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Cardiff Records
… until the middle of the nineteenth century. In some few old towns the municipal offices are still termed the Booth …
Cardiff Records
… of Life and is usually called the Crux Ansata. It has from old times been used by the Sovereigns of Europe as the symbol … The Taff being the largest river is represented by an old man with silver hair and beard, while the other two …
Old and New London
… BuildingDecorations and PortraitsFamous MastersA Bit of Old Wall. Stow describes a Jewish quarter near the Tower. … 1500. From the mouths of the figures rise labels (as in old caricatures), with pious invocations of "Libera nos," and … of Christ. The earliest legend connected with this very old church is one relating to Edward I. That warlike king had …
Old and New London
… the PoetA Strange Corruption of a NameSeething LaneThe Old Navy Office. Of Tower Hill, that historical and blood-stained ground to the north-west of the Tower, old Stow says:"Tower Hill, sometime a large plot of ground, … and wealth had not yet set in strongly westward. An old plan of the Tower in 1563 shows us the posts of the …
Old and New London
… cravings of national expenditure. Letting alone the old Celtic ring-money of the ancient Britons, and the rude … About this coinage there is the following story. An old prophecy of Merlin had declared that whenever English … coinage metal. In one of his plain-spoken Saxon sermons, old Latimer denounced the custom of having ecclesiastics …
Survey of London Monograph
… for the Valuer's Department, which still occupied the old Spring Gardens building. The location of the medical … branch post office. a Preferred scheme extending from the old line of Chicheley Street to Westminster Bridge Road, … ends of Belvedere Road, connected the new building to the old. Although revised, the essential form of the new …
Old and New London
… and Suggestions for Enlarging and Improving the Old House before its Destruction by FireSelection of the … TowerThe Fresco PaintingsThe House of LordsSite of the Old House of CommonsThe New House of CommonsThe Speaker's … Tower, and Vicissitudes of "Big Ben." The site of the old Royal Palace at Westminster is now occupied by the Houses …
Survey of London
… indicates that it was resumed again in 1857, still at the old address in Golden Square, but now with an additional office in the City, at Old Jewry Chambers. From 1860 to 1868 the latter was …
Survey of London Monograph
… died after a short illness. 19 He was only 50 years old. In 1931 the Council ordered a bronze plaque to be set up … the Poor Law authorities meant that it had to retain the old Spring Gardens building, which was occupied by the …