Memorials of Temple Bar; with some account of Fleet street, and the parishes of st. Dunstan and st. Bride, London |
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... Fleet Street , with all its interesting associations , should have hitherto escaped the historian's pen ; and this is the more surprising because there is no street in the City of London - perhaps in the world - which can boast of such ...
... Fleet Street , with all its interesting associations , should have hitherto escaped the historian's pen ; and this is the more surprising because there is no street in the City of London - perhaps in the world - which can boast of such ...
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... Fleet on the west was not only , as its name implied , a rapid river , but ... street called London Wall , in Cripplegate Churchyard , at the back of ... Fleet - street then the truly country road to Westminster . Another sepulchral ...
... Fleet on the west was not only , as its name implied , a rapid river , but ... street called London Wall , in Cripplegate Churchyard , at the back of ... Fleet - street then the truly country road to Westminster . Another sepulchral ...
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Theophilus Charles Noble. cery Lane , in Fleet Street , evidently showing , from the condition of the timber , that the ground of old was so marshy as to compel this support . Outside Temple Bar the ... Fleet Street, evidently showing, ...
Theophilus Charles Noble. cery Lane , in Fleet Street , evidently showing , from the condition of the timber , that the ground of old was so marshy as to compel this support . Outside Temple Bar the ... Fleet Street, evidently showing, ...
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... Fleet Street , many of them not merely local , but of national importance . In 1228 , a certain Henry de Buke , slaying one Le Ireis le Tylor - perhaps Irishman the Tyler in the street by Fleet Bridge , fled to the Church of St. Mary ...
... Fleet Street , many of them not merely local , but of national importance . In 1228 , a certain Henry de Buke , slaying one Le Ireis le Tylor - perhaps Irishman the Tyler in the street by Fleet Bridge , fled to the Church of St. Mary ...
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... Fleet River ( now a City sewer under Farringdon Street ) , and the little village of Charing , five hundred years . ago . We shall see that Fleet Street and the Strand were thus early by no means an insignificant highway , however bad the ...
... Fleet River ( now a City sewer under Farringdon Street ) , and the little village of Charing , five hundred years . ago . We shall see that Fleet Street and the Strand were thus early by no means an insignificant highway , however bad the ...
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