London Vanished and VanishingA. & C. Black, 1905 - 294 sider |
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... land immediately to the south of the Thames , was early reclaimed and occupied by the Romans , to whom the importance of holding this approach to London must at once have become evident . Many discoveries have been made of Roman remains ...
... land immediately to the south of the Thames , was early reclaimed and occupied by the Romans , to whom the importance of holding this approach to London must at once have become evident . Many discoveries have been made of Roman remains ...
Side 2
... land in the direction of the south - east coast , from a ferry which we may assume to have been replaced by a bridge during the Roman occupation , for , although no Roman foundations have come to light , the discovery of thousands of ...
... land in the direction of the south - east coast , from a ferry which we may assume to have been replaced by a bridge during the Roman occupation , for , although no Roman foundations have come to light , the discovery of thousands of ...
Side 33
... land called Widflete , which Robert Marmion , son of a follower of William the Conqueror , gave to Ber- mondsey Priory in 1113. It was originally in the once large parish of St. Margaret , Southwark , and now forms the parish of ...
... land called Widflete , which Robert Marmion , son of a follower of William the Conqueror , gave to Ber- mondsey Priory in 1113. It was originally in the once large parish of St. Margaret , Southwark , and now forms the parish of ...
Side 34
... land , belonging to the Priory , afterwards the Abbey , of Bermondsey , was held successively by the Knights Templars and others , later by the Knights Hospitallers , but the superior rights of the Abbey do not appear to have been ...
... land , belonging to the Priory , afterwards the Abbey , of Bermondsey , was held successively by the Knights Templars and others , later by the Knights Hospitallers , but the superior rights of the Abbey do not appear to have been ...
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... land during the early days of the Renaissance , but it had the supreme merit of being thoroughly suit- able for its purpose . Outside there was little dis- play , though cut brick , a charming material , often helped the effect . The ...
... land during the early days of the Renaissance , but it had the supreme merit of being thoroughly suit- able for its purpose . Outside there was little dis- play , though cut brick , a charming material , often helped the effect . The ...
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adjoining afterwards ancient appears arch Barnard's Inn Bartholomew Bell belonged brick building built called carved Chancery Charles Christ's Hospital Church of St churchyard City Clifford's Inn coaching coffee-house COLOUR PAINTED crypt described destroyed doorway Duke Earl east side Edward eighteenth century entrance famous feet Fetter Lane Fire Fleet Street floor Friars front galleried garden gateway ground Guildhall Museum hall Helen's Henry High Street Holborn ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR Inn of Chancery Inner Temple Ireland Yard Kensington King's late Laurence Poultney Hill Leather Lane LIBRARY Lincoln's Inn Fields Lord Manor mansion Mayor mediæval Merchant Taylors Nando's neighbourhood Nevill's Court Newgate occupied old house original passage Paul's perhaps picturesque plaster pulled Queen rebuilt remains residence seventeenth century Sir John south side Southwark staircase standing Staple Inn stone stood Stow Tavern Temple Bar Thames tower UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA west side White Hart William Wren writer
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Side 8 - In the Borough especially, there still remain some half dozen old inns, which have preserved their external features unchanged, and which have escaped alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer, old places they are, with galleries, and passages, and stair-cases, wide enough, and antiquated enough, to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories...
Side 113 - You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.
Side 202 - There when they came, whereas those bricky towres, The which on Themmes brode aged backe doe ryde, Where now the studious Lawyers have their bowers There whylome wont the Templer Knights to byde, Till they decayd through pride...
Side 158 - Love played Jobson in the farce, and Miss Pope played Nell. When we came out of the house it rained hard. There were then few hackney-coaches and we got both into one sedanchair. Turning out of Fleet Street into Fetter Lane, there was a sort of contest between our...
Side 178 - Holborn, Smithfield, and Whitechapel bars. Afterwards there was a house of timber erected across the street, with a narrow gateway and an entry on the south side of it under the house.
Side 197 - When the name gives an occasion for an ingenious sign-post, I would likewise advise the owner to take that opportunity of letting the world know who he is. It would have been ridiculous for the ingenious Mrs. Salmon to have lived at the sign of the trout ; for which reason she has erected before her house the figure of the fish that is her namesake.
Side 42 - We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Side 178 - When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me, ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur ISTIS.
Side 210 - Inn," and here, likewise, seemed to be offices, but, in a court opening inwards from this, there was a surrounding seclusion of quiet dwelling-houses, with beautiful green shrubbery and grass-plots in the court, and a great many sunflowers in full bloom. The windows were open ; it was a lovely summer afternoon, and I...
Side 4 - In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde ; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste.