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Old and New London
… towards Spittlefields, and it soon became a continuous row of buildings on both sides of the way. "Petticoat Lane," …
Old and New London
… in Bridewell. There, in a long, dilapidated, tiled shed, a row of female prisoners are beating hemp on wooden blocks, …
A Dictionary of London
… Street East out of Middlesex Street, at No. 118, to Sandy Row, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory). First …
Survey of London
… "about 1710 Mr. William Allingham, mathematician in Canon Row, demanded 500 to repair this dial, but his offer was … House to the narrow passage leading to Channell Row." By this means a strip of ground about 80 feet wide was … in the Privy Garden, but in the drawing the northernmost row has been done away with. The sundial remains in its …
Survey of London
… the width of the passage (at that time called Caddick's Row, see p. 184) was increased to 27 feet. On the building of … In connection with the extension eastward of Caddick's Row as Whitehall Place, a width of 60 feet between the …
Old and New London
… now become changed to "Whitehall Gardens"a name given to a row of houses in the rear of the Banqueting House, which, … as already stated, has risen Richmond Terrace, a noble row of houses overlooking Montagu House and Whitehall … Street, is a narrow thoroughfare called Cannon (or Canon) Row, which has a little history of its own. We learn from …
Old and New London
… This part of the procession was flanked by eighteen row-boats of River Fencibles. Then came the state barges of … eight of the City companies, flanked by the like number of row-boats with Harbour Marines. The funeral barge was rowed … country had been for many years carried on in the double row of mean and unsightly houses which formed old Downing …