London Bridge and its Houses, c1209-1761

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A wide ranging account of the houses and other buildings erected on London Bridge. Mostly deals with the nature of the buildings and how they physically related to the bridge, changes to the buildings over time, landlord / tenant relationships, impact of fires, the occupant community, etc. But also sheds light on the management of the properties, the economic functions of the buildings, the nature of trading, etc. The index includes references to the many trades conducted on the Bridge. Chapters include: 'Reconstructing the bridge and its houses'; 'The houses from c1209 to 1358'; The major buildings'; 'The houses from 1358 to 1633'; 'Inside the houses in the seventeenth century'; 'Fires and rebuildings, 1633-82'; 'Trading on the bridge' - 'the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries' / 'the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries' / 'the customers' / 'the booksellers' / 'from the 1680s to the 1750s'; 'Families and community'; 'The great rebuilding of 1683-96 - the northern end'; 'From the fire of 1752 to the removal of the houses'