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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… India docks, for 1845, was 330,503 tons; at the London dock, 273,795; and at St. Katherine's, 157,191; making a … ground attached to them, an area of 204 acres. The import dock is 2600 feet long, 510 broad, and 29 feet deep, and the export dock is of the same dimensions, except in breadth; both are …
Two Calvinistic Methodist Chapels, 1743-1811: The London Tabernacle and Spa Fields Chapel
… Axminster Devon and Cornwall Tavistock Pollperry Plymouth Dock 38 Caln and Preston Wiltshire Longley Stanton, Upper and … The Mill near Stroud ( Visits to London, 183). Plymouth Dock is now Devonport. …
A Dictionary of London
… continuation of the street from Burr Street to Hermitage Dock Side was called "Little Thames Street" (Rocque, … continuation of the street from Burr Street to Hermitage Dock Side was called "Little Thames Street" (Rocque, …
Old and New London
… visits itHenry Mayhew's Description of itBillingsgate Dock in King Ethelred's TimeThe Price of Fish as regulated by … place); But what most pleased us was his Grace Of Puddle Dock, a porter grim, Whose portrait Hogarth, in a whim, … way ! Fish alive ! alive ! alive, oh !" Billingsgate Dock is mentioned as an important quay in Brompton's …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Railway Servants had opened a branch at Lydney, and the Dock, Wharf, Riverside, and General Workers union also had a … not enforced, however, and in 1980 the British Transport Dock Board and British Rail sold the harbour and adjoining …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… into small craft; and its northern extremity is a graving dock for building and repairing vessels. In May, 1847, the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… but the smallest vessels going up to Preston. 8 A graving dock there led to the establishment of shipbuilding works. … mile east of the village, is nearly formed into a natural dock, large enough to contain a fleet of men-of-war, and there is a small graving dock at its northern extremity where vessels are built and …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… (181839). Addresses given at 23 Carr Lane in 1823; 15 New Dock St in 1826; 14 Junction Dock St, 182631; 12 Wells St with res. at Little Albion St, … John, London, carver and gilder (176975). Settled in Dock St in 1769, establishing a large business in carved …