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City Bridge Foundation is the working name of the historic Bridge House Estates, which originated in the late eleventh century and was formally established by royal charter in 1282 by the City of London Corporation in London, England. It is a registered charity governed by a single trustee, the City of London Corporation, represented by the ...
Nonsuch House was a four-storey house on London Bridge, completed in 1579. It is the earliest documented prefabricated building . [ 1 ] Originally constructed in the Netherlands, it was taken apart and shipped to London in pieces in 1578, where it was reassembled, with each timber being marked so that it could be reconstructed correctly. [ 2 ]
Central London: Maintained by: Bridge House Estates, City of London Corporation: Preceded by: Cannon Street Railway Bridge: Followed by: Tower Bridge: Characteristics; Design: Prestressed concrete box girder bridge: Total length: 269 m (882.5 ft) Width: 32 m (105.0 ft) Longest span: 104 m (341.2 ft) Clearance below: 8.9 m (29.2 ft) Design life
The first curry house opened in London in 1810. More followed early in the 20th century; Veeraswamy , founded in 1926, is the oldest surviving Indian restaurant in Britain. By the 1970s, over three-quarters of the Indian restaurants in the country were owned and run by people of Bangladeshi origin, mainly from the Sylhet area.
Thames river, London 1209–1831 The number of houses on the bridge reached a maximum of 140. Many of the houses were later merged, into 91. In the seventeenth century, almost all had four or five storeys. All the houses were shops, and the bridge was one of the City of London's four or five main shopping streets.
The Hindoostane Coffee House, opened at 34 George Street, London in 1810, was an Indian restaurant, and the first of its kind in the British Isles. It was founded by Sake Dean Mahomed, a former captain in the British East India Company's Bengal Army. [a] It closed in 1812, when Mahomed became bankrupt. [2] [3]
Curry house (United Kingdom), a type of restaurant in the United Kingdom Curry House (restaurant chain) , a defunct chain of fast-food restaurants in California, U.S. Buildings in the United States
Bridge House Estates, the body responsible for the bridges over the Thames bordering the City of London; Bridge House, a Grade I listed building built over Stock Ghyll in Ambleside, Westmorland; Bridge House, Castletown, Isle of Man, a registered building in the Isle of Man and the former home of Quayle's Bank