The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . n to and George Webb, at the sum of 8124/. Thus, after an interval of no less than four years, this work wasfairly commenced, and the citizens of London were delighted at lastto
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . n to and George Webb, at the sum of 8124/. Thus, after an interval of no less than four years, this work wasfairly commenced, and the citizens of London were delighted at lastto see the ruins and rubbish of the old building disappearing beforethe labours of the workmen. The work was carried on with unceasing diligence, and everythingwas soon in readiness for formally laying the Foundation Stone,which took place on Monday the 17th of January, 1842. PrinceAlbert condescended to perform this ceremony, which was veryinteresting, and the whole circumstances connected with it weredescribed on the Plate laid in the Foundation Stone, on which wasengraved, in Latin and English, an appropriate inscription. The contract for raising the superstructure was taken by Jackson, who, previously, had been largely engaged in theconstruction of the Birmingham and other of the northern railways,one of his more important buildings being the great station at Derby. ROYAL EXCHANGE. 371. NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE. The New Royal Exchange was completed in the unprecedentedly shortperiod of three years, at somewhat below the architects estimate of137,600/., or, including Sculpture, Architects Commission, and otherExpenses, at a total of about 150,000/. The building was formallyopened by Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, in Oct., 1844, andwas finally given up to the merchants on the 1st of January following. This Edifice stands nearly due east and west; the extreme lengthfrom the portico on the west to the columns on the east is 308 plan is much broader at the east en
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