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Survey of London
… first Duke's achievement as the replacement of hundreds of old and often dingy houses by solid expensive new ranges of … the houses of such people as these, and in those of such old families as were still able to afford to compete at the … 'in many cases of rebuilding it is impossible to let the old tenants rebuild. The tenants would not be equal to it', …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… next, and an assignment was made in their favour "on the old custom of London, and on the old and new customs of Boston, Kingston-upon-Hull, Lynn, … and Hartlepool, also on a moiety of the old custom of Southampton (because with assent of the Bardi, …
Survey of London
… No. 33 is a baker's shop, with two storeys above of old brickwork and a later attic. No. 37 has a shop and a …
Old and New London
… Annexation to the CityAn Icelander's Account of Old London BridgeThe Story of Olaf's Destruction of the … St. Saviour's Priory Church, in Bermondsey Abbey, in the old "Tabard" Inn, in the Globe and other theatres on … the once royal palace at Kennington, in the Mint and the old Marshalsea, we shall find a rich mine of archological …
Survey of London
… Tillard in January 1741/2. 180 But in July 1748 four old messuages still stood on a frontage of ninety-six feet at …
Survey of London
… originally only one room deep although No. 30 has an old weather-boarded extension at the back (figs. 22, 23). …
Survey of London
… Folgate High Street corner containing the fragment of the old gateway, and the southern side of the corner moved back … Westminster Abbey. It is said that he was the last of the old-time prosperous master silk weavers, and on his death in … living in the High Street towards the cost of removing the old watch-house. 129 A covenant in the lease of 1744 provided …
Survey of London
… William. But the first and most radical change of the old precinct lay-out was made during the ownership of the St. … was moved one house-width northward at this time. The old entrance to the precinct and priory churchyard was … building on new foundations in London. 1 But the old lay-out still existed in 16812 (see Plate 2). In November …
Survey of London
… lease, and that of No. 4, gave Wood liberty to pull down old houses and build new brick houses to 'range even' with …
Survey of London
… 191418 war by its freedom from through-traffic. In 1909 an old silk manufactory existed at the back of No. 32, then … the pavement. 29 In 1781 the Commissioners for paving the Old Artillery Ground claimed that the posts at the eastern … so as in 1789 the Norton Folgate Commissioners asked the Old Artillery Ground Commissioners either to narrow the …