London Bridge Improvement Act on 1756. A study of early modern urban finance and administration
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- Author(s) Latham, Mark
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 2009
- Pages
- Publisher University of Leicester
- Place Published Leicester
Topics:
- Name Finance of production & trade
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Library:
- Name Leicester University Library
- City Leicester
- County Leicestershire
- Country England
- Postcode LE1 9QD
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Notes:
Explores the factors that led to the major improvements [including house demolition] to London Bridge, notably the role of urban governance and finance in the process of improvement, through detailed analysis of the records of Bridge House Trust. Provides, inter alia, 'a greater understanding of the way in which the Corporation of London managed the bridge and financed its upkeep'