and 2D. O'Connor, 1921 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
accommodation acres amalgamation appointed barges basin berths Bill Blackwall canal capital stock cargoes carried cent century chairman charges charter coal colliers Company's competition connexion Conservators construction Corporation debenture stock directors discharge dividend duties East and West East India Company England English entrance export favour feet fleet funds George Hibbert Greenland Dock important increased India Dock Company interest Isle of Dogs Joint Committee King labour land legal quays legislation lock London and St London Bridge London Company Lord merchants Millwall Millwall Dock monopoly mooring navigation owners Parliament Port of London privileges proprietors purpose question railway rates regulations reign revenue river Royal Albert Royal Albert Dock scheme shipowners ships Sir John Hall steamers Surrey Thames tide Tilbury timber tion tons traffic Trinity House undertaking Victoria Victoria Dock Wapping warehouses warehousing West India Dock West India Docks wharfingers wharves whilst wool
Fréquemment cités
Page 48 - In one single street, named the Strand, leading to St Paul's, there are fifty-two goldsmiths' shops, so rich and full of silver vessels, great and small, that in all the shops in Milan, Rome, Venice and Florence put together, I do not think there would be found so many of the magnificence that are to be seen in London.
Page 40 - All the cloth-workers of strange lands, of whatsoever country they be, which will come into England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland within the king's power, shall come safely and surely, and shall be in the king's protection and safe-conduct, to dwell in the same lands choosing where they will...
Page 106 - Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain ; THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PITT First Lord Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury And Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer GEORGE HIBBERT, ESQ., the Chairman and ROBERT MILLIGAN, ESQ., the Deputy Chairman of the WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY The two former conspicuous in the Band Of those illustrious Statesmen Who in either House of Parliament have been zealous to promote The two latter distinguished among those chosen to direct, AN UNDERTAKING Which, under the...
Page 118 - XLIV. entrance bason of the London docks, undertaken by private subscription, for the greater accommodation and security of shipping, commerce, and revenue, within the port of London, and pursuant to an act passed on the 20th day of June, Ann.
Page 106 - At the expense of public-spirited individuals, Under the sanction of a provident legislature And with the liberal co-operation of the Corporate Body Of the City of London For the distinct Purpose Of complete security and ample accommodation (Hitherto not afforded) To the shipping and produce of the West Indies at this Wealthy Port THE FIRST STONE WAS LAID On Saturday, the twelfth day of July, AD 1800 by the concurring hands of THE...
Page 73 - In this situation of affairs we should be extremely wanting to ourselves, if we neglected to improve the favourable opportunity which this general tranquillity gives us, of extending our commerce, upon which the riches and grandeur of this nation chiefly depend. It is very obvious, that nothing would more conduce to the obtaining so public a good, than to make the exportation of our own manufactures, and the importation of...
Page 45 - ... among the wines in ships and cellars sold by the vintners, a public cook shop; there eatables are to be found every day, according to the season, dishes of meat, roast, fried and boiled, great and small fish, coarser meats for the poor, more delicate for the rich, of game, fowls, and small birds. If there should come suddenly to any of the citizens friends, weary from a journey and too hungry to like waiting till fresh food is...
Page 15 - East-Saxons, who are divided from Kent by the river Thames, and border on the Eastern sea. Their metropolis is the city of London, which is situated on the bank of the aforesaid river, and is the mart of many nations resorting to it by sea and land.