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Old and New London
… PADDINGTON CANAL, 1820. "And the Bishop's lands, too, what of them? I'll warrant you'll not find better acres anywhere … and in the following year it obtained the prize at the British Institution, and soon became very popular. The … the dead in cities is of necessity injurious to the public health; and it is strange that, in a city like London, where …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bayswater Bayswater has come to be the name for the whole of the former Paddington metropolitan borough south of the railway. 31 The area described below, however, is the … architecture'. 88 At the south-east corner King's Fund college occupies no. 2, in red brick and terracotta by …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Building after c.1800 Building After c. 1800. Acts of 1795, authorizing the Grand Junction Canal Co. to cut its Paddington branch 64 and the bishop of London and trustees for his lessees, the Morshead and … 96 as shown in residents' occupations, housing, and health. The contrast was particularly marked between the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… estates charities were first regulated in 1837, when part of their income was assigned to education, and united in 1934, after the establishment of separate educational funds. 59 The almshouse charity, … the income to be distributed by the medical officer of health to paupers not in charitable institutions. 71 The …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… at Paddington was declared in 1222 to belong to the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, 68 of which the rectory had … 8 Joseph Smith (d. 1756), writer and provost of Queen's College, Oxford, in 1730 added Paddington to other … was probably the Whitehall preacher and fellow of King's College, Cambridge, who died at Cambridge in 1799. 11 His …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ditches from Tyburn to Kilburn bridge led to indictments of the abbot of Westminster between 1422 and 1440. 24 The … to Harlesden, continued in 1983, by which date the British Waterways Board had opened a service from Little … Metropolitan Electric Tramways Co., a subsidiary of the British Electric Traction Co. Electric trams from Harlesden …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was probably included in the 13½ hides in the vill of Westminster which were attributed to St. Peter's abbey in … Co., mainly for deliveries to London markets, in 1938. British Railways later converted the building into offices. … burning near Talbot Road in 1861, 41 and from a veterinary college and from a cocoa mill in White Lion Place in 1866. 42 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… pupils were taught in 1816, when more than 1,500 children of under 12 years of age lived on the south side of the canal … and Maida Vale high school, both aided, and at St. Mary's college. 84 In 1918 North Paddington was one of the … in 1890 and 1910, may have existed in 1875 as Woodfield British schools, perhaps formerly a National school. 50 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Manorial Government. The almoner of Westminster abbey was granted widespread fiscal exemptions … 18 members, as before, and a standing sanitary and public health committee followed in 1856. 90 The new metropolitan … N.S. i. 26, 31. V.C.H. Mdx. ii. 58; 48 & 49 Vic. c. 23. British Parl. Election Results, 1885-1916, ed. F. W. S. Craig …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… north-eastern Paddington, derives its name from a stretch of Edgware Road 6 which forms its north-east boundary for c. … to Kilburn bridge. The north-west boundary, also, is that of the parish, following Kilburn Park Road along the … in the arts or entertainment. 11 In 1968 plans by the British Waterways Board to build on the canal pool were …