Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places, by W. Thornbury (E. Walford). |
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... reigns talked politics and fashionable news ; thence to Percy Cross , and Walham Green and Parsons ' Green , and to ... reign - that of George IV . , " observes a writer in 1831- " Lord Grosvenor has built a new and elegant town on the ...
... reigns talked politics and fashionable news ; thence to Percy Cross , and Walham Green and Parsons ' Green , and to ... reign - that of George IV . , " observes a writer in 1831- " Lord Grosvenor has built a new and elegant town on the ...
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... reign of Edward III . ( 1361 ) , we find Knightsbridge spoken of as " a town ; " for during the plague in that reign a royal edict was issued from the Palace at Westminster , to the effect all events , cut off , at a very early date ...
... reign of Edward III . ( 1361 ) , we find Knightsbridge spoken of as " a town ; " for during the plague in that reign a royal edict was issued from the Palace at Westminster , to the effect all events , cut off , at a very early date ...
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... reign of his son , Edward I. , if we may trust Mr. Lysons , Knightsbridge was a manor belonging to the Abbey . To their lands here , in the course of the next half century or so , the monks added others at Westbourne , and both were ...
... reign of his son , Edward I. , if we may trust Mr. Lysons , Knightsbridge was a manor belonging to the Abbey . To their lands here , in the course of the next half century or so , the monks added others at Westbourne , and both were ...
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... reign of Elizabeth , and to have been used by her on her visits to Lord Burleigh at Brompton . The house is referred to in the Tatler , No. 259 , and it is said to be the only inn that bore that sign . " At the ' Fox and Bull , " writes ...
... reign of Elizabeth , and to have been used by her on her visits to Lord Burleigh at Brompton . The house is referred to in the Tatler , No. 259 , and it is said to be the only inn that bore that sign . " At the ' Fox and Bull , " writes ...
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... reign , from which it appears that it generally had about thirty - five inmates , and that it was supported by the contri- butions of charitable persons , being quite unen- dowed . The patients , it appears from this docu- ment ...
... reign , from which it appears that it generally had about thirty - five inmates , and that it was supported by the contri- butions of charitable persons , being quite unen- dowed . The patients , it appears from this docu- ment ...
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