London Bridge needed the third a new Blackfriars plan
A foreign reader would see London as too narrow with only two bridges and question why Parliament granted leave for a Blackfriars bridge two years ago and saw no progress. The writer urges urgent action, argues public benefit from a central river crossing, notes East End opposition, and warns of public indifference and waste without a new bridge. The piece ends with local notices on marriages and a fraud case at the India House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laspres Vo
Thames
London - Bridge
Westminster
Blackfryars
London
Europe
Korroy
Black-fryats
Bow-church
Exeter
Court
Bloomsbury
Queen Squares
Ormond-street
Hatton Garden
Holborn
Glerkenwell
Smithfield
Ohm Street
Aldersgate
Gripplegate
Westminster Bridge
Black Bryars
Metopolis
Black Fryars
Gambling at a Covent Garden House Ends in Ruin
A letter-writer narrates a scene at a Covent Garden house where three well dressed men, known to be gamblers, lure a youth and a stranger into games for small sums and then larger bets. The sharper tilts the odds, wins steadily, and the watch is traded for three guineas before the battered man departs, later found to be in bankruptcy. The note also reports a Dutch ship attacked by a French privateer, a London merchant’s marriage, and other brief notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covent Garden
Boerhort
Havre de Grace
Oleron
Keating
Waterford
New-York
John Kirwan
London
Admission Rules for General Hospital at Batu Historic Notice
The document outlines admission conditions for the General Hospital at Bath. It requires a local physician description of the patient case with a poverty certificate, then a leave letter from the Bath Register and a Parish Certificate, plus three pounds caution money. Soldiers may join via command officer certificate, with similar conditions. Poor entrants without proper case description are treated as vagrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Credic
Raust
Bath
Perfon
Comey
Navigation scheme meeting on Wey River at Guilford
On May 26 1756 a notice invites noblemen gentlemen clergy and freeholders of Surrey Sussex and Hampshire to meet at William Savages Red Lion Guilford on June 11 at ten in the forenoon. They will discuss extending navigation from Guilford to Godalming and any lands or mills affected are asked to present their interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surrey
Sussex
Hampshire
William Savage
Guilford
Wey
Godabaine
Lease of Grocers Manor in Londonderry to be offered
The Warden and Commonalty of the Mystery of Grocers of London announce they will lease the Manor of Grocers with appurtenances and estate in Londonderry, Ireland, for three lives and sixty one years at 760. Proposals sealed by October 14 to the Grocers Hall Court of Assistants in London or to agents in Dublin, Coleraine, or Londonderry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grocers-Hall
Fileven
Han
John ‘Xander
Grocers Hall
London
Redmond Kane
Bolon Street
Dublin
Alderman Alexander
Lontonderry
William Kinkead
Coleraine
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Clapham Church
de Bous
Miss Loubier
John Lewis Loubier
Robert Perrott
Brussels
Capt
Perrott
Germany
Jane Williams
Poultry Compter
Fion
Joseph Wriglesworth
India-house
George Higginson
John Maddin
St. Catherine’s
Batu
John Edmondson
Sadler
Uyer Brook Street
Grosvenor Square
Southampton-Street
Covent- Garden
Paris
Lyons
Joan Sparkes
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