The Rebuilding of London After the Great FireJonathan Cape, 1940 - 333 pages |
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Page 31
... clear the Bridge and its approaches from rubbish and so restore land communication with the Surrey bank.1 The streets , a more formidable problem , were ordered to be cleared by the citizens themselves , each removing the rubbish from ...
... clear the Bridge and its approaches from rubbish and so restore land communication with the Surrey bank.1 The streets , a more formidable problem , were ordered to be cleared by the citizens themselves , each removing the rubbish from ...
Page 65
... clear the rubbish . The rubbish therefore remained and , since all the parties were scattered and inaccessible , coercion was almost impossible . Both Commissioners and City were unwilling to set a precedent for condoning evasion by ...
... clear the rubbish . The rubbish therefore remained and , since all the parties were scattered and inaccessible , coercion was almost impossible . Both Commissioners and City were unwilling to set a precedent for condoning evasion by ...
Page 279
... clear that no other way was practicable . His picture of the city in 1668 , its very worst time , is a gloomy commentary on the progress it was then making . In the New Year it was ' if anything more than an Embryo ' , ' but in its ...
... clear that no other way was practicable . His picture of the city in 1668 , its very worst time , is a gloomy commentary on the progress it was then making . In the New Year it was ' if anything more than an Embryo ' , ' but in its ...
Contents
PREFACE | 15 |
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON | 21 |
PLANS FOR A NEW LONDON | 40 |
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