Format:
1 Online-Ressource (226 Seiten)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781789257540
Note:
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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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Managing the existing houses -- Removing the houses -- Survey of the houses on London Bridge, 1604-83
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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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gerhold, Dorian London Bridge and Its Houses, C. 1209-1761 Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited,c2021 ISBN 9781789257519
Language:
English
Keywords:
London Bridge
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Architektur
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Haus
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Geschichte 1209-1761
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