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Survey of London
… The East India Docks The buildings The Buildings Docks needed … in that they were designed to have no warehouse provision at all, because the East India Company had substantial … decade of the nineteenth century under the influence of John Rennie and other leading engineers. Its high compressive …
Survey of London
… The East India Docks The docks The Docks The Import Dock The … that the final dimensions of the Import Dock were settled at 1,410ft by 560ft, impounding 18 acres of water to a … scheme was to build an entirely new lock. 92 In 1839 (Sir) John Rennie and James Walker were asked to comment on the new …
Survey of London
… The east side of Trafalgar Square CHAPTER 5:THE EAST SIDE OF … Salisbury in 16081610 (see pp. 4 and 5). This was the inn at which Ben Jonson was served with good canary by Ralph, the … together with the properties adjoining it, was sold by Sir John Lowther and John Cozance to Nicholas Barbon and others …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… The Education of the Working Classes to 1870 THE EDUCATION OF … of London and Westminster puts the historian of education at something of a disadvantage, especially when he wishes to … by Quakers who sought to implement the ideas set out by John Bellers in 1695 10 for a 'colledge of industry'; the …
Survey of London
… The Edwardes estate East of Earl's Court Road CHAPTER XVIII - … of the workhouse of the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, which abutted on the northern boundary of … Board of Works and the roads were laid out, apparently at Lord Kensington's expense, the money later being recouped …
Survey of London
… The Edwardes estate Edwardes Square area CHAPTER XVII - The … and it was not all let under one building agreement or at the same date, but overall its early development was in … houses when completed and sold. The first purchaser was John Robins, an auctioneer of Covent Garden who had already …
Survey of London
… The Edwardes estate Introduction CHAPTER XVI - The Edwardes Estate: Introduction At the beginning of the nineteenth century the estate … The third major undertaking began in May 1823, when John Dowley, a surveyor, and Robert Tuck, a carpenter, took …
Survey of London
… The Edwardes estate Pembroke Square, Pembroke Gardens and … Kensington on 23 May of that year. The undertakers were John Dowley of Howland Street, Fitzroy Square, and Robert … as clerk of works. He had been promoted to chief surveyor at a salary of 300 per annum in 1817, when he was …
Survey of London
… The Edwardes estate South of West Cromwell Road CHAPTER XIX - … on the west side of Earl's Court Road (see page 239) at the heart of the market gardens of Earl's Court Farm which … Minister of the Kensington Presbyterian Church (later St. John's Presbyterian Church), and his son, D. S. MacColl, who …
Survey of London
… The Edwardes estate Warwick Gardens and Kensington Crescent … outskirts of the metropolis. Building began in 1822, at its northern end, when an elongated square called Warwick … by them, they placed contracts for this purpose with John Smith, plasterer, W. Dutton, plumber and painter, and …