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Old and New London
… of his DeathFelton's KnifeOld HousesSpenserGreat Tower Street and Peter the GreatBakers' HallThomson the PoetA … state criminals, a good deal north of Tower Street and a little northward of Legge Mount, the great north-west corner … Poplar, Blackwall, Bromley, Old Ford, Mile End, Bethnal Green, &c. An alteration was effected by the Reform Bill of …
Old and New London
… ought to have weighed over 18,450 pounds, only weighed a little more than half. This single re-coinage, therefore, … a hundred persons resident within its wallsforming a little colony, with peculiar habits, tastes, and class …
Survey of London Monograph
… Preferred scheme extending from the old line of Chicheley Street to Westminster Bridge Road, showing the bridges … consisted of two L-shaped blocks following the Chicheley Street-York Road-Westminster Bridge Road edge of the proposed … with the north front of Knott's building, and Chicheley Street moved further north as part of the Charing Cross …
Old and New London
… to the Octagon Hall, and these steps cover the site of the little lobby at the back of the old House, called 'Solomon's … House; and all being of ample dimensions, and covered with green morocco leather, harmonising delightfully with the warm … all by saying, "That speech I wrote in a garret in Exeter Street." Responding to their amazement, he explained"I never …
Survey of London
… of Norland Square and northward roughly as far as Penzance Street, was surrounded on three sides by a brick wall and on … villa 'intended for erection on a leasehold estate at a little distance out of London'. The building illustrated is … Beneath this there is a robustly designed font in which green marble and glazed tiles figure prominently. Until 1948 …
Survey of London Monograph
… of the Education Library, and went ahead regularly, if a little slowly. The main contractors were Gee, Walker & … Hall and Education Library Externally, there was little change to the pre-war design, with the exception of … Africa) and Hopton Wood replaced Black and Gold, Tinos Green and Black Belgian c For room 158, where Purbeck and …
Survey of London
… a fringe of small tenements was springing up on the street frontage. After the Dissolution, Bedford House, … St. Paul's, Covent Garden, was made a separate parish, the street frontage between Covent Garden and the Strand remained … nineteenth century. Then Exeter Change, east of Burleigh Street, was pulled down and the street frontage westward to …
Old and New London
… of Hoxton and Islington, and on our right that of Bethnal Green. Stretching away in an easterly direction is the … Heath the roadway trends to the north by Mare (or Meare) Street, on the east side of London Fields, forming the … which open upon the arcades are occupied; indeed, very little in the way of business is ever carried on there. An …
Old and New London
… placed so many good beasts in our market, apparently but little distressed with their long voyage. But this, perhaps, … Middlesex. This prison had its origin in the old Giltspur Street Compter, of which we have already given some … to be seen at the entrance of the village from Page Green; and when they died off, a few years ago, they were …
Old and New London
… which, as regards the company and the way of living, are little else than sections of London removed into a purer … This district is approached from the City by Bishopsgate Street and the broad and open thoroughfare called Kingsland … follows: "John Ball, at the Boarded House, neere Newington Green: his Penny;" and the sign is depicted upon the coin by …