The Rebuilding of London After the Great FireJonathan Cape, 1940 - 333 pages |
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Thomas Fiddian Reddaway. СНАРTER VIII FLEET CANAL AND THAMES QUAY THE Rebuilding Acts included two projects - the Fleet Canal and the Thames Quay - which require treatment in some detail . Interesting in themselves , they are also ...
Thomas Fiddian Reddaway. СНАРTER VIII FLEET CANAL AND THAMES QUAY THE Rebuilding Acts included two projects - the Fleet Canal and the Thames Quay - which require treatment in some detail . Interesting in themselves , they are also ...
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... Fleet Canal was partly a brave improvement and partly an attempt to convert a grave nuisance into the benefit it had once been . In former times the Fleet river had been navigable up to Holborn Bridge , but as the years passed it had ...
... Fleet Canal was partly a brave improvement and partly an attempt to convert a grave nuisance into the benefit it had once been . In former times the Fleet river had been navigable up to Holborn Bridge , but as the years passed it had ...
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... Fleet river , but it is nothing more . The great public quay which was to run level and open along the north bank of the Thames is barely foreshadowed . Farther on , however , there is evidence that it had once had its place in the Act ...
... Fleet river , but it is nothing more . The great public quay which was to run level and open along the north bank of the Thames is barely foreshadowed . Farther on , however , there is evidence that it had once had its place in the Act ...
Contents
PREFACE | 15 |
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON | 21 |
PLANS FOR A NEW LONDON | 40 |
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