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Survey of London
… Reservoir: F Boundary Ditch: G Proposed line of Commercial Road In advance of an agreement, Dance, Foulds and Jessop, …
Survey of London
… 1980s. Customs Office and Excise Office, West India Dock Road. The Customs and Excise officers at the West India Docks … from 1803 just outside the Commercial (West India Dock) Road entrance. Although the condition of these offices was … and Excise, facing each other across the Commercial Road. Thomas Morris revised the plans, and the offices were …
Survey of London
… placed north of the lock on the east side of Preston's Road, to transmit river water into the docks. This was not … the west end of the South Dock, on the east side of Bridge Road over the longdisused entrance lock, which was to be … a government loan. 919 Blackwall Entrance Lock (Preston's Road) Bridges. The West India Docks and the City Canal made …
Survey of London
… 200ft, just west of the south end of West India Dock Road, serving as the boundary to the garden of Dockmaster's … out by Thomas Morris and built in 181011. 713 The public road between the Limehouse entrance locks was re-routed by … fencing in the twentieth century. West India Dock Road Entrance, Hibbert Gate and Milligan Statue. The entrance …
Survey of London
… of 19657 (which included a novel feature in having a road ramp to serve an upper transit floor). These buildings … the 1890s. Nevertheless, shipping retained priority over road traffic. The bridges were extremely varied, becoming … elsewhere before Rennie established it as the standard road-bridge type at the West India Docks in the period 1811 …
Survey of London
… Whitford & Company, of the Royal Iron Works, Westferry Road, to plans by H. F. Donaldson (Plate 51a). This structure … the longest of the sheds, extending right up to Preston's Road. 644 All the teak sheds were extended westwards up to … Brothers continued to use Nos 4 and 5 Sheds, through road deliveries and short leases of the latter building, …
Survey of London
… to allow two West Indiamen to berth in front of each. A road to the north would permit discharge without disrupting … 30-cwt luffing hydraulic cranes made by the East Ferry Road Engineering Works Company and Carrick & Wardale of … into 1896 with William Whitford & Company, of Westferry Road, erecting an iron canopy over a delivery platform to a …
Survey of London
… a bridge in 1987, as part of improvements to Preston's Road. Limehouse Basin The two-acre basin that was formerly at … Warehouse, and a frontage of 415ft on to Preston's Road south of Longley Place. The lease was for 99 years from … company also leased additional property along Preston's Road, including four of the Longley Place cottages, from the …
Old and New London
… contributions, not being richly endowed like Guy's, St. Bartholomew's, and St. Thomas's. Fifty years after its … for dabbling in horseflesh, and who, in their inns on the road, talk with great gusto and decision of all that pertains … "George III.," "the fields on the opposite side of the road were to be sold, at the price of 20,000. This sum …
Old and New London
… locality adjoining a bridge, which formerly stood on the road between London and far distant Kensington. There is much … on the west, and the Tyburn on the east, from the great road which ran from Tyburn towards Uxbridge down to the … and probably portions of it are still embedded in the high road a few yards south of that entrance, and opposite to …