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Survey of London
… cut between them. Here, until the urban density of King's Cross looms close, architectural value is primarily … at around 275 ft as from Rodney to Cumming Street, or again from Calshot Street to Killick Street or from there … Langston Architects and opened in 2003. A detached nursery with curving geometries and polycarbonate facings …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of the Thomas a Becket public house, was known as Polltree or Polled tree in the 15th and 16th centuries, and as Poulter's corner in 1896. 4 The north part of the parish lay on the … in the parish and in 1862 there were two. 71 A nursery at Salvington in 1869 included pleasure grounds, 72 …
Old and New London
… "Dark Ages"The Beginning of Westminster SchoolHenry VIII.'s Additions to the FoundationThe School as founded by Queen … Christendom in the Middle Ages, whenever a bishop's see or a large abbey was founded, a school for the instruction of … tales transferr'd, the fourth pursues Books more sublimely penn'd, more noble views: Here Virgil shines; here youth is …
Old and New London
… Westminster St. James's Park CHAPTER V. ST. JAMES'S PARK. "A spark That less … he forbade all his subjects of every degree either to hawk or hunt within those boundaries. Though little more than … and the first two Stuarts, the park was little more than a nursery for deer, and an appendage to the Tilt-yard of …
Old and New London
… AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. "No mead so fit For courtly joust or tourney brave." Cavalier Song. Origin of the Word … Fields in the time of Charles I.Westminster FairSt. Edward's FairTothill StreetStrutton GroundSouthern, the Dramatic … in the Horseferry Road, on the site of the beforementioned nursery. In 1830, the Vauxhall Road was not entirely built …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Wheatenhurst or Whitminster Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 the … the tenants. The value of the estate had declined from 100 s. before the Conquest to 30 s. 63 In 1220 there were again … shop was one of two motor garages on the main road. A nursery garden, the Western Forestry Co., had been …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… first element in the name may be an allusion to the wells or springs that occur at the site. 2 A now deserted hamlet … carried out in the late Dark Ages or following William I's harrying of 1069-70. The village as then laid out may have … when he also leased part of the glebe and established a nursery. 67 The house is said to have been demolished c. …
Survey of London
… appearance of the Palace in the early part of Charles II's reign. The building operations of that monarch no doubt … (see Plate 5). Plans of the Palace. There are three plans (or rather three versions of the same original survey) of … wainscot in ye matted Gallery by ye Dutchess of Yorks new nursery." ( Ibid., 5/9, January, 16667.) The work of erecting …
Old and New London
… Placethat is past: For since the Cardinal fell that title's lost; 'Tis now the King's, and called Whitehall." … of Buckingham. The moment that we pass out of the Strand, or make our way from the Victoria Embankment into Charing … Coventry chatting over a map of America with Sir William Penn. In February, 1686, as he tells us in his "Diary," John …
A History of the County of Northampton
… 40 by the union of two previously separate parishes, Wick (or Wyke) Dive and Wick Hamon, which were already distinct … Dive outside Whittlewood. 69 In 1639, as part of Charles I's attempts to enlarge the forest far beyond the traditional … smaller pieces of open field, named Hale Hole Fields, Penn Bush Fields, Culver Field and Park Corner Field, of …