The Rebuilding of London After the Great FireJonathan Cape, 1940 - 333 pages |
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Page 43
... Houses on new foundations ' were forbidden within three miles of the city wall , and ' for the avoiding of the multitudes of families heaped up in one dwelling house ' old houses in that area were not to be converted into tenements ...
... Houses on new foundations ' were forbidden within three miles of the city wall , and ' for the avoiding of the multitudes of families heaped up in one dwelling house ' old houses in that area were not to be converted into tenements ...
Page 278
... houses in the suburbs , ( and indeed could get no shorter ) and have given great fines , and know not how to put off the houses they have taken , and to reimburse themselves without insufferable loss , and diminution ' : ( op . cit ...
... houses in the suburbs , ( and indeed could get no shorter ) and have given great fines , and know not how to put off the houses they have taken , and to reimburse themselves without insufferable loss , and diminution ' : ( op . cit ...
Page 287
... houses to a channel along the centre of the road . It was they who gave reality to the collector's fearsome threat ... houses in the street , and also passengers that passed to and fro in it ' . Nor was his the only house to create such ...
... houses to a channel along the centre of the road . It was they who gave reality to the collector's fearsome threat ... houses in the street , and also passengers that passed to and fro in it ' . Nor was his the only house to create such ...
Contents
PREFACE | 15 |
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON | 21 |
PLANS FOR A NEW LONDON | 40 |
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