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Survey of London
… Then there are other examples of Piccadilly as a place-name in widely scattered parts of England. Many of … had become possible, and by 1580 enough building had taken place to excite the alarm of the Queen, who issued a … to cease selling beer and tobacco at a house 'near a place there called Pickadilly Hall', 51 and this (so far as …
Survey of London
… of loading, or discharging the vessels which will take place in the Brunswick and new docks'. 25 Little trouble was … reception of visitors at half-past eleven, and by one, the place was crowded with genteel company.' After a 21-gun …
Survey of London
… each hatchway, the goods may be thrown down them, to that place on the stage, where they are to be loaded into the … Corner of the East End, long used as a rallying point and place of public oratory by trade unionists and politicians. …
Survey of London
… to erect two-storey quay sheds to allow unloading to take place under cover. At the same time all fixed hydraulic …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… acted as a refuge for the old and the infirm as well as a place where poor children were taught a little reading and … by the presence of the capital. The City of London was the place in which many of those who supported the schools made … boy with requisite ability could have failed to find a place in some London school'. 39 It would be wrong, however, …
Survey of London
… by the railway companies, the formal conveyances taking place in 1866 and 1867, 2 and as half an acre had already … the work executed by Messrs. Pensom, of Great Portland Place, who have also laid on the gas throughout The … the entrance to No. 161 is actually in Knaresborough Place. He began building the houses in May 1874, 48 but …
Survey of London
… promote speculative building on his lands in 181112 took place in an area in the north-east of his estate extending in … from Earl's Court Road in the east to St. Mary Abbot's Place in the west and bounded on the north by Kensington High … he had built one new house (later numbered 13 Leonard Place) and probably (in accordance with his agreement with …
Survey of London
… One of these, which was later known as No. 14 Leonard Place (on the site now occupied by Nos. 257259 Kensington … acting as foreman, the last recorded court taking place there in 1856. 8 The Edwardes estate in 1812. Based on … however, set the pattern for most of the others which took place during Lord Kensington's lifetime when disaster …
Survey of London
… changed markedly. Substantial changes have, however, taken place on the rear parts of some of the house plots. Most of … Two years earlier, when his address had been Emma Place (now Cope Place) and his designation that of carman, he had begun to …