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St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior view showing scaffolding on the building and the River Thames in the foreground. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
Windsley, H.Date: 1972Reference: 577196i- Books
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Report on the effects of sewage contamination upon the River Thames / by William Odling.
Odling, William, 1829-1921.Date: 1858- Books
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Reprint of report of the committee appointed to take into consideration Mr. Martin's plan for rescuing the River Thames from every species of pollution.
Date: 1836- Books
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The glory of old England.
Date: 1739-40- Pictures
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The Thames river, Pangbourne, England: boats by a jetty on the river. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 575030i- Books
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Town excreta, its utilization : London sewage, shall it be wasted? or economised? : being a plan for the collection and treatment of the faecal matter of towns, for purifying the sewers and rivers, and removing the chief impurities which render them dangerous to the health of communities : with especial and immediate reference to the metropolis, the River Thames, and the Board of Works' main drainage scheme / by Charles F.O. Glassford.
Glassford, Charles F.O.Date: 1858- Pictures
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St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth: from the north bank of the river Thames, in front of New Scotland Yard, traffic on Westminster Bridge in the foreground. Wood engraving, 1871.
Date: 1871Reference: 25049i- Books
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Great-Britain's coasting pilot: In two parts. Being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland, from the River of Thames to the Westward and Northward; with the islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle: likewise the islands of Orkney and Shetland, describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place; the setting and flowing of the tides; with directions for the knowing of any place, and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety. With directions for coming into the channel between England and France. By Captain Greenvile Collins; hydrographer in ordinary to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
Collins, Greenvile, active 1669-1698.Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]- Books
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An abstract of an act, for building a bridge cross the river Thames, from the new palace yard in the city of Wesminster, to the opposite shore in the county of Surrey. To which are added, the terms of insurance for the benefit of the adventurers, from (at least) one half of the Loss they must (otherwise) sustain by their Blanks, in the Lottery for Building a Bridge cross the said River as they are now finally settled and fixed: So as, That the most Unfortunate who shall have four Blanks together, or but one Prize (of Ten Pounds) in his four Insured Tickets, shall have that Prize, And his whole Premium (paid for this Insurance) return'd him by the Bank of England.
Great Britain.Date: 1736- Books
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A true account of the voyage of the Nottingham-Galley of London, John Dean commander, from the River Thames to New-England, Near which Place she was cast away on Boon-Island, December 11, 1710. by the Captain's Obstinacy, who endeavour'd to betray her to the French, or run her ashore; with an Account of the Falsehoods in the Captain's Narrative. And a faithful Relation of the Extremities the Company was reduc'd to for Twenty-Four Days on that desolate Rock, where they were forc'd to eat one of their Companions who died, but were at last wonderfully deliver'd. The whole attested upon oath, by Christopher Langman, Mate; Nicholas Mellen, Boatswain; and George White, Sailor in the said Ship.
Date: [1711]- Books
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Report on the Wey valley floods in relation to public health / by the Consulting Medical Officer.
Surrey (England). County Council.Date: 1913- Books
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'Our water supply' : a discussion for and against the fitness of Thames and river water for domestic use.
Date: 1880- Books
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Outline of a comprehensive plan for diverting the sewage of London and Westminster from the Thames and applying it to agricultural purposes, for improving the navigation of the river, and for establishing a supply of pure water to the metropolis / by John Martin.
Martin, John, 1789-1854.Date: 1850- Books
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Remarks on London: being an exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and the suburbs and liberties contiguous to them, by shewing where every Street, Lane, Court, Alley, Green, Yard, Close, Square, or any other Place, by what Name soever called, is situated in the most Famous Metropolis; so that Letters from the General and Penny-Post Offices cannot Miscarry for the future. An Historical Account of all the Cathedrals, Collegiate and Parochial Churches, Chapels, and Tabernacles, within the Bill of Mortality: Shewing therein the sett Time of publick Prayer, Celebrating the Sacraments, Morning and Evening Lectures, and Preaching Sermons, both Ordinary and Extraordinary; with many curious Observations. Places to which Penny-Post Letters and Parcels are carried, with Lists of Fairs and Markets. What places sends Members to Parliament. To what Inns Flying-Coaches, Stage-Coaches, Waggons and Carriers come, and the Days they go out; lately collected. Keys, Wharts and Plying-Places on the River of Thames. Instructions about the General Post-Office. Description of the great and cross Roads from one City and eminent Town to another, in England and Wales. A perpetual Almanack. The Rates of Caochmen, Chairmen, Carmen, and Watermen. A perpetaul Tide-Table; and several other necessary Tables, adapted to Trade and other Business. All Alphabetically digested; and very useful for all Gentlemen, Ladies, Merchants, Tradesmen, both in City and Country. The like never before extant. By W. Stow.
Stow, William.Date: 1722- Books
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Angling in all its branches, reduced to a complete science: Being the Result of More than Forty Years Real Practice and Sirict Observation Throughout the Kingdoms of Creat Britain and Ireland. In three parts. First, Describing (among other things) the Counties of England, Wales, and Scotland, in alphabetical order; the Rivers and other Waters which they contain; their rise, progress, and curiosities; together with those of Ireland; the Fish they produce, and the parts best adapted for Angling; Intersperied with curious and entertaining incidents and practical remarks never before made public. Secondly, A full description of the different kinds of Fish taken by Angling, &c. their natures, haunts, seasons, spawning-times, baits, biting-times; and how to angle for each; with many curious, useful, and pleasing observations. Thirdly, A list of Artificial Flies (the completest collection ever yet known), which will take Fish in all Waters in each of the above Countries; the materials, and how to make each as described; the most skilful way of throwing the line, and-of managing it when in the water; Night Fly-Fishing; Natural Fly-Fishing, &c. The Whole forming a Work of real Utility, Comprising objects too numerous to be detailed in a Title Page, and of a very different nature from those insignificant little Pamphlets hitherto published, which treat chiefly of angling in the Thames, the New River, and other Waters of equal consequence about London. By Samuel Taylor, gent.
Taylor, Samuel, angler.Date: 1800- Books
Dam the Thames : a matter of sanitation, comfort and economy : a plan for a tideless river in London.
Date: 1936- Books
Providing the essential service at the heart of daily life, health and enjoyment / Thames Water.
Thames Water (Firm)Date: [2013]- Books
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Kearsly's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1776: Containing fifty two pages for accounts, bills due, appointments, and occasional memorandums, with a much greater variety of useful articles than are to be found in any other publication of this kind; particularly, list of holidays in the year 1775. Tables of interest. Value of annuities. Tables for buying and selling by weight or measure. Upwards of seventy things very necessary to be known in various brances of business. A complete term table, with the returns. Distances of towns, villages, &c. upon the River Thames. Manner of producing colours by the mixture of colourless fluids. Ditto by coloured fluids. List of all the cities, towns, and villages in England, with their distances from London, and market-days. List of all the public-officers. List of Bankers. Account of the days and hours for transferring stock. Table shewing the bearing, distance, longest day, and differene of meridians of most of the principal cities in the world, from the city of London. Daily pay of each rank in His Majesty's land forces. Circuits of the judges. The economist; shewing how comfortably a family may live for a little money, also the cheapest way of keeping horses and carriages. Road from Boston to New-York, Phildelphia, Annapolis Maryland, Williamsburg, Virgina, Charles, Town South Carolina, through the country; likewise the names of the towns, forts &c. from the river St. Lawrence to the Missisippi. Weight of gold compared with other metals. Rational amusements, consisting of upwards of thirty curious experiments. A correct list of the two Houses of Parliament, with the officers belonging to each House. Prices of different comodities from the year 1000 to 1760, and a variety of other articles, which may be seen in the table of contents.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: [1776]- Books
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A dissertation on rivers and tides. Intended to demonstrate in general the effect of bridges, cuttings, removing of shoals and imbankments; and to investigate in particular the consequences of such works on the river Thames Respectfully Addressed to the Right Honourable William Beckford, Esq; Lord Mayor of London, Conservator of the River Thames. By Robert Erskine, engineer, &c.
Erskine, Robert, 1735-1780.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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Report of the commissioners appointed to examine into plans for embanking the Surrey side of the River Thames within the metropolis with plan and appendices : presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.
Great Britain. Thames Embankment Commission (Surrey Side)Date: 1862- 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- Pictures
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The Thames river, London: a cross-section of the first tunnel under the river, shipping in the river, and Rotherhithe beyond. Engraving by Silvester & Co., ca. 1830.
Date: [1830?]Reference: 36473i- Books
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Register of tides in the River Thames : taken at Deptford, London Bridge, & Battersea, from 19th June to 19th July, 1849.
London (England). Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.Date: [1849]- Books
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Report on a survey of the River Thames from Boulter's lock to the city stone near Staines and on the best method of improving the navigation of the said River, and making it into as compleat a state of perfection as it is capable of. By Robert Mylne, F. R. S. Engineer
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 24th August 1793- Books
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Rules, orders, and constitutions made by the rulers, auditors, and assistants of the watermen and lightermen of the river of Thames, ...
Company of Watermen and Lightermen (London, England)Date: 1732]