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… panic at civil unrest led to the hasty construction of cavalry barracks in several English towns, the beginning … of this system was a legacy of the civil strife and constitutional upheavals of the seventeenth century. … in the Crimea indirectly focused attention on the state of army establishments at home. In 1857 the Barracks …
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… made its proposal to demolish the Victorian buildings and erect a new barracks on the same site. Writing in the following February, William Hare, the Secretary of State for War, dismissed the old buildings as 'completely out …
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… Knightsbridge Barracks The Victorian Barracks, 1878-1965 The Victorian Barracks, … to T.H. Wyatt, the winner (with his brother M. D. Wyatt) of the cavalry barracks competition of 1855. a In doing so … predecessor. The competition scheme had the men's quarters and stables along three sides of a large quadrangle, in the …
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… CHAPTER IV Knightsbridge Green Area Redevelopment after the Second World War robbed the Knightsbridge Green area of much of its character, substituting soulless large … intact: the narrow passageway of Knightsbridge Green, and the enormous bulk of Park Mansions at Scotch Corner the …
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… Green Area Knightsbridge Green Knightsbridge Green The encroachment of building over the village green at Knightsbridge (part of … nineteenth century, when a cattle-market was still held and there was even a maypole. An inn, then called the Sun, …
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… Post-War Redevelopment Post-War Redevelopment Between 1955 and 1960 office-building greatly altered the appearance of the Knightsbridge Green area (fig. 27). The opportunity …
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… Street Raphael Street Raphael Street was laid out on part of the former estate of the gunmaker Durs Egg by Lewis Raphael … descent, Raphael was a dairy farmer with a mansion and a splendid estate at Bush Hill Park, Edmonton. In …
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… High Road Until 1903, the properties along the south side of Knightsbridge between Brompton Road and Trevor Street were … houses of three storeys, two windows wide, both in a state of some dilapidation. 25 They were then the … with a rather overbearing Jacobethan ceiling, a colonial-looking ground-floor lounge, and in the basement a …
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… North Side: Parkside to Albert Gate Court Building on the north side of Knightsbridge as far west as Knightsbridge Barracks is … to the east (previously part of St Martin-in-theFields), and St Margaret, Westminster, to the west. The buildings on …
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… to Albert Gate Court Albert Gate Albert Gate The creation of Albert Gate in the early 1840s by the greatest speculative … in the case of No. 2, which, unlettable in its original state, stood empty for many years. H. G. Davis damned them … had toured the English provinces, before returning to America in 1850, where P. T. Barnum displayed it at his …