London Vanished and VanishingA. & C. Black, 1905 - 294 sider |
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... marked the northern limitations . On a plan dated 1802 Mile End appears to be in the country , and most of the present South London was market garden or marsh . Even during the writer's childhood the City was still old fashioned ...
... marked the northern limitations . On a plan dated 1802 Mile End appears to be in the country , and most of the present South London was market garden or marsh . Even during the writer's childhood the City was still old fashioned ...
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... marked in a Record Office map as the " Kynges Hed . " In some deeds very kindly lent to the writer many years ago by Mr. G. Eliot Hodgkin , F.S.A. , the famous collector , whose family for some generations possessed the property , many ...
... marked in a Record Office map as the " Kynges Hed . " In some deeds very kindly lent to the writer many years ago by Mr. G. Eliot Hodgkin , F.S.A. , the famous collector , whose family for some generations possessed the property , many ...
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... marked in the ancient plan attributed to Agas . On the extreme confines of the Clink Liberty , where it touches Paris Garden , and a short distance east of the site of the Swan Theatre , an inn called the Falcon was standing until the ...
... marked in the ancient plan attributed to Agas . On the extreme confines of the Clink Liberty , where it touches Paris Garden , and a short distance east of the site of the Swan Theatre , an inn called the Falcon was standing until the ...
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... marked by Bridgewater Square , which is in this parish . It was before the head of this family at Ludlow Castle , his official residence as President of the Council of Wales , that Milton's masque of Comus was performed in 1634 , Lawes ...
... marked by Bridgewater Square , which is in this parish . It was before the head of this family at Ludlow Castle , his official residence as President of the Council of Wales , that Milton's masque of Comus was performed in 1634 , Lawes ...
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... , from 1847 onwards : the garden and basin are marked distinctly in Strype's map of 1720 . From Crosby Square a passage leads to Great St. Helen's , which some years ago was remarkably picturesque 64 LONDON VANISHED AND VANISHING.
... , from 1847 onwards : the garden and basin are marked distinctly in Strype's map of 1720 . From Crosby Square a passage leads to Great St. Helen's , which some years ago was remarkably picturesque 64 LONDON VANISHED AND VANISHING.
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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.