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4 days ago · Charles John Huffam Dickens ( / ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
3 days ago · In 1821 Arthur Pott leased Nos. 59 and 61, Union Street, with the ground behind and the house next door to John Allsop. The firm of Allsop, turners and brushmakers, were in occupation of the premises from 1787 until 1880. Their factory is marked on a plan of the Clink Liberty prepared for the Clink Paving Commissioners in 1812.
4 days ago · Flying Horse Yard (in 1821 called Exmouth Place) and Lamb Lane, although not wholly built up, housed tradesmen and workmen in 1821. In 1831 buildings formed almost a continuous ribbon from Cambridge Heath to Hackney village.
Jul 10, 2024 · In Brooksby's Walk, where her husband John had acquired William Frames's property, the younger John Musgrove made a building lease in 1821. The most respectable parts in 1821 were Upper Homerton, around the later Urswick Road, with 19
4 days ago · 1821 4 July: The redesigned Haymarket Theatre opens. 19 July: George IV is crowned in Westminster Abbey. His estranged wife, Caroline of Brunswick, is turned away from the coronation ceremony, and this is also the last coronation at which the full ceremony of the King's Champion is carried out.
2 days ago · Portrait of Charles Babbage ( c.1820) Babbage's birthplace is disputed, but according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography he was most likely born at 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London, England. [10] A blue plaque on the junction of Larcom Street and Walworth Road commemorates the event.
3 days ago · In 1821 they issued the so-called Iguala Plan (Plan de Iguala), a conservative document declaring that Mexico was to be independent, that its religion was to be Roman Catholicism, and that its inhabitants were to be united, without distinction between Mexican and European.
