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Newspaper

London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Oct 25, 1764

Page

3

Brentford Hunt Meets for Harrow to Epsom Ride

A Thursday gathering of Brentford hunt members began with a hind pulled from their Heffen paddock. The chase went from Harrow on the Hill toward Bushey Park, crossed the Thames, and ended near Epsom after about sixty miles. The same column notes several marriage notices Jesus to the trades in Gray's Inn Lane and Bromley, plus deaths of notable locals, a prison self-harm incident, a house collapse in Cheapside, a Durham church floor discovery, and various local notices and advertisements.

Brentford Hunt Heffen Harrow Toards Bushey-park River Thames Epsom Thomas Palmer Thomas Beach Spicer General Post-office John Haynes Newgae Ont Tueteay Terling Essex Robert Cope Berhnail-green Jenny Godbel Joan Godbolt Ely Terling-hall Benjamin Crowley Gray’s-tnn-lane Jane Tomlyn John Tomlyn Tottenham Bromley Thomas Hodgson Aldgate Anne Tnody Long- Jane Southwark Price Bishopsgate-street Humphreys Wood-treet Cheapside Joseph Willis Brentwood Thursday Marybone Howard Jenkins Norwich Wood’s Close Clerkenwell Francis Burn London Cherry-garden Rotherhithe Edward Wallen T.e Seven Sisters West India Deriford James Wellings Holmes, Plummer King-street Westminster Covent. Garden Sedgfield Durham Marshalsea Bull Court Purple-lane Bright Colchester New Prison George Garrett John Mary Ryan Huffey John Morian Colin St. Bride’s

Norwic Briton laments British civility and urban defects

A reader signs as CIV TIS urging improved public manners and civic planning in London. He recalls historical views of British brutality vs civility, praises recent peace with France, and proposes street widenings and footway improvements in Fleet Street and nearby lanes to reduce accidents and improve comfort. He also notes churchyard walls blocking wide passage and suggests relocating walls to ease carriage traffic.

Horace Edward III Henry V Shemas Elizabeth Famesi Charles II James II Anne George I Auropes Peage France James the Norriu Briton Snow-hiller Fleet- Reet Newgate Holbourn-hill Hatton-gargei Holbourn-bars Holbourn-oiidge St. Sepulchre’ S Andrew’s Undershaft Lawrence Pounteney-line Lawrence Pountney-hills Cloak-lane Dowase-hill St. Michael le Queire Foller-lane Noble-steet Silver-street

Alarm Over Brest Camp and Marine Build Up

A London correspondent reports from Paris of a camp near Brest housing 1,009 men to fortify the harbour and defenses. Dutch and French sources say both French and Spanish powers are expanding naval ports to increase sea strength. The writer questions whether these armaments signal Bourbon aggression and a new war before debt interest on prior borrowings is paid.

Paris Brest Holland France Varius House of Bourbon

Public pavement upgrades urged for Snow Hill area

A 1764 STR item argues for widening narrow footways in Snow Hill and surrounding cells to boost commerce and safety. It notes Cheapside to Ludgate routes and presses for broader paths in Paternoster Row Queen Street Cannon Street Eastcheap Poultry and Lombard Street, linking pavement improvements to public benefit. Greenwich races feature in a separate note with Astronomical Society aims and a 30 cent yearly prize.

London Evening Post Paternofter Row Cheapside St. Paul’s Church-yard Greenwich Hartly Pegasu Haley Monrf. de la Caille Greenwich-hill Gether Fammia Halley Hercules

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