Download or read book London s New River written by Robert Ward and published by Phillimore. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is what will become the authoritative account of the creation of the New River in the 17th century, a channel from Hertfordshire to Clerkenwell just north of the City of London, which supplied the city and much of built up London north of the Thames with much needed fresh water for about two hundred years. It includes entirely new material as well as illustrations not previously used.
Download or read book London s Lost Rivers written by Paul Talling and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with surprising and fascinating information, London's Lost Rivers uncovers a very different side to London - showing how waterways shaped our principal city and exploring the legacy they leave today. With individual maps to show the course of each river and over 100 colour photographs, it's essential browsing for any Londoner and the perfect gift for anyone who loves exploring the past... 'An amazing book' -- BBC Radio London 'Talling's highly visual, fact-packed, waffle-free account is the freshest take we've yet seen. A must-buy for anyone who enjoys the "hidden" side of London -- Londonist 'A fascinating and stylish guide to exploring the capital's forgotten brooks, waterways, canals and ditches ... it's a terrific book' - Walk 'Pocket-sized, beautifully designed, illustrated and informative - in short a joy to read, handle and use' -- ***** Reader review 'Delightful, informative and beautifully produced' -- ***** Reader review 'A small gem. A really great book. I can't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'Fascinating from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************************ From the sources of the Fleet in Hampstead's ponds to the mouth of the Effra in Vauxhall, via the meander of the Westbourne through 'Knight's Bridge' and the Tyburn's curve along Marylebone Lane, London's Lost Rivers unearths the hidden waterways that flow beneath the streets of the capital. Paul Talling investigates how these rivers shaped the city - forming borough boundaries and transport networks, fashionable spas and stagnant slums - and how they all eventually gave way to railways, roads and sewers. Armed with his camera, he traces their routes and reveals their often overlooked remains: riverside pubs on the Old Kent Road, healing wells in King's Cross, 'stink pipes' in Hammersmith and gurgling gutters on streets across the city. Packed with maps and over 100 colour photographs, London's Lost Rivers uncovers the watery history of the city's most famous sights, bringing to life the very different London that lies beneath our feet.
Download or read book Rivers of London written by Ben Aaronovitch and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10th Anniversary Edition of Midnight Riot by #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch, the first book in the international bestselling Rivers of London series! Restored to its original British title Rivers of London, this Author's Preferred Edition includes revised text never before seen by US readers and a new introduction by the author. My name is Peter Grant and until recently I was just another probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right thinking people as the Metropolitan Police and by everyone else as the filth. My only concerns in life were avoiding a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - We do paperwork so other coppers don't have to - and where to get a hot coffee while on late shift. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from a man who was dead, but disturbingly voluble and that brought me to the attention Chief Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in Britain. And that, as they say, is where the story really starts. Now I'm in plain clothes and the first apprentice wizard in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated. Now I'm dealing with nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the River Thames and digging up graves in Covent Garden - and that's just the routine stuff. Because there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious, vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair. The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's fallen to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying. Which, I don't mind telling you, would involve a hell of a lot of paperwork.
Download or read book The History of the London Water Industry 1580 1820 written by Leslie Tomory and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did pre-industrial London build the biggest water supply industry on earth? Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had water connections—making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. In this richly detailed book, historian Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London’s water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand, particularly in the city’s wealthy West End. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London’s water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks. The city’s water infrastructure even inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks. The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820 explores the technological, cultural, and mercantile factors that created and sustained this remarkable industry. Tomory examines how the joint-stock form became popular with water companies, providing a stable legal structure that allowed for expansion. He also explains how the roots of the London water industry’s divergence from the Continent and even from other British cities was rooted both in the size of London as a market and in the late seventeenth-century consumer revolution. This fascinating and unique study of essential utilities in the early modern period will interest business historians and historians of science and technology alike.
Download or read book The Lost Rivers of London written by Nicholas Barton and published by 3RD EDITION. This book was released on 2016 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Description of the River Thames c with the City of London s Jurisdiction and Conservancy Thereof Proved Both in Point of Right and Usage by Prescription Charters Acts of Parliament Decrees written by Roger Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conclin s New River Guide Or A Gazetteer of All the Towns on the Western Waters written by George Conclin and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Metropolis Water Bill written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Metropolis Water Bill and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London s River written by Michael Leapman and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law Reports of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting written by Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Chancery Division and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New River A Legal History written by Bernard Rudden and published by . This book was released on 1985-05-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the New River Company. It gives a highly complex and comprehensive analysis of the complicated legal problems encountered from the company's inception in the in the first decade of the seventeenth century to its municipalization and conversion to a property company at the turn of the twentieth century. The problems of water supply, hygiene and even general business matters are examined in a relatively narrow framework. As s legal history, this book is full of technical terms. This book, however, is not without merits. It contains interesting chapters on shares, in which tracing the progress of some of the company stock through some of the various hands is discussed, as well as governance and finance yields.
Download or read book The New British Traveller Or A Complete Modern Universal Display of Great Britain and Ireland Being a New Complete Accurate and Extensive Tour Through England Wales Scotland Ireland the Isles of Man Wight Scilly Hebrides Jersey Sark Guernsey Alderney and Other Islands Adjoining to and Dependent on the Crown of Great Britain and Including a Valuable Collection of Landscapes Views County maps c Also a Acomplete Book of the Roads a List of All the Fairs and a Variety of Other Useful and Entertaining Particulars The Whole Published Under the Immediate Inspection of George Augustus Walpoole Esq Assisted in the Articles Respecting Wales by David Wynne Evans F R S In Those Descriptive of Scotland by Alexander Burnet LL D And in Such as Relate to Ireland c by Robert Conway A M written by George Augustus Walpoole and published by . This book was released on 1784* with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring the New River written by Michael Essex-Lopresti and published by . This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New River is neither new nor a river but a 400-year-old man-made waterway between Ware and Stoke Newington. This book should be of interest to local historians and those who wish to walk the canal.
Download or read book The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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