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London Bridge and its Houses c1209 1761 1st Edition by Dorian Gerhold ISBN 9781789257526 1789257522

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Author(s): Dorian Gerhold

Edition: New – Revised

File Details: EPUB, 17.32 MB

Year: 2021

Language: english

SKU: EB-36078060 Category: History - European History Tag: Dorian Gerhold

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ISBN 10: 1789257522
ISBN 13: 9781789257526
Author: Dorian Gerhold

London Bridge lined with houses from end to end was one of the most extraordinary structures ever seen in London. It was home to over 500 people, perched above the rushing waters of the Thames, and was one of the city’s main shopping streets. It is among the most familiar images of London in the past, but little has previously been known about the houses and the people who lived and worked in them. This book uses plentiful newly-discovered evidence, including detailed descriptions of nearly every house, to tell the story of the bridge and its houses and inhabitants. With the new information it is possible to reconstruct the plan of the bridge and houses in the seventeenth century, to trace the history of each house back through rentals and a survey to 1358, revealing the original layout, to date most of the houses which appear in later views, and to show how the houses and their occupants changed during five and half centuries. The book describes what stopped the houses falling into the river, how the houses were gradually enlarged, what their layout was inside, what goods were sold on the bridge and how these changed over time, the extensive rebuilding in 1477-1548 and 1683-96, and the removal of the houses around 1760. There are many new discoveries – about the structure of the bridge, the width of the roadway, the original layout of the houses, how the houses were supported, the size and internal planning of the houses, the quality of their architecture, and the trades practised on the bridge. The book includes five newly-commissioned reconstruction drawings showing what we now know about the bridge and its houses.

London Bridge and its Houses c1209 1761 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Introduction

The bridge

Plans and views

2. Reconstructing the bridge and its houses

The roadway

Widths and depths of the houses

The cross buildings

Reconstructing the plan of the bridge and its houses

Piers and hammer beams

3. The houses from c 1209 to 1358

Origins

The houses in 1358

The ‘hautpas’ of 1358

4. The major buildings

The chapel

The stone gate

The drawbridge tower

Other structures

5. The houses from 1358 to 1633

Houses on new sites

Merging of plots

Rebuilding of houses

The house with many windows

Nonsuch House

Enlarging the houses

Landlord and tenants: leases

Landlord and tenants: repairs and rebuilding

6. Inside the houses in the seventeenth century

Cellars and shops

Upper rooms

Services

7. Fires and rebuildings 1633–82

The fire of 1633

The new building of 1645–49

The Great Fire of 1666 and the sheds

8. Trading on the bridge

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Bridge customers

Booksellers

From the 1680s to the 1750s

9. Families and community

Bridge families

The bridge population in the late seventeenth century

Community

10. The great rebuilding of 1683–96

The northern end

Growing traffic and the keep-right rule

The middle part and the drawbridge houses

South of the stone gate

The new houses

11. From the fire of 1725 to the removal of the houses

The fire of 1725

The falling in of leases in the 1740s

The new houses of 1745

Managing the existing houses

Removing the houses

Survey of the houses on London Bridge, 1604–83

Appendices

1. Reconstructing the plan of London Bridge

2. The reliability of the views of the bridge

3. Tracing the bridge houses back to 1358

4. The hearth tax of 1664–66

5. Rents on the bridge

6. The northern end of the bridge

Notes

Image credits

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