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1 online resource |
Contents |
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- The bridge -- Plans and views -- CHAPTER 2 Reconstructing the bridge and its houses -- The roadway -- Widths and depths of the houses -- The cross buildings -- Reconstructing the plan of the bridge and its houses -- Piers and hammer beams -- CHAPTER 3 The houses from c. 1209 to 1358 -- Origins -- The houses in 1358 -- The 'hautpas' of 1358 -- CHAPTER 4 The major buildings -- The chapel -- The stone gate -- The drawbridge tower -- Other structures |
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CHAPTER 5 The houses from 1358 to 1633 -- Houses on new sites -- Merging of plots -- Rebuilding of houses -- The house with many windows -- Nonsuch House -- Enlarging the houses -- Landlord and tenants: leases -- Landlord and tenants: repairs and rebuilding -- CHAPTER 6 Inside the houses in the seventeenth century -- Cellars and shops -- Upper rooms -- Services -- CHAPTER 7 Fires and rebuildings 1633−82 -- The fire of 1633 -- The new building of 1645-49 -- The Great Fire of 1666 and the sheds -- CHAPTER 8 Trading on the bridge -- The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries |
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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Bridge customers -- Booksellers -- From the 1680s to the 1750s -- CHAPTER 9 Families and community -- Bridge families -- The bridge population in the late seventeenth century -- Community -- CHAPTER 10 The great rebuilding of 1683-96 -- The northern end -- Growing traffic and the keep-right rule -- The middle part and the drawbridge houses -- South of the stone gate -- The new houses -- CHAPTER 11 From the fire of 1725 to the removal of the houses -- The fire of 1725 -- The falling in of leases in the 1740s -- The new houses of 1745 |
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Managing the existing houses -- Removing the houses -- Survey of the houses on London Bridge, 1604-83 -- APPENDIX 1 Reconstructing the plan of London Bridge -- APPENDIX 2 The reliability of the views of the bridge -- APPENDIX 3 Tracing the bridge houses back to 1358 -- APPENDIX 4 The hearth tax of 1664−66 -- APPENDIX 5 Rents on the bridge -- APPENDIX 6 The northern end of the bridge -- Notes -- IMAGE CREDITS -- INDEX -- Back Cover |
Subject |
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Buildings
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SUBJECT |
London Bridge (London, England) -- History
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City of London (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc
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City of London (England) -- History
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Thames River (England) -- History
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England -- City of London
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England -- London -- London Bridge
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England -- Thames River
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781789257526 |
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1789257522 |
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9781789257540 |
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1789257549 |
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