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The origins of fire insurance (& ‘lusty able body’d firemen’)
The Great Fire of London (1666) destroyed more than 13,000 houses and displaced about 100,000 people but it took a couple of decades for its embers to spark the first blaze of the fire insurance business. Nicholas Barbon was probably the first … Continue reading
Ship shape: property ownership of the floating variety
I thought I would turn my attention to a different type of property for this blog post. I’ve mentioned in an earlier post that home ownership was not the common form of property ownership in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. … Continue reading
Posted in Ships and vessels, Women's History
Tagged customs house shipping registers, Helen Doe, historian Alison Kay, Mrs Mary Ross of Rochester, ship ownership, the 64th system for ownership of wooden sailing vessels, the Property Historian, Victorian investment, Victorian women and investment, Victorian women shipbuilders
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‘What to do with the Crystal Palace?’
What better time to appreciate second chances than at the the beginning of a new year. The Crystal Palace [a name of fairy tale splendor, if ever I heard one] sparkled as the stage for Britain’s Great Exhibition of 1851 but … Continue reading
Posted in London history, Parks & gardens, Victorian park estates
Tagged Alison Kay, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Crystal Palace at Sydenham, Crystal Palace Company, Crystal Palace Park, fire at the Crystal Palace, Great Exhibition of 1851, history of Penge, history of Sydenham, Jospeh Paxton, Leo Schuster, London, Samuel Laing, Sir Henry Buckland, The Crystal Palace, the Property Historian, William Cubitt
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When Santa got stuck up the chimney
It’s my son’s nativity play this week and this has put me in a festive mood. He’s been practicing songs about Santa, bags of toys and chimneys and this got me thinking. Why do I say ‘Father Christmas’ but so … Continue reading