Posts Tagged ‘1815’

Streets of London – Blackfriars Bridge circa 1815

“This beautiful structure, the most modern of the three bridges which connect the two banks of the Thames at the British metropolis, was erected to the honour of the great William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, whose name and titles are perpetuated in the adjacent places and streets, though the original appellation of Pitt’s Bridge has…

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Streets of London – Portland Place, London 1810-1820

“It is within the memory of some persons, that Parliament-street and Whitehall once formed the finest avenue in the metropolis. Oxford-street was yet but indifferently inhabited, and Portland-place not built. Oxford-street ceased at Mary-le-bonelane: at that spot Tyburn-road began, and for many years presented the sort of humble character of buildings that usually skirt the…

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Streets of London – London Museum, Egyptian Building, Piccadilly, 1815

“The annexed engraving exhibits a view of the Egyptian building lately erected in Piccadilly, by Mr. Bullock, for the purpose of containing his valuable Museum of Natural History, of which we gave an account in a former volume; which, in point of the number, beauty, and variety of the specimens, and the exquisite manner in…

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