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… Pall Mall CHAPTER XI. PALL MALL. "Oh, bear me to the paths of fair Pall Mall! Safe are thy pavements, grateful is thy … Shakespeare GalleryNotable Sights and AmusementsThe British Institution Habitus of Pall Mall during the … any nobleman had done up to that time in encouraging a British school of engraving; for, as he tells us in one of …
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… PALL MALL EAST As can be seen from Morden and Lea's map of 1682 (Plate 1) and from the drawing reproduced on Plate … down leaving a triangular site which was taken by the College of Physicians and the Union Club. a The College of … Gothic architecture. Important works by Smirke were the British Museum, the General Post Office, St. …
Old and New London
… STREET, &c. The University Club-house and the Royal College of PhysiciansThe Society of Painters in Water-ColoursBenjamin … Tavern" and Mr. PepysThe "Calves' Head Club"The Gallery of British ArtistsSuffolk Place and "Moll Davis"Dorset Place and …
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… House at Nos. 1315 Pall Mall was built in 18923 as a block of service flats and business premises. The architects were … Earl Beauchamp), who helped in the foundation of Keble College, Oxford, James Lowther, later chief secretary to the … are preserved in the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Plate 121). His western addition, on the …
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… Apothecary', 1 petitioned the Crown for an extension of his leasehold interest in three old houses on the north … Mall: Dodsley's Bookshop: The Shakespeare Gallery: The British Institiution Site later occupied by the Marlborough … was purchased in September 1805 by the Directors of the British Institution for 4500. 121 The British Institution …
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… a show-room and offices for Crane Limited, a Canadian firm of heating and sanitary engineers, and its British subsidiary, Messrs. Crane-Bennett Limited. The … 120 and 121 Pall Mall, the former having been the premises of the French Gallery. The builders found the sub-soil so …
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… No 79 Pall Mall No. 79 Pall Mall Previous history of this site is described on page 377 The present No. 79 Pall … In 1917 the Eagle Insurance Company amalgamated with the British Dominions Insurance Company. 190 As the Eagle Star … Co. Ltd.; P.O.D. Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 3rd series, vol. 4, pp. 1445. C.E.O., …
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… The Oxford and Cambridge University Club Previous history of part of this site is described on page 378 'At a numerous … of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, held at the British Coffee House, Cockspur Street, on Monday 17 May 1830' … of Divinity at Durham University and Principal of King's College, London. One of the club's trustees was Sir Robert …
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… Buildings The Reform Club The Reform Club Previous history of this site is described on pages 34951 The electoral defeat of 1831 had impelled the Tories to reconstruct their party … of drawings in the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects is a detail drawing for the Reform Club …
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… Club and Nos. 8385 (consec.) Pall Mall Previous history of this site is described on pages 35968 The Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland was founded in 1897 'as a … movement and the motor and allied industries in the British Empire'. 182 From 1900 to 1902 its premises were at …