...died (Feb. 25). 1724 Chelsea Waterworks were constructed. 1726 Oxford Street was a deep hollow road, full of sloughs, with here and there a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats. 1728 Bohea tea was sold in London from 133. to 2os. per pound (May 27). 1732 Covent Garden Theatre...

...road, lay through a country district, of which Pennant wrote about the middle of the last century: "I remember Oxford street a deep, hollow road and...of sloughs, with here and there a ragged house the lurking place of cut throats ; insomuch that I was never taken that way by night, in my hackney coach,...

...culprits' life extending, In famed St. Giles's doth begin, At fatal Tyburn ending.—JOHN WILSON CROKER. I remember Oxford Street a deep hollow road, and full...of sloughs; with here and there a ragged house, the lurking place of cut-throats: insomuch that I never was taken that way by night, in my hackney coach,...

...the north side. He says, " I remember there was a deep hollow road and full of sloughs : there was here and there a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats : insomuch that I never was taken that way by night, in my hackney'coach, to a worthy uncle's, who gave me lodgings at...

...Oxford Road, had only a few houses on the north side of it. He remembered it ' a deep hollow road, full of sloughs, with here and there a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats ' — a state of things the contrast to which was set forth in some crude lines of a song that a venerable...

...almost unbuilt on the north side. I remember there a deep hollow road, and full of sloughs ; there was here and there a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats, insomuch that I never was taken that way by night, in my hackneycoach, to a worthy uncle's who gave me lodgings at...

...almost unbuilt on the north side. I remember there a deep hollow road, and full of sloughs ; there was here and there a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats, insomuch that I never was taken that way by night, in my hackneycoach, to a worthy uncle's who gave me lodgings at...

...the corner of Rathbone Place was dated " Rathbone Place in Oxford Street, 1718." Pennant remembers Oxford Street " a deep hollow road and full of sloughs, with here and there a ragged house, the lurking place of cut-throats." Its chief association will always be that of the many dismal processions...

...description of it in his own youthful days forms interesting reading. "I remember Oxford Street," he says, "a deep hollow road, and full of sloughs ; with here...insomuch that I was never taken that way by night in my hackney-coach, to a worthy uncle's, who gave me lodgings in his house in George Street, but I went...

...half-bulwarks across the road opposite Wardour Street. Pennant (born in 1726) remembered Oxford Street as " a deep, hollow road, and full of sloughs ; with here...house, the lurking-place of cut-throats," insomuch that he "never was taken that way by night " in a hackney coach, to his uncle's house in George Street,...