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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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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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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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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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A report of the committee of comissioners of the navigation of the Thames and Isis, appointed to survey the rivers from Lechlade to Whitchurch, by the general meeting held 31st of May, 1791.
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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Report from the Committee of the Commissioners of the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis appointed to inquire into and report on the best method of improving and amending the said navigation; from the Eton wharf to South Hope and also what part of Mr. Mylne's plan shoul be adopted. ...
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 1793- Books
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An extract from the minutes of the proceedings of the subscribers to the intended London Canal, presented to the commissioners of the Thames navigation at a general meeting of the said commissioners held at Henley upon Thames in the county of Oxford the 1st day of August 1794. And also a report of the engineers appointed by the said subscribers, to survey and determine in what manner, the navigation may be best improved from reading to Isleworth.
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 1794- Books
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Thames and metropolis improvement plan / by John Martin.
Martin, John, 1789-1854.Date: 1849- Books
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A brief of a bill intended to be brought into Parliament in the next session, for enlarging the powers of the several acts of Parliament, made for improving and completing the navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis from the city stone near Staines in Middlesex to Cricklade in Wilts. Ordered to be printed 23d October 1793.
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 1793- Books
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Sir, You are desired to meet the committee for improving the navigation of the River Thames, and for preventing encroachments on the said river, on board the navigation barge, at Staines, on Saturday, the 7th day of July 1798, at eight o'clock in the morning, and proceed from thence down the river at nine precisely, ...
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: [1798]- Books
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A rule, order, or bye law, to be observed and kept by the bargemasters, ... concerned in the navigating ... any barge, boat, or vessel, on the rivers Thames and Isis, ... ordered at a general meeting of the Commissioners, ...
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 1786]- Books
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Considerations on the present state of the navigation of the River Thames, from Maidenhead to Isleworth; and also on the utility and Advantage of a navigable canal, from Boulter's Lock, near Maidenhead to Isleworth; proposed by the Corporation of the City of London, and the Commissioners of the Upper District, in the Year 1770; agreeable to the survey of Messieurs Brindley and Whitworth.
Truss, Charles, -1814.Date: Printed in MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The present state of the Thames considered; and a comparative view of canal and river navigation. By William Vanderstegen, Esq.
Vanderstegen, Wm. (William).Date: 1794- Books
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Observations on the present state, and possible improvement of the navigation and government of the river Thames. By Frederick Page, Esq.
Page, Frederick, 1769-1834.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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Rules, orders, bye-laws, and regulations, to be observed and kept by the bagemasters, pound-keepers, horse-towers, cost bearers, bargemen, watermen, and other persons concerned in the navigating, working, haling, drawing, or towing of any barge, boat, or vessel on the rivers Thames and Isis, from the city stone above Stains, in the county of Middlesex, to the town of Cricklade, in the country of Wilts, made, resolved on, and ordered at a general meeting of the Commissioners, appointed for putting in execution an Act of Parliament made in eleventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, King George the Third, for improving and compleating the said navigation, held at Great Marlow, in the county of Bucks, on Saturday the twenty seventh day of September, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty three.
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: [1783]- Books
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Extracts from the navigation rolls of the rivers Thames and Isis. With remarks, pointing out the proper methods of [reducing] the price of freight. By a commissioner.
Commissioner.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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An Act for the speedy and effectual preserving the navigation of the river of Thames, by stopping the breach in the levels of Havering and Dagenham in the county of Essex; and for ascertaining the coal-measure.
Great Britain.Date: 1714]- Books
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Report on the proposed canal navigation, forming a junction of the Rivers Thames and Medway: with general estimates, &c. By R. Dodd, engineer.
Dodd, Ralph, 1756-1822.Date: 1799- Books
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Report of a survey of the River Thames, between Reading and Isleworth; and of several lines of canals projected to be made between those places: with observations on their comparative eligibility. By John Rennie, civil engineer.
Rennie, John, 1761-1821.Date: 1794- Books
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Report from the Committee of the Honourable the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the progress made towards the amendment and improvement of the navigation of the Thames and Isis, in consequence of the several acts passed for that purpose; and also into the amount of the receipts and expenditure and of the state of the trade on the said rivers.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1793- Books
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An act to explain, amend, and enlarge the powers of so much of two acts passed in the eleventh and fifteenth years of the reign of His Present Majesty, for improving and compleating the navigation of the rivers Thames and Isis, from the city of London to the town of Cricklade, in the county of Wilts, as relates to the navigation of the said rivers from the boundary of the jurisdiction of the city of London, near Staines, in the county of Middlesex, to the said town of Cricklade.
Great BritainDate: 28 Geo. III. 1788- Archives and manuscripts
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- Books
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An essay to prove that the jurisdiction and conservacy of the River of Thames, &c. is committed to the Lord Mayor, and City of London, Both in Point of Right and Usage, BY Prescription, Charters, Acts of Parliament, Decrees, upon Hearing before the King, Letters-Patents, &c. &c. To which is added. A brief Description of those Fish, with their Seasons, Spawning-Times, &c. that are caught in the Thames, or sold in London. With Some few Observations on the Nature, Element, Cloathing, Numbers, Passage, Wars, and Sensation, &c. peculiar to Fish in general. And, Also, Of the Water Carriage on the River Thames, to the several Parts of the Kingdom; with a List of the Keys, Wharfs, and Docks, adjoining to the same. By Roger Griffiths, Water-Bailiff.
Griffiths, Roger.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Pictures
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Civil engineering: construction drawings for the Thames Embankment. Coloured drawing, 1865.
Date: 1865Reference: 44536i- Pictures
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Civil engineering: construction drawings for the Thames Embankment. Coloured drawing, 1865, after Sir J. Bazalgette.
Date: 1865Reference: 44535i