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Old and New London
… I? I let's 'em." Dr. John Coakley Lettsom was the son of a West Indian planter, and was born in the year 1744. Having … to a Yorkshire apothecary. He afterwards returned to the West Indies, and settled as a medical practitioner at … not few, some from Pelew, And wondrous mangel-wurzel! "West Indian bred, warm heart, cold head, The City's first …
The Environs of London
… and the detached part of Battersea about Penge, on the west; and by Lambeth on the north. The land is divided in … and consists of a nave, chancel, and two aisles: at the west end is a small embattled tower, composed of the same … singular form, being the section of an hexagon. The south-west part of the church was much enlarged in the year …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… borough is divided into the five wards of East Barnwell, West Barnwell, Market, Trinity, and St. Andrew; and the … library; the first forming the north, and the others the west, side of a grand quadrangle, which has Great St. Mary's … sides of a small court, the philosophy school being on the west, the divinity school on the north, and the schools for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… it is an actual or potential nodal point of east and west land-traffic and one of the chief terminals of … mostly to the N. and N.W. of Castle Hill, and in the Bourn Brook valley, as the map shows. No through east-west traffic to the midlands was, we may affirm, possible in …
Survey of London
… where now Camden Road makes a fresh junction. From east to west, Pratt Street and King (later Plender) Street were … East of Royal College Street is the Veterinary College and west of it the four-acre paddock belonging to the college. … with semi-circular apse and a tower and portico at the west end, the main external features being in Portland stone. …
Old and New London
… all honours and offices; but he represented Stockport, the West Riding, and Rochdale from 1841 down to his death, in … 1,200 persons. The "Bedford Arms," in Grove Street, on the west side of the High Street, has been a tavern of some note … originally two fields, called Upper Meadow and Upper Brook Meadow, and was purchased from the Earl of Camden and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with a handsome stone portico of the Ionic order at the west end, above which rises a circular turret with a cupola. … has been successfully used in scrofulous cases. Camel, West (All Saints) CAMEL, WEST ( All Saints), a parish, in the … to the north of the town, where the road crosses a small brook, is a place called "Slaughter Bridge" in allusion to …
Survey of London
… to the open end was extended in each case to east and west beyond the building lines of the long north-south sides. … which remained in his hands were the south side to the west of No. 23, mostly still undeveloped, and two older … side (Nos. 913) were all occupied by 1840 and those on the west side (Nos. 4247) by 1842. On the south side No. 14 had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extending from the street to Trillmill stream. On the west it had a similar strip which was acquired by Balliol in … are also of teakRhodesian teak, polished a deep red. The west wing was completed in Sept. 1935, and was handed over … as Master. When circumstances permit, it is hoped to add a west wing corresponding to the existing east wing, on the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… that cantaloons were a WOOLLEN - STUFF associated with the West Country with 1711 as the earliest date of reference …