The Rebuilding of London After the Great FireJonathan Cape, 1940 - 333 pages |
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... river had been navigable up to Holborn Bridge , but as the years passed it had gradually deteriorated into a shallow and evil - smelling sewer . Navigation had ceased and , in the middle of the seventeenth century , a not overparticular ...
... river had been navigable up to Holborn Bridge , but as the years passed it had gradually deteriorated into a shallow and evil - smelling sewer . Navigation had ceased and , in the middle of the seventeenth century , a not overparticular ...
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... 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 . The ...
... 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 . The ...
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... river was a main source of wealth , and accommodation had to be provided along its banks for all the major shipping using the port . Despite the East India Company's use of reaches below the Pool , and the growing competition of ...
... river was a main source of wealth , and accommodation had to be provided along its banks for all the major shipping using the port . Despite the East India Company's use of reaches below the Pool , and the growing competition of ...
Contents
PREFACE | 15 |
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON | 21 |
PLANS FOR A NEW LONDON | 40 |
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