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Old and New London
… lease was taken from the City of London of some adjoining land, forming altogether an area of about four acres, on …
The Environs of London
… reign of Edward the First 1. Boundaries. Extent. Nature of land and foil. Brick. Fields. Land-tax. The parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-Green 2, extends … made in 1703, that it then contained about 550 acres of land, besides that which was occupied by buildings; this …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… streets off Hackney Road. The original scheme included land to the north fronting Hackney Road, which proved too … population had been reduced by 44 per cent and railway land by 37 per cent, only to produce a 'dying inner city' … building was enormous. Much of the open space was derelict land and the need was for investment in attracting business …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the next 40 years building overwhelmed all the empty land and intensified on existing estates. Rebuilding was … Old Bethnal Green Road west of the green, was nursery land in 1842, when the Church acquired the eastern 3½ a., … for a church, St. James the Less, 69 and soon surrendered land on the northwest of the estate for a workhouse. 70 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… its symbolic importance as the heart of the East End, the land of the outcast, attracting writers and social reformers … was a vestryman, guardian, and trustee of the Poor's Land, which in 1889 he tried to free for new parochial … where it crossed Red Cow and Byde estates. 33 The surplus land on each side was leased for 80 years in building plots, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 96 No building followed, as it did under similar leases of land farther south, and the lease had apparently lapsed by … estates, although it was contemplated on Sotheby's land. 5 More sustained activity began in 1786, when … Wilmot or Lovell, most were probably for building on their land. Five houses, however, built in 1788 by Lealand (Leland) …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Merceron in 1978. 39 In 1994, together with the Poor's Land charity, they were jointly administered by trustees … the site in St. John Street was sold to the G.E.R. and land was leased in Gloucester (later Parmiter) Street where a … John Ham to build 6 almshouses for the company. Ham leased land in St. John Street from Elizabeth Carter on the same …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Lond. (1746). Lond. Gaz. 29 Nov. 1870, p. 5444; Edwards, Land. Street Improvements, 47 and plan XI. Guildhall MS. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Possibly excepting parts of Eastfield, all open-field land had been inclosed by 1652. 35 Demesne land, nearly 400 a., then covered more than half Bethnal … 38 Farmers were almost all lessees, who usually leased land in adjacent blocks from more than one owner. In 1703, of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and subscriptions, after failure to obtain part of Poor's Land on green. Gothic bldg. with adjacent B and G depts. and …