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ECR 51 022

Reference code

ECR 51 022

Title

Chalcots, Middlesex: Plans and advertisements for London and Birmingham Railway

Level

Item

Date

1831-1835

Extent & medium

4 items

Content description

/1 Sketch plan of ground for the proposed garden of the Botanical Society to be taken at the yearly rent of [...] for 30 acres.
[1831]
MS., coloured.
300 feet to an inch.
Foolscap sheet.
[For other sketches relating to the same, see Eton College
Records, vol. XLIX, Misc. Estates, nos. 28 and 30].
/2 Advertisement of the advantages of and reasons for supporting
the proposed London and Birmingham Railway, with an engraved
map of England showing its course, and the connection with
Liverpool. 1832.
Printed, 2 fs.
/3 Another advertisement for the same, with a map of the line and a table showing the saving of time in travel by railway at 20 miles an hour compared with travel by road on turnpike roads at 9, and cross roads at 8 miles an hour. 1832.
Printed, 2fs.
[See Eton College Records, vol. XLIX, Misc. Estates nos. 33 and 34].
/4 Tracing of plan of Chalcots estate shewing the line of the London and Birmingham Railway. Coloured, 4 chains to an inch,
1ft 3ins x 1ft 1in . In paper cover, endorsed "Plan, Mr Wightman".
[1835J
[see Eton college Records, vol. XLIX, Misc. Estates, no. 74].
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