stone Conduit Close and was a portion … grant is in the possession of the present owners of the site, the Albany Trustees, by whom the rent-charge is still …
Survey of London
… was reclaimed, Lambeth Palace Road was constructed on the site of Stangate and Bishop's Walk, and St. Thomas' Hospital … a popular place of resort, lay to the south. 289 On the site of the old Vine Inn and close to the distillery, Sir …
Survey of London
… memorial was that it should feature an obelisk on the site of the 1851 Exhibition. Grey was favourable, … the wish to foster 'South Kensington' drew the proposed site of the memorial westward from the 1851 Exhibition site, and opinion settled more or less spontaneously on the …