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Survey of London
… Westminster Bridge CHAPTER 17 - WESTMINSTER BRIDGE [See plates 48 and 49.] Suggestions for a bridge across the river at Westminster were mooted soon after …
Survey of London
… Westminster Bridge Road CHAPTER 18 - WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ROAD [See plates 44, 45 and 46.] For the formation of the bridge approach on the Surrey side the Commissioners of …
Old and New London
… for the prisoner, who was brought hither, attended to the 'Bridge' by six barges rowed by fifty pair of oars, and manned … and 2viz., the Gin Act, the Mortmain Act, the Westminster Bridge Act, the Smuggler's Act, and the Act for borrowing …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… chief can be identified in later sources: Hayden and Withy Bridge in Boddington; 11 Wightfield and Apperley and part of …
Old and New London
… rowed an eight-oared boat from the Horseferry to Windsor Bridge and back, about eighty-six miles, completing the …
Old and New London
… while the surplus was to be applied to the erection of a bridge, or pier, near the palace and staple of Westminster. …
Old and New London
… the broad thoroughfare leading in a direct line from Bridge Street to Birdcage Walk and St. James's Park, derives … were built shortly after the erection of Westminster Bridge, and the street covers ground which formed at that time an arm of the Thames. The tide flowed up from Bridge Street, until it found its way into the canal of St. …
Old and New London
… which have been made in the metropolis in our day. A bridge near Somerset House; a great street from the Haymarket … Park; quays along the Thames; new approaches to London Bridge; the removal of Smithfield Market; and several other …
Old and New London
… needless to add that the banks of the "canal," and the bridge which spans it, are the haunt of children and their … with lamps in the trees, like another Vauxhall. A wooden bridge with a sort of tower, over the canal in St. James's … in which the public were informed that a beautiful Chinese bridge had been thrown over the canal, upon the centre of …
Old and New London
… of them areor were recentlyto be seen near Vauxhall Bridge Road. "Many a torch or lanthorn-lighted group of … site might have been heard in the construction of the iron bridge at Vauxhall. Dr. Vincent had already inclosed a …