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Survey of London
… Cockpit Court, which Strype described in 1720 as 'a small Place, and of no Account, either for Inhabitants or …
Survey of London
… first production of the Incorporated Stage Society took place, with the first performance of Bernard Shaw's You Never …
Survey of London
… made to building tradesmen, and rebuilding sometimes took place even when not required by the Portland lease. …
Survey of London
… of Notting Barns, hardly any building development took place on either estate during the first half of the … Walker's seventeen acres hardly any house building took place, the years 1853 to 1856 being a period of steep decline … also bought some two acres from Blake in the vicinity of Tavistock Crescent and Road, 67 and its solicitor was Frank …
Survey of London
… to Mend Them (1859), the first migrant to this desolate place was Samuel Lake, whose noxious trades of scavenging and … in 1858, and St. James's National Schools in Penzance Place in 1863. 21 St. John's Church was building a school on … 'there were probably as many pigs as human beings in the place'. The density of population had risen to 180 per acre, …
Old and New London
… dislocated his joints, that he instantly died." This took place just before the Duke of Buckingham's assassination by … brought up to the bar, he never practised, and resigned a place in the Ordnance Office because he could not … and its cruelties, that Granville Sharp earned a foremost place in the great bede-roll of our English philanthropists. …
Survey of London
… at least four times a year, in consideration that the said place comonly called the Artillerie garden was of purpose … buildings at the south end of the Ground may have taken place at that time, as there is a reference in 1668 to the … invitation did go to see his new gun tryed, this being the place where the Officers of the Ordnance do try all their …
Survey of London
… St. Mary Spital, and in March 1606/7 he made, as of that place, an assignment of the same lease, and of another lease … 1599 the Jesuit Father Garnet had a house in London in a place called Spital, probably the precinct of St. Mary … The indications that the Spital precinct was a fashionable place of residence are borne out by Stow, who in 1598 wrote …