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Hace 4 días · Green Street Area. The development of Green Street extended over some thirty-five years and was not substantially completed until the mid 1760's. The slump in the volume of building in London which lasted from the late 1730's to the late 1740's was very much in evidence here, and the intermittent progress was marked by several unusual features.
Hace 3 días · Romney House was also on the north side of the square; and here in 1695 and again in 1697, as we learn from the Flying Post, the Post Boy, and the Post Man—the fashionable papers of the day—King William III. visited the Earl of Romney to witness the fireworks in the square; and in 1697, on the conclusion of the treaty of peace of Ryswick, the Dutch Ambassador made before his house a ...
Hace 4 días · 1694, June 5.—This day the Earl of Romney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, was pleased to visit the town of Hastings with Col. Robert Smith; and the freedom of the Port was conferred upon them. 1708, October 23.—Agreement between the Mayor and jurats, and the justices of the Peace, that only two freemen be made in each year, the one to be nominated by the mayor, and the other by the ...
Hace 4 días · People of Romney Marsh. Romney Marsh has been associated with many notable people, from those born here and/or lived here to those who influenced and affected its history. Roderick Learoyd VC. Paul Nash. Edith Nesbit. Doctor Syn. Rev Charles Cobb. In January 1867, the French lugger Courier de Dieppe was spotted foundering in a gale off ...
Hace 4 días · Count Louis Zborowski c1921. The RH& DR opened to traffic in 1927 as a 15" gauge (⅓ full size) fully working steam railway covering the eight miles from New Romney to Hythe. In 1928 the railway was extended southwards from New Romney through Greatstone to Dungeness, but it was reduced to a single track in 1947.
Hace 1 día · New Romney Town Hall is located on the High Street. It was erected in 1702 on an open arcade, refaced in the early 19th centuryC19 and the ground floor was built in 1884. A lock-up for incarcerating petty criminals was erected to the east of the town hall in the mid-18th century and the town hall was given a new stucco façade in the early 19th ...
Hace 4 días · The new earl of Norfolk, he maintains, was certainly a good citizen, especially during Edward's absence in the years to 1274 and in Wales and Scotland, for example. He was placed under pressure by the king's quo warranto campaign and by demands that he pay back his debts to the Exchequer, the sum of which he disagreed with on more than one occasion.
