On Sunday Night last, a Parcel of Link-Men, who generally ply about Temple-Bar, made a sham Quarrel near that place, and got a great number of people together, several of whom had their pockets pick’d, by another Gang of Roques, who mingled with the Crowd, as has been very often ...
He purchased a 26-square-mile parcel of raw desert along the lake's eastern shore. McCulloch wanted to grow his tiny company town into a thriving city and tourist destination. His friend Cornelius Vanderbilt “C.V.” Wood, who was known for designing Disneyland, planned and developed the ...
The “island” – which on a modern map was located just to the south of the street known as Bermondsey Wall West, east of Mill Street, west of George Row and north of Wolseley Street, was home to a notorious slum or “rookery” between the 18th and early 19th centuries, It was most...
Thomas Pearson, lately employed as office keeper in the office of his Majesty’s Quarter-Master-General, stood indicted for fraudulently altering, in a bill from the coach-office of the George Inn, Southwark, the sum of 3s 1d to 13s 1d for the carriage and porterage of a parcel from H...
Footnote34 In 1756 Plenius was arrested for debt in respect of a bond owned to one Mistress Jane Aldworth (as well as other creditors), which he had incurred at Cope's instigation some years before. He firmly believed that Cope was the driving force behind his arrest, and, as we shall...
Changing the event's name from the ‘Notting Hill Carnival’ to the ‘London Notting Hill Carnival’ is part and parcel of this heterogeneity. It is undoubtedly what Jago and Shaw (1998) define as a hallmark event because it is now synonymous with the Notting Hill area and also the city ...
The public famously is said not to know the difference between Under- and Overground anyway – as witness the notorious claims that West Croydon was suddenly more accessible to (North-)Londoners when it appeared on the Tube map. Graham H says: 15 October 2017 at 22:55 @Malcolm – no ...
He designed to the north west of the garden the five-storey School for Naval Architects (also known as the science schools),[51] now the Henry Cole Wing in 1867–72. Scott's assistant J.H. Wild designed the impressive staircase[52] that rises the full height of the building, made ...
I’m walking the Bakerloo line from Harrow & Wealdstone in far north-west London to Elephant & Castle in the south-east. It’s a cool, overcast day in October when I begin – the perfect weather for walking. Nevertheless, things begin to go wrong almost immediately. ...
For the last fortnight they have been leaving in crowds from the West End, and many of the citizens are also beginning to move. They frighten themselves like a parcel of children. The comet seemed to many a sign of great disaster." Cyril laughed. "If it could be seen only in London ...