The Rebuilding of London After the Great FireJonathan Cape, 1940 - 333 pages |
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... feet ; High Streets , seventy feet ; Some other Streets fifty feet and others forty two ; The least Streets thirty feet or twenty five ; Alleys , if any , sixteen feet . ' This done , there arose the question of how the Commissioners ...
... feet ; High Streets , seventy feet ; Some other Streets fifty feet and others forty two ; The least Streets thirty feet or twenty five ; Alleys , if any , sixteen feet . ' This done , there arose the question of how the Commissioners ...
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... feet on each side of Fleet Bridge and fifty feet on the south side of Holborn Bridge , the facing was to be done with well - burnt brick four and a half feet thick at the foundation , tapering upwards as the City might think fit . The ...
... feet on each side of Fleet Bridge and fifty feet on the south side of Holborn Bridge , the facing was to be done with well - burnt brick four and a half feet thick at the foundation , tapering upwards as the City might think fit . The ...
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... feet , Thames Street enlarged to take the heavy carts from the wharves , and Water Lane , St. Dunstan's and St. Mary's Hills ' to carry them on into the streets above . The Bridge foot and its approach down Gracechurch Street and Fish ...
... feet , Thames Street enlarged to take the heavy carts from the wharves , and Water Lane , St. Dunstan's and St. Mary's Hills ' to carry them on into the streets above . The Bridge foot and its approach down Gracechurch Street and Fish ...
Contents
PREFACE | 15 |
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON | 21 |
PLANS FOR A NEW LONDON | 40 |
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accounts amount appointed authorities Books brick building burnt Charles Charles II Cheapside churches citizens Citty City Cash City Lands Committee City of London City's coal dues commissioners Common Council Company compensation concerned Corporation of London cost Court of Aldermen debt Diary difficulties disputes feet Fire Court Fleet Canal Fleet River foot funds given granted Gresham College ground Guildhall Lib Guildhall Recs Hall houses Ibid improvements interest King Lane leases London Bridge Ludgate markets matter ment Merchant Taylors Newgate Orphans owners P.C. Reg paid parish Parliament Paul's payments petition possible Privy Council Puddle Dock rack rent reason Rebuilding Act received records regulations rents Repert restoration revenue river Royal scheme second Act Selby staking streets suburbs survey surveyors tenants Thames Quay Thomas timber tion trade trouble walls wharfing wharves whilst whole widening workmen Wren Wren's