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Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… 1761. Peter Roberts (Comptroller of the Works at London Bridge) elected by the Common Council 9th June, I George …
Old and New London
… the Corporation of LondonScenery of the Thames from London Bridge to WestminsterThe "Folly"A Chinese JunkThe Ancient … BridgeWordsworth's Sonnet on the Scene from the Bridge at Sunrise. We do not intend in this chapter to write … like Theodore Hook, "familiar with the Thames from London Bridge up to Eel Pie Island"perhaps even a little farther. …
Old and New London
… THE RIVER THAMES (continued). ALCOVES OF OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. "Such a stream doth run By lovely London as beneath … he would scarcely know, with its many bridges. The London Bridge of Peter Colechurch, with its crypt and fishpond in … sylvan, fishing, boating, and "swan-upping" aspect above bridge, but in its melodramatically maritime characteristics …
Old and New London
… breaking up of the ice five of the arches of old London Bridge were carried away. "In 1434," says Northouck, "the … frost and snow were so severe that five arches of London Bridge were "borne downe and carried away with the streame." … the Temple Stairs, appearing on the left, towards London Bridge, which is faintly shown in the view at the back with …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… 2 and in 1553, a third part of the river Tyne, and of the bridge over it at Newcastle, was restored, by act of … was taken out of the river opposite the glass-houses below bridge, under the direction of Captain Errington, town's … in the river Tyne, between its mouth and Newcastle Bridge, without contracting it to a degree that may prove …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… enters the town on the north, crossing the Thames by a bridge built in 1823, on the site of the earliest bridge. The road from Datchet, which enters the town on the north-east, crosses the river by the Victoria Bridge, of one arch, built in 1850, about which time there …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… undertook the repair of certain bridges, 'Swaines Bridge, Tayntershuche Woode Bridge, and Frogmore Bridge.' It was reported that the town contained 900 or more …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… have formerly included that part of Eton 'between Windsor Bridge and Baldwin's Bridge,' since the men dwelling between these bridges were at … notices, with grants of pontage for the repair of Windsor bridge in 1397, 1403, 1408, 1412 and 1425, are all that have …
Old and New London
… to 150,000, to be raised on the credit of the London Bridge Fund. Thirty designs were sent in by the rival …
Survey of London
… Westbourne, over which the road crossed by means of Stone Bridge; ( b) 19 acres called Thameshot, in a common field … the present gardens were planted. The cutting of Chelsea Bridge Road made necessary various adjustments, but in …