Silvertown and Neighbourhood (including East and West Ham): A RetrospectT. Burleigh, 1900 - 95 páginas |
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Abbess acres Albert Docks amongst bank Barking Abbey Barking Creek Barking Road became belonged bought Bow Creek Boyd Bridge building built C. R. Wylie called century Channelsea chapel Creek and Barking Custom House Devil's House Dick Turpin died district Douglas Duke Earl East Ham Eastern ebonite England entrance Essex historian Fanshawe firm Forest Gate Greenstreet House ground gutta-percha Ham Burnels Henry India-rubber inhabitants Kent King Lady land Lethieullier lived Lord Manor manufacture Mare marshes marshland Mathews Messrs miles neighbourhood North Woolwich North Woolwich Railway Northern Outfall Sewer parish church Parsloes Photo Plaistow possessed present Prince Regent's public-house Queen residence river front Roman rubber says ship Silver Silvertown stands Station Stratford Langthorne Street sugar Telegraph Thames Ironworks Thomas tons took tower town vicar Victoria Docks village walls Wanstead House Wanstead Park West Ham Park William Cory writer yard
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Página 37 - My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.
Página 34 - I would go under his window and softly call him : he, after the first time excepted, never failed to put out his head at the first call: thus we talked together, and sojnetimes I was so wet with the rain, that it went in at my neck and out at my heels.
Página 20 - No antiquarian ever had so lively, not to say licentious a fancy as Stukeley ; the idea of the obscure remote past inflamed him like a passion ; most even of his descriptions are rather visions than sober relations of what would be perceived by an ordinary eye ; and never before or since were such broad continuous webs of speculalion woven out of little more than moonshine.
Página 12 - Lue, (for she herself had been well washed in the water,) caused two stone bridges to be builded, of the which, one was situated over Lue, at the head of the towne of Stratford, now called Bow, because the Bridge was arched like a bow; a rare piece of worke; for before that time the like had never been seen in England.
Página 11 - Christiana put a black cloth on my head to preserve me from outrage, and when I used to throw it off, she would torment me both with harsh blows and indecent reproaches ; sighing and trembling, I have worn it in her presence, but as soon as I could withdraw from her sight, I always threw it on the ground and trampled it under my feet.
Página 41 - Dodd, the best and most eloquent preacher in England, and perhaps the most learned clergyman.
Página 34 - ... all the money she had in her house, but he returned her thanks, and told her he had so ill kept his own, that he would not tempt his governor with more, but if she would give him a shirt or two, and some handkerchiefs, he would keep them as long as he could for her sake. She fetched him two smocks of her own, and some handkerchiefs, saying she was ashamed to give him them, but, having none of her sons at home, she desired him to wear them.
Página 34 - House, would have given him all the money she had in the house, but he returned her thanks, and told her that he had so ill kept his own, that he would not tempt his governor with more ; but that if...
Página 44 - ... to any person or persons, that shall discover him, so that he may be apprehended and convicted. Turpin was born at Thackstead, in Essex, is about thirty, by trade a butcher, about five 'feet nine inches high, very much marked with the smallpox, his cheek-bones broad, his face thinner towards the bottom, his visage short, pretty upright, and broad about the shoulders.