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Survey of London: Volume 38, South Kensington Museums Area
At the core of this volume is a study of the estate in South Kensington and Westminster acquired under the auspices of Prince Albert by the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1851, and developed as a remarkable cultural centre for the applied arts and sciences. In many ways the great sequence of world-famous institutions described here - such as the Victorian and Albert Museum, the National History Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Imperial Institute - is a memorial to the Prince Consort's vision. The book sets out his role in the creation of South Kensington as a centre for art and scholarship, and the parts played by others, such as Queen Victoria herself, Captain Francis Fowke, and Sir Henry Cole (the dynamic first Superintendent of the South Kensington Museum). The High Victorian memorial eventually erected to the prince in Hyde Park is also considered. Part of the Commissioners' estate was used for house building, and the volume describes the development here and on adjoining lands of the great ranges of Italianate stucco mansions in and around Queen's Gate, Elvaston Place and Cromwell Road, which today give South Kensington its architectural flavour. The emergence after 1870 of the red-brick 'Domestic Revival' idiom in reaction to all this 'builders' classical'-style housing is here exemplified by half-a-dozen important houses and flats by Richard Norman Shaw.
A History of the County of Somerset
… Rogers, one of the chief landowners in 1861 and 1866. 29 Albert Rogers had succeeded by 1872, and William Rogers's …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… by Sir Charles Robinson, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum: these include a staircase with scrolled …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… mesne lordship passed with the Toft estate to the heirs of Albert de Neville (d. by 1236) and to the prior of Barnwell, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to meet in cottages and in the open air. A cottage in Albert Street was particularly popular as a meeting-place. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… had been built on a small field west of Little London: Albert Street, which still contains a few of its original …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… soon became offensive; some, at the bottom of Victoria and Albert Streets, were very near dwelling-houses. The sewage of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Association was formed in 1908 after a visit from Albert Mansbridge. 37 The first classes were held by R. V. …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… and picture frame maker (183539). [D] Tappey, Albert & Alfred, 13 Upper York St, London, carver and gilder …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… reign of Henry II. by the marriage of Agnes, daughter of Albert de Gresley, who was also lord of Oxnead. On the death …