Search results for "london"
epub |eng | 2019-12-19 | Author:John Stow [Stow, John]

Frances Cooke, John Martin, Edward Bromflit, esquire, of Warwickshire, 1460; Richard Barnes, Sir Roger Roe, Roger Velden, 1479; Sir James Yarford, mercer, mayor, deceased 1526, buried under a fair tomb ...
( Category: Accounting January 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Gordon Bowers [Gordon Bowers]

CHAPTER 12 BEHIND BARS Mr Justice Moor showed no interest in Project Moscow. He was simply fed up with Scot Young’s procrastination. Clearly irritated, the judge noted the next day: ...
( Category: Organized Crime January 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Julian Sayarer [Julian Sayarer]

She’d been apologising in advance that it was humble and yet, as key turned through lock and door opened, the room shone with all the warmth of a home. A ...
( Category: other January 6,2023 )
pdf |en | | Author: Michael Ball, David Sunderland

( Category: Economic History January 5,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Simpson

* * * MARBLE CAKE This was a great favourite with the Victorians. It is named not for its weight—it is an airy cake—but for its appearance. When cut, each ...
( Category: English, Scottish & Welsh January 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:Linda Stratmann

Mrs Gibbons’ version of events. Elizabeth Gibbons never deviated from her story that her husband had committed suicide, but the medical experts were unanimous in stating that it was impossible ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies January 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Gilly Pickup

MRS SALMON’S WAXWORK SHOP London has offered every kind of entertainment imaginable to paying customers throughout its history. Oddities and curiosities of every kind were on commercial display, from hermaphrodites ...
( Category: Unexplained Mysteries January 5,2023 )
pdf |en | | Author: Norman Moore (ed.)

( Category: Theology January 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Richard Ayres

Eric Bankside I’d just had to get away from Jim. He was getting drunk, and he could be unpleasant company when he was in his cups. He’d been riled at ...
( Category: Literary January 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-02 | Author:Nick Rennison [Rennison, Nick]

In a house on this site, The Swan and Hoop, JOHN KEATS, poet was born 1795 MOORGATE PUBLIC HOUSE, 85 MOORGATE, EC2 CITY OF LONDON On this site formerly stood ...
( Category: Great Britain January 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:James Stourton

The largest and most splendid block in the street was Nos. 18–19, an Italianate pair designed by the office of Charles Barry. Peto’s one-time partner, Grissell, moved into No. 19, ...
( Category: General January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cottrell, Anna;

Bored Women, Beleaguered Men Wolf Suschitzky’s best-known image, Couple in a Lyons (1933), is of a lovers’ spat. The man is leaning over the table slightly, perhaps trying to resolve ...
( Category: other January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Rick Steves & Gene Openshaw

With one of the biggest, most eclectic collections of objects anywhere, the Victoria and Albert (V&A) has something for everyone. It bills itself as a museum for the decorative arts, ...
( Category: Europe January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Victoria R. Williams;

Police officers on the beat in London. The city’s centralized police force (the Metropolitan Police) was established in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel. For this reason, London’s police are sometimes ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Mccormack, Kevin

You may think you have seen this bus before (on page 64) but you haven’t! The livery is almost identical but now the radiator grill and headlamp surrounds are painted ...
( Category: other January 1,2023 )