The Rebuilding of London After the Great FireJonathan Cape, 1940 - 333 pages |
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... England has ever seen . ' The writer , a German then resident in London , was aghast before a catastrophe which , between the second and the sixth of September 1666 , had engulfed wellnigh the whole of that city . Those present turned ...
... England has ever seen . ' The writer , a German then resident in London , was aghast before a catastrophe which , between the second and the sixth of September 1666 , had engulfed wellnigh the whole of that city . Those present turned ...
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... England . The great contractor , prepared to undertake any building from a bridge over Sydney Harbour to a vast ' World Exhibition ' , was a man of the distant future . In taste and design , the educated ' amateur ' was still supreme ...
... England . The great contractor , prepared to undertake any building from a bridge over Sydney Harbour to a vast ' World Exhibition ' , was a man of the distant future . In taste and design , the educated ' amateur ' was still supreme ...
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... England as a whole , ' and there was no general boom to keep the provincial artisan at home . By tradition , craftsmen in the building trade were more ready to move than those in other trades , and , as London seems already to have been ...
... England as a whole , ' and there was no general boom to keep the provincial artisan at home . By tradition , craftsmen in the building trade were more ready to move than those in other trades , and , as London seems already to have been ...
Contents
PREFACE | 15 |
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON | 21 |
PLANS FOR A NEW LONDON | 40 |
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