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Royal river : power, pageantry and the Thames / edited by Susan Doran with Robert J. Blyth.
Date: [2012], ©2012- Pictures
Chelsea Old Church viewed from the Surrey bank, with boats on the river. Engraving by Letitia Byrne, 1813, after J. P. Neale.
Neale, John Preston, 1771?-1847.Date: 1 March 1815Reference: 21123i- Books
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The great Thames barrage / by T.W. Barber.
Barber, Thomas Walter, -1917.Date: [1903]- Books
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Third report from the Select Committee upon the improvement of the Port of London. Ordered to be printed 28th July 1800.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1800]- Pictures
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A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: [1828?]Reference: 12079i- Books
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Purification of the Thames / a letter by F.O. Ward, addressed to William Coningham.
Ward, F. O. (Frederick Oldfield)Date: [1858]- Pictures
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Chelsea Old Church and bridge: viewed from Battersea on the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Engraving.
Date: 1784Reference: 20776i- Books
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Considerations on the idea of uniting the Rivers Thames and Severn through Cirencester, with some observations on other intended canals.
Date: 1782- Books
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Essays, for the month of December, 1716. To be continued monthly. By a Society of gentlemen. For the Universal Benefit of the People of England.
Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Pictures
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H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, being towed from Greenwich to Chatham by tugs. Wood engraving by J. Greenaway, with letterpress and view of St Paul's Cathedral in title area, 1872.
Date: 1872Reference: 30318i- Pictures
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The Thames as a gateway to foreign trade routes. Etching by J. Barry, 1791.
Barry, James, 1741-1806.Date: May 1 1791Reference: 12117i- Books
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Thames and metropolis improvement plan / by John Martin.
Martin, John, 1789-1854.Date: 1849- Books
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The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, Containing complete sailing directions for ships, both outward and homeward bound, through the River Thames, and all its entrances, the British and Bristol Channels, on both coasts, including all the harbours; the coast of Wales; West Coasts of England and Scotland; the South coasts of Ireland; and the islands of Man, Scilly, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, &c. Also the East Coast of Great Britain, with the Orkney, Shetland, and Western Islands; the Coasts of Flanders, Holland, and Germany; the North Sea, Cattegat, Sound, Baltic, gulf of Finland, and northern navigation to the White Sea. And all the useful tables, viz. tables of the magnetic courses, and distances from place to place, for all the Coasts of Europe, and many of Africa and Asia: with the variations. A table of the distances by water, in miles, from London to the principal ports in Great Britain, Ireland, part of France, Flanders, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, throughout the Baltic and the Mediterrean. Copious tables of latitudes and longitudes, from the best and latest observations: and improved and corrected tide tables; to which are subjoined, easy methods of sinding the Epagt, the moon's age, and the day of new moon. A new and correct edition: improved and augmented by many important additions and observations from new surveys. By John Diston, M. Downie, master in the Royal Navy, and Alexander Ingram,teacher of Navigation and mathematics in Leith, and author of the newly much improved and corrected edition of Simson's Euclid; as also of the principles of geography, and of the corrected and enlarged edition of Hutton's arithmetic and key.
Diston, John.Date: 1800- Books
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The life and remarkable conversion of Thomas Bennett; wherein is related the singular deliverances the Lord has given him in answer to prayer, when laden with sin and in bondage, filled with fears and unbelief. Also the many robberies that he has formerly committed in town and country, and upon the river Thames; and his ill usage to his parents: together with the trials he has experienced during seven years' transportation, which he suffered for the crimes he has been guilty of; and how the Lord, under that consinement, brought him to know himself and the Lord Jesus.
Bennett, Thomas, seaman.Date: 1796- Videos
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Some activities of the Bermondsey Borough Council.
Date: [1931]- Books
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A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade. Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Houghton, John, 1640-1705.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [i.e. 1727 - 1728]- Books
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Military reflections on the attack and defence of the city of London; Proved by the Author to have been the most vulnerable Part of Consequence in the whole Island, in the Situation it was left in the Year 1794. to which is added, reflections on the loss of Plymouth or Harwich, and on the greater safety of Portsmouth. -Desultory Invasions in various Parts. - District where 3000 men may land, occupy, and maintain for a considerable Time against the whole Force of Britain. - That celebrated Officer, General Lloyd's Abilities and System used in the Defence of the Capital, and his general System on the Defence of Rivers applied to the Thames. - Treatise on Floating Batteries and Gallies. - Treatise on Riflemen, Sharp Shooters, Jaegers, and Chasseurs; the Utility of them in all Countries, and the particular Want of them in this Country and the British Army. - Remarks on Landguard and Tilbury Forts, and other Fortifications. - --Reflections on the Dearness of Bread. - --Proposals how the laborious and industrious Poor might be supplied with Bread at a moderate Price in Times of Scarcity. - --Improper Application of His Majesty's generous Donation of one Pound and a Half of Bread per Day to the Soldier, and how it ought to be applied. - --Including general Remarks on the whole Island. By Lieut. Col. George Hanger. Most respectfully addressed to the Right Hon. Thomas Skinner, Lord Mayor of London.
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824.Date: 1795- Books
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A report and survey of the canal, Proposed to be made on one level, from Waltham-Abbey to Moorfields. Also a report and survey, of a line, Which may be continued from Marybone to the said proposed canal, In Case any suture Design of Navigation to that Place, or the North Side of London, From the Rivers Thames or Coln, should ever take Place. By Robert Whitworth. To which is subjoin'd, An address to the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, and the Worshipful the Aldermen and Common-Council, of the City of London, on the Importance and great Utility of canals in General; The Advantages which may fairly be expected from the canal now proposed; And the Necessity of promoting, near the Metropolis, such Improvements as are now carrying on in the more distant Parts of this Kingdom, as being the true Means of preserving to the Part of London that Superiority in Foreign as well as Country Trade, which it has hitherto enjoyed. By James Sharp.
Whitworth, Robert, active 1773-1797.Date: 1773]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 2 ['HSW Private No.2' with key]
Date: 17 Apr 1888 - May 1890Reference: WF/E/01/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
Building materials marching out of London and forming new built-up areas in the countryside. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: November 1st 1829Reference: 578910iPart of: Scraps and sketches depicting scenes of British life.- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+27.
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Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, Navigable Canal from London to Norwich and Lynn. By subscription, ready for the press, and speedily will be published, Price Five Shillings, half Bound, dedicated, by permission, to Thomas Bernay Brampston and John Bullock, Esqrs. Representatives for Essex; Sir John Rous, Bart. and Joshua Grigby, Esq. Representatives for Suffolk; Sir Edward Astley and Sir John Wodehouse, Barts. Representatives for Norfolk; a treatise addressed to the Nobility, Gentry, Land owners, Merchants, Traders, Farmers, and Manufacturers, of the Cities and Towns in those Counties, and also the City of London. Containing a full and particular account of the numerous advantages which will accrue to them, if a Navigable Canal was immediately cut from London through the interior parts of the above Counties to Norwich and Lynn. Pointing out The advantages which will accrue from such an undertaking, to the Kingdom in general, and to the Cities of London and Norwich, and Town of Lynn, in particular. As also to above sixty market and manufacturing Towns, and near seven hundred Villages, through and near which it is proposed to pass; which communication will always prevent a scarcity or monopoly of Corn or Coals in the London Market. Also, Shewing the amazing saving of land carriage, and the immense numbers of acres of land, now engrossed for growing of horse corn, only for horses employed in land carriage in these three Counties, which may be converted to other uses, as well as be the means of doubling, and in many places trebling, the value of land and produce, by a speedy, easy, and cheap conveyance to a market for consumption or exportation; and a certain and constant supply of oak timber for the royal navy, as 28,000 oak trees are proposed to be planted at proper distances, on the banks of the Canal. Including likewise, An estimate of the whole expence, and mode of raising the money necessary to carry it into execution, on the most easy, certain, and expeditious terms, and the extraordinary interest it will produce. As also a scheme for the repayment of the principal in a few years, and for rendering the shares of original Subscribers, a valuable and immense Freehold Income for ever. Illustrated with a Geographical whole sheet map of the passage which the proposed Canal is intended to take through the three Counties: As also with two views; the one of the Duke of Bridgewater's amazing Aquaduct over the River Irwell, in Lancashire, with his Grace's barges sailing thereon, forty feet above the river, and barges also passing under it, and on the river, at the same time: the other the view of the subterraneous passage of the great Staffordshire Canal above a mile under ground, at the great hill called Harecastle. The whole shewing the utility and importance of Inland Navigation. By an Essex Freeholder. At this present time, when the Princes of France, Poland, and Russia, are setting examples of this kind, for the promotion of commerce and agriculture, the Author flatters himself, the above work is not beneath the notice (if not of the Prince) at least of the present Prime Minister, the son of the immortal Chatham. Those Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others, who wish to promote and encourage this useful, instructing, and entertaining Treatise, are requested to transmit their Names as soon as possible, to the Printers of the Norwich, Ipswich, and Chelmsford News-Papers; Mr. Debrett, Bookseller, Piccadilly, or to Mr. Anrdews, Printer and Bookseller, No. 10, Little-Eastcheap, London; as it is intended only to print such a number as to answer the expected demand. N. B. No Subscription Money is desired till the Book is ready to be delivered, which will be on the first of December next at farthest, at which time the Book will be Delivered and the Subscription called for. - The Subscribers Names will be printed, if permitted.
Phillips, John (Surveyor)Date: 1784?]- Videos
Some activities of the Bermondsey Borough Council.
Date: [1931]- Archives and manuscripts
Mellanby, Sir Edward
Mellanby, Edward, Sir, b. 1884.Date: 1896-1974Reference: PP/MEL