East-end Sentence Examples

In 1754, however, their heirs brought about the erection here of Fort Western, the main building of which is still standing at the east end of the bridge, opposite the city hall.

Soon the hill at the east end became the property of George Munjoy and that at the west end the property of George Bramhall.

The highest point is the Monte Solaro (1920 ft.) on the west, while at the east end the cliffs rise to a height of 900 ft.

Here he had to deal with the dangers arising from the increasing hordes of undesirable aliens who poured into the East End of London.

Frazer maintains the hitherto current theory that the earlier temple of Athena and Erechtheus was on the site of the Erechtheum; that the Erechtheum inherited the name apXa ios veclis from its predecessor, and that the " opisthodomos " in which the treasures were kept was the west chamber of the Parthenon; Furtwangler and Milchh6fer hold the strange view that the " opisthodomos " was a separate building at the east end of the Acropolis, while Penrose thinks the building discovered by Dorpfeld was possibly the Cecropeum.

With regard to the buildings on the east end of the Acropolis, where the present museums stand, no certainty exists; among the many statues here were those of Xanthippus, the father of Pericles, and of Anacreon.

There are eight other rivers on the same side, seventeen on the south side, six at the east end and four at the west end, besides more than 1200 smaller streams, and the deep valleys cut by the streams add to the broken surface of the country.

The ruins of the castle built in 1600 by Patrick Stewart, earl of Orkney, stand at the east end of the bay and are in good preservation.

The Kunst-Halle (the picture gallery), containing some good works by modern masters, faces the east end of Lombards-Brucke.

The General Register House for Scotland, begun in 1 774 from designs by Robert Adam, stands at the east end of Princes Street.

John Knox's house at the east end of High Street is kept in excellent repair, and contains several articles of furniture that belonged to the reformer.

In the East End and other poor quarters a large trade in second-hand clothing, flowers and vegetables, and many other commodities is carried on in the streets on movable stalls by costermongers and hawkers.

The statue of Queen Elizabeth which stood on the west side of Ludgate was purchased by Alderman Gosling and set up against the east end of St Dunstan's church in Fleet Street, where it still remains.

The Common Hall was the successor of the folkmote, the meetings of which were originally held in the open air at the east end of St Paul's and afterwards in the Guildhall.

The east end of the lake, where it is 30 m.

The plan is unusual, consisting of a large nave without aisles, the span being between 45 and 50 ft.; it also has two shallow transepts and an apsidal east end.

Yet the exigencies of traffic demand further extensions, and another large station was in 1909 in process of construction at the east end of the city, devised to receive the local traffic of lines running eastward, while a through station for the north to south traffic was projected on a site farther west of the central terminus.

After rounding the east end of the terrace wall, the Sacred Way turns northward, leaving the Great Altar, dedicated by the Chians, on the left.

A few of those at the east end are hewn in the rock.

Chief Buildings, &c. - In the centre of Market Square are the market buildings, and at its east end the post and telegraph offices, a handsome block of buildings with a façade 200 ft.

The main island of Hawaii and Maui at the east end are practically without reefs; which, however, are abundant farther west.

At the east end are the remains of the chapel.

In the course of time the lad joined the army and went to India, where he rose to the rank of major-general and amassed a fortune of 70,000 with which he endowed the Elgin Institution (commonly known as the Anderson Institution) at the east end of High Street, for the education of youth and the support of old age.

Gray's hospital, at the west end of High Street, was endowed by Dr Alexander Gray (1751-1808), and at the east end stands the Institution, already mentioned, founded by General Andrew Anderson (1746-1822).

In the West the high altar was moved to the east end (the presbyterium) with a space before it for the assisting deacons and subdeacons (the chancel proper) railed off as a spot peculiarly holy (now usually called the sanctuary); between this and the nave, where the laity were, was the choir, with seats for the clergy on either side.

Collier was appointed to Manchester and the Rev. Peter Thompson was sent to work in the East End.

The east end was usually square, but the Friars Church at Winchelsea had a polygonal apse.

Kingston was held at the east end of Ontario.

Of the choir only the foundations remain to indicate its extent; at the east end stood the high altar before which Robert III.

In 1896 he became vicar of Portsea, when his success in administering a large working-class parish led in 1901 to his nomination as bishop suffragan of Stepney in the East End of London.

Mary's, Shrewsbury, in 1884; in 1885 he became private chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield and in 1889 head of the Oxford House, Bethnal Green, where he gained much popularity owing to his devoted work among the East End poor.

The appointment, which had hitherto been reserved for ecclesiastics of marked ability as scholars or administrators, excited much comment; but it was undoubtedly popular, and this popularity was confirmed when it was realized that the bishop intended to carry on in his new sphere the democratic traditions of his East End activities.

It is supposed that a chapel of which some traces exist in the east end of the town was dedicated to Kentigern.

The commercial harbour lies on the south side of the town at the east end of the Ems-Jade canal.

They are formed from a grey trachytic lava found at the east end of the island.

The fine church of St Thomas a Becket is transitional between Norman and Early English, and has a beautiful Norman east end.

The west end of a town receives the wind as it blows in fresh from the country at all seasons, and consequently the west end of an English town is with few exceptions the residential quarter, while smoke-producing industries are usually relegated to the east end.

In the east end is the Pennsylvania College for Women (Presbyterian; chartered in 186 9), with preparatory, collegiate and musical departments.

At the east end of Union Street is the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, erected in 1893 by the royal tradesmen of the city.

It lies at the east end of the Loch of Forfar in the valley of Strathmore, and is 13 m.

The fairer tribes at the east end tattoo, no definite meaning apparently being attached to the pattern, for they welcome suggestions from Manchester.

The organ is situated at the east end of the south choir aisle, with the attached console facing east.

Beyond it, the grand 14th century chancel, rudely filling almost the entire east end of the graveyard.

While associated very much around the world with the east end cockney modern London is very different to the that stereotype.

T he people of the East End of London - the true cockneys - are a race apart.

At the east end is an altar on a raised wooden dais.

Its strength came from Spitalfields silk-weavers and east End dockers - the poor.

Me And My Desire The decline of London as a port led to vast areas of former dockland in the East End becoming derelict.

The six-inch pipes are one inch thick " The system covers an area from Kensington in the west to the east End docklands.

In the east end of the south aisle, dating from the late 13th century, is a recumbent effigy in stone.

The Stocks Tree On the east end of the village green grew the Stocks Tree an old elm of great age.

Two other important buildings stood at the east end of High Green.

But Emma dreams of escaping the poverty of the east end.

The project resulted in the creation of a new, permanent exhibition in the Museum, World in the East End.

A wrought iron cross finial from the east end now lies alongside the south wall of the nave.

Georgian and Victorian London was devastated in WWII - huge swathes of the center and the East End were totally flattened.

It's about east End gangsters, men being together and men trying to express their feelings.

All you have to know is that they represent the various incarnations of the East End villain.

A tall, narrow lancet toward the east end is of a similar age.

Originally the wealthy steel magnates built their large houses up wind of the pollution from the industrial east end.

A change to ashlar masonry at the extreme east end of the nave.

In the East End of London, George Green secondary school has 800 pupils and among them over a hundred different mother tongues.

At the East end of the church is a recumbent statue of Mary Magdalene with her pot of precious ointment by her side.

At the east end of this wall is a small trefoiled fourteenth-century piscina.

A NEW novel by a lifelong Eastender that tackles love, drugs and racism in the East End is winning praise from all quarters.

At the east end of the north aisle is a chapel separated from it by wrought iron altar rails.

The Forge Shopping Center Today the East End bears little resemblance to the East End of twenty years ago.

At the east end are seven trusses supporting a lower roofline of six bays.

The Lady Chapel The Lady Chapel, set off the east end of the nave is a place of special sanctity.

The East End has people who deserve that send-off much more than him.

They also held the patronage of several major Anglo-Catholic shrines in the east end of London.

Visible are the remains of the connection from the east end of the sorting sidings to the up main line.

There is now a barrier at the East end of Railroad Wood with hard standing for a very few cars.

The high tide wader roost around the shearing barn at the east end of the level has had fewer birds in recent years.

He came to London in the 1930s and settled in the East End and became a watchmaker.

The East End is the most popular boating area, as the West End can become weedy in the summer months.

There is still, however, a distinct current from the Shari delta to the east end of the lake - known to the natives, like the depression beyond, as the Bahr-el-Ghazal - indicative of the former overflow outlet.

Thus, clock-makers and metal-workers are congregated in Finsbury, especially Clerkenwell and in Islington; Hatton Garden, near Holborn Viaduct, is a centre for diamond merchants; cabinet-making is carried on in Bethnal Green, Shoreditch and the vicinity; and large numbers in the East End are employed in the match industry.

The revocation of the edict of Nantes in October 1685, and the consequent migration of a large number of industrious French Protestants, caused a considerable growth in the east end of London.

Chief Buildings, &c. - In the centre of Market Square are the market buildings, and at its east end the post and telegraph offices, a handsome block of buildings with a façade 200 ft.

The west front and a large portion of the north half of the nave and aisle have perished, but the remains include the rest of the nave, the two transepts, the chancel and choir, the two western piers of the tower and the sculptured roof of the east end.

Standing on the smooth sandy beach at the east end of the pond, in a calm September afternoon, when a slight haze makes the opposite shore-line indistinct, I have seen whence came the expression, "the glassy surface of a lake."

There is a canal two rods wide along the northerly and westerly sides, and wider still at the east end.

At the east end are further, modern benches set at right-angles to the altar and raised on a wooden plinth.

The organ was moved to the east end of the north aisle and a robed choir sat in the chancel.

Crisis Skylight is a new flagship project which Crisis is launching in the heart of London 's East End.

The East End has seen sporadic outbreaks of mob violence, often punished by death.

The Monk 's Door at the east end of the aisle has swirly foliage patterns in the carving.

The Embarcadero Center at the east end of California Street has blocks of shops and restaurants under the complex of high rise office buildings.

The show focuses on the life and times of characters that live in Albert Square, in the East End of London.

Welcome to the East End of London, an area of London also known as Spitalfields, Christ Church and more.

The story line behind the serial focuses on the domestic and working lives of people living in the fictional London borough of Walford in London's East End.

The 24 original characters in EastEnders were based on the family of scriptwriter Tony Holland, as well as people he and producer Julia Smith remembered from their own time in the East End.

Another bank i ioo fathoms from the surface runs south from the east end of Crete, separating the Pola Deep from the depths of the Levant basin, in which a depth of 1960 fathoms was recorded near Makri on the coast of Asia Minor.