The Rebuilding of London After the Great FireJonathan Cape, 1940 - 333 pages |
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Page 141
... changes , and in many cases they struggled against them . These struggles created further problems . The City was not simply administering a series of mandatory re- forms , worked out to the last immutable detail . It was not even a ...
... changes , and in many cases they struggled against them . These struggles created further problems . The City was not simply administering a series of mandatory re- forms , worked out to the last immutable detail . It was not even a ...
Page 216
... changes in work and design . This control on his part went beyond matters of planning and lay - out . He was actively and continuously concerned with technicalities of construction and details of charges . Doubt- less he was influenced ...
... changes in work and design . This control on his part went beyond matters of planning and lay - out . He was actively and continuously concerned with technicalities of construction and details of charges . Doubt- less he was influenced ...
Page 246
... Changes had to be made in order to adapt it to the new conditions . The juries for the Mayor's and the Sheriffs ' courts , for example , could no longer be drawn from the twelve divisions which had formerly provided them , but had to be ...
... Changes had to be made in order to adapt it to the new conditions . The juries for the Mayor's and the Sheriffs ' courts , for example , could no longer be drawn from the twelve divisions which had formerly provided them , but had to be ...
Contents
PREFACE | 15 |
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON | 21 |
PLANS FOR A NEW LONDON | 40 |
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