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JETTIED WOODEN HOUSES These houses are like those in the City of London in 1666. Many of the images in JT Smith’s book Ancient Topography of London show medieval or Tudor buildings that survived into the 18th and early 19th centuries. The City of London had many houses in this style at the time of the Great Fire.  Timber-framed buildings from this period were often ‘jettied’. This means that the upper storeys leant out into the street and were supported on brackets. Jetties increased the fire ri Tudor Houses, Thomas Smith, John Thomas, London Wall, The Great Fire, Victorian London, London History, Fleet Street, Brick Lane

JETTIED WOODEN HOUSES These houses are like those in the City of London in 1666. Many of the images in JT Smith’s book Ancient Topography of London show medieval or Tudor buildings that survived into the 18th and early 19th centuries. The City of London had many houses in this style at the time of the Great Fire. Timber-framed buildings from this period were often ‘jettied’. This means that the upper storeys leant out into the street and were supported on brackets. Jetties increased the…

18th century london theatre - Google Search Historical Romance, Old London, Regency London, A Night At The Opera, London History, London Theatre, Regency Era, Theatre Arts, Historical Society

Summary Evelina is on a mission and that mission is to avoid Lord Orville at all costs. In the past this mission would be more easily accomplished but since being guests together, Lord Orville is difficult to avoid and Evelina is finding it difficult to come up with excuses out of his invitations. Evelina is further upset when she finds that she is included in an anonymous poem, Beauties of the Wells as the most beautiful woman in town. Lord Orville’s polite jealousy is further revealed when…

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By David Blackwell A popular form of aristocratic entertainment in mid-18th-century London was to stroll round the city’s ornamental pleasure gardens, both those at Vauxhall (launched in 1732 with a masked gala) and its more fashionable rival, Ranelagh Gardens (opened in 1742 and now the site of the annual Chelsea Flower Show).

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