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  Cubitt families
The Cubitt families (see important letter from David Cubitt) came from near Dilham where the Broads meet the higher land of North Norfolk and were millwrights and presumably enjoyed the benefits of working on both wind and water driven mills.
Joseph Cubitt was born at Horning, Norfolk, on 24 November 1811; and died in London on 7 December1872.
William Cubitt was born and Baptised in Dilham, Norfolk, in 1785, and died in Clapham Common, London, on 13 October 1861, aged 76.
www.steamindex.com /people/cubitt.htm   (1063 words)

  
 Stepney Areas:Cubitt's Town & William Cubitt
Queen Victoria regarded as 'her' Cubitt and after his death said of him "In his sphere of life, with the immense business he had in hand, he is a real national loss.
Lewis Cubitt was born 29 Sep 1799 and died 9 June 1883 at Lewes Crescent, Brighton.
They have a committee room called the Cubitt Room, the plaque in which clearly refers to Sir William Cubitt (2), but includes amongst his achievements that he was a contractor, which he never was.
website.lineone.net /~fight/Stepney/cubitt.htm   (1955 words)

  
 William Cubitt
Cubitt's first waterway project was the Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation, then he engineered the straightening of the northern part of the Oxford Canal.
Cubitt married in 1809, not in 1807 or earlier, as is implied.
William Cubitt (1791-1863) was the brother of Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855) who founded the building firm which constructed the London Institute, Finsbury Circus and developed much of Belgravia, Bloomsbury, Pimlico and Clapham Park; Thomas also remodelled Osborne House and built the east front of Buckingham Palace.
www.peter-quita.demon.co.uk /cubitt.htm   (1149 words)

  
 Descendants of John Kennard (1732-1791)
Thomas William Kennard was born on 29 Aug 1825 and died on 10 Sep 1893 at age 68.
Lewis was born on 5 Dec 1835 and died on 20 Nov 1872 at age 36.
Count Riccardi Thomas Cubitt was born on 8 May 1870 and died on 18 Mar 1950 at age 79.
www.dodingtonfamily.org /Kennard/D4.htm   (233 words)

  
 Lewis Cubitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He built many bridges in his career but most of them were built in South America, Australia and India.
It is now a unique "listed structure" - the only cast iron bridge in the UK carrying a high-speed train line.
This article about an architect of the United Kingdom is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Cubitt   (232 words)

  
 HPL: Muggle Encyclopedia: K
Designed as the Great Northern Railway's London terminus by the architect Lewis Cubitt, the structure was built in 1851-2.
Digory Kirke is the title character of The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis, one of the seven volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia (a favourite of JKR's).
Born in 1960, Steve Kloves was the screenwriter for the first four Harry Potter films, as well as the sixth.
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 Die großen Londoner Bahnhöfe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
But larger stations were needed as the importance of the railway grew with the years.
In 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition, the erection of King’s Cross Station, designed by Lewis Cubitt, was begun.
The station consists of two halls running parallel, each 244 metres long, 32 metres wide and with a height of 22 metres, and its origins in the Crystal Palace can't be denied.
www.uni-trier.de /uni/fb3/kunstgeschichte/nicolai/htmle/III_3_1_2.htm   (313 words)

  
 £400m plan restores King's Cross to former glory | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Picture: Network Rail/PA King's Cross station is to be restored to its full yellow-brick Victorian glory under a £400m plan to create an open piazza to welcome visitors to London.
Designed by Lewis Cubitt and opened in 1851 on the site of a smallpox hospital, the station has a Grade I-listed arched facade and windows, and a 120ft (37 metre) clock tower.
Its imposing edifice has been hidden behind a "temporary" modern extension built in 1972 which was only meant to last five years.
www.guardian.co.uk /transport/Story/0,2763,1415285,00.html   (498 words)

  
 DR MILES LEWIS
Inscribed by W Wyatt to Lewis Cubitt (the distinguished architect).
Barlow is an even more important empiricist than Tredgold (qv, previous category), especially in the development of the use of the moment of inertia and the theory of deflection.
This copy a prize to James Bannatyne Lewis on coming first in the first class in the third honours examination for the degree of Master of Civil Engineering (corrected from Certificate of Civil Engineer), University of Melbourne.
www.abp.unimelb.edu.au /staff/milesbl/library.html   (7157 words)

  
 Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thomas Cubitt was one of the earliest, and the most important, of the speculative builders who built up large areas of London from the early 19th Century.
He started building in around 1815, designing, laying out and building streets, squares, whole districts, employing a wide range of specialised craftsmen and architects (including his brother Lewis Cubitt) on his staff in order to be able to provide a 'one stop shop'.
Among his work in London may be counted Belgravia, centred around Belgrave Square, Pimlico, much of Bloomsbury, and Blackfriars Bridge.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/arch/cubitt.htm   (129 words)

  
 Architecture
By the 1830's new designs had evolved, usually a waitingroom in masonry with the shed in iron and glass.
Lewis Cubitt (1799-1883), King's Cross Railroad Station, London, 1850-52
The American James Bogardus (1800-74) systematized mass production of cast iron elements so a whole building could prefabricated.
www.bluffton.edu /~humanities/art/19c/arch/arch.html   (973 words)

  
 Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society
St Pancras station and hotel are now admired architecturally but at one time were considered vulgar.
302 830 King's Cross Hotel, by Lewis Cubitt 1854.
Constructed 1850-54 by Lewis Cubitt (architect) and William Cubitt (engineer).
www.glias.org.uk /walks/kgx.html   (836 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Charlotte Anne Kennard and others
She married Captain Lewis Cubitt on 31 March 1869.
     Captain Lewis Cubitt married Charlotte Anne Kennard, daughter of Robert William Kennard and Mary Ann Challis, on 31 March 1869.
     Captain Lewis Cubitt lived in Eden Hall, Edenbridge, Kent, England.
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 kings cross history page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Behind the frontal facia the two arches are 70ft high continue for 800ft.
The station, designed by Lewis Cubitt, and built in 1851-2, was built on the site of a former smallpox and fever hospital and has previously included a six storey granary, large coal stores and stabling for 300 horses.
The neighbouring Great Northern Hotel, is a splendid curved building also by Cubitt in the same style was built some 3 years later, and I believe is tragically due to be demolished shortly in conjunction with CTRL/LU work in the area.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /londonstations/histkx.html   (158 words)

  
 Body
I hereby certify that Messrs Cubitt, having completed two thirds of their Contract for the Building now erecting to contain Mr.
I beg leave to acquaint you, that Messrs Cubitt, having performed two thirds of the works under their Contract dated 30th November last, for erecting Buildings for the reception of Mr.
Messrs Cubitt to use every exertion in forwarding the Buildings, and which they have now covered in.
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 King's Cross Station, London N1: tourist information from TourUK
London N1 King's Cross, one of the most famous stations in London, was built for the Great Northern Railway to serve Yorkshire, the north-east of England and Scotland.
The engineer was Joseph Cubitt and the station was designed by his older brother, Lewis Cubitt.
Beside King's Cross is the Great Northern Hotel, built three years after the station and designed by Lewis Cubitt.
www.touruk.co.uk /london_stations/kingscross_station1.htm   (529 words)

  
 Places in Emma
However, I decided to stick it on the other side because the rollover image is rather nice (and to make the locations look a bit more spread out)..
The station was designed in 1852 by an architect named Lewis Cubitt, who had relatives working on the Great Northern Railway.
The station was built by John and William Jay and cost £123,500.
www.eden.rutgers.edu /~jhiramot/425/final/places.htm   (856 words)

  
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The River Nene passes through the city centre, and a rather pretty green bridge carries the East Coast Main Line over the river.
It was built in 1847 by Lewis Cubitt, who was more famous for his bridges in South America, Australia and India.
Apart from some minor repairs in 1910 (the steel bands and cross braces around the fluted legs) the bridge remains just the way he built it.
www.firstcarhire.com /country-guide/united-kingdom/peterborough   (401 words)

  
 photoblog: Suby & Sin's House - TIME'S TAINTING TOUCH | your complete photoblog solution
A shot taken in fornt of King's Cross Station, London, on a London walk with Suby a few months ago.
The station was designed by Lewis Cubitt and built in 1851-52, featuring the central 120ft.
I don't have any witty comments today, too much going on at work.
suby.shutterchance.com /photoblog/8974.htm   (739 words)

  
 Feb. 18 Architecture for Industry
Since there was no precedent for many of the building types associated with industrialization, new forms and materials were often employed.
King's Cross Station by Lewis Cubitt and St. Pancras Station by George Gilbert Scott in London are evidence of the architects' search for a new formal language.
Henri Labrouste produced incredible interiors using iron in his libraries, such as the Bibliothèque Ste.
www.arch.mcgill.ca /prof/adams/arch251/winter1998/ha/feb18/feb18.htm   (492 words)

  
 King's Cross Station, London
L2389 This grand example of Victorian architecture is the Great Northern's London terminus at King's Cross, thought to have been photographed around 1900.
Designed by Lewis Cubitt and completed in 1852, the station was erected on the site of a former smallpox and fever hospital.
Note the small board on the right of the picture that is advertising Ceylon Indian Tea.
www.railwayarchive.org.uk /Lpages/html/L2389.html   (119 words)

  
 Science and Society Picture Library - Search
The station, designed by Lewis Cubitt, was built in 1850.
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 Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone
Cauldron signifies "abundance, and inspiration." Cerridwen, the 'goddess of wisdom and witchcraft" in an ancient legend is "the keeper of the Black Cauldron of Immortality." "This is the Cauldron from which one sip could bring incredible insights, wisdom and supernatural power." Cerridwen is another name for Venus which is another name for Lucifer.
Kings Cross station-the departure to Hogwarts is actually in London--King's Cross Station and St Pancras Station are next door to one another,...King's Cross Station was designed as the Great Northern Railway's London terminus by the architect Lewis Cubitt, and the structure was built in 1851-2.
It was built for the Midland Railway...The hotel was added to the front by Gilbert Scott in 1868-74.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thank you very much for placing the information on the web.
I'm researching the Cubitt family from the other side of the world in Australia and my husband's ancestor had brothers - Thomas Cubitt, who was involved in building Kemp Town, and Lewis Cubitt, an architect who lived at 5 Lewes Crescent.
It is really wonderful to be able to see pictures of places they built and lived in via the web pages submitted by local people.
www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk /lewes_crescent_personal2.htm   (180 words)

  
 Breaking and Entering Film Review - Time Out Film
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This ‘London’ melodrama certainly gives the auteur theory a concrete overcoat.  As shots of Lewis Cubitt’s famed train shed in every other frame remind us, we’re in King’s Cross.
At one point, as Jude Law’s trendy young architect, Will, sits in his Range Rover on the corner of York Way inadvertently abusing, over lattes, an East European prostitute’s amour propre, you start to think you’re in one of Stephen Frears’ compassionate urban social dramas.
www.timeout.com /film/83748.html   (465 words)

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