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Survey of London
… vaults under the Piazza arcades and providing water and drainage. The annual return from rents was about 805 in 1637. …
Survey of London
… development doubtless worsened the shortcomings of the drainage and sanitary contrivances. In 1854 a particularly …
Survey of London
… Forty-seven per cent of the houses had only cesspool drainage, often of the most primitive kind, 26 and after an …
Survey of London
… of new houses were obliged by statute to provide proper drainage and 'sufficient' sanitary conveniences. Thereafter …
Survey of London
… Commonwealth, the completion of the development, providing drainage and made-up roadways, was evidently thought …
Old and New London
… and after the year 1847 the abolition of cesspools and the drainage of houses into the sewers had been made compulsory, … were taken for the construction of a system of main-drainage, by means of which the sewage is conveyed to a more harmless distance. Of this system of drainage we have already spoken at length in our chapter on …
A History of the County of Somerset
… subaerial erosion occurred on a large scale. The Severn drainage may have been defined; and there can be little doubt … severance of such outliers may take place. Subterranean drainage and erosion in the first instance lead to the … escarpments. This broad vale was trenched by the Severn drainage and afterwards widened by estuarine and marine …
A History of the County of Somerset
… all directions and only began to be defined as a result of drainage works. The southern limit with Street and Butleigh …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the powers of a Local Board of Health in order to improve drainage and water supply, and thereafter employed a surveyor …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… wheelLarge paddle wheel used for raising water, in fen drainage. ScramasaxShort, heavy, one-sided sword; also a …