Laura-place


A Guide to all the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places; with a description of the Lakes ; a Sketch of a Tour in Wales and Itineraries. Illustrated with Maps and Views (1803) by R Philllips

On the farther side of the Avon is a new creation of architectural beauties, which may vie with anything in the world. Laura-place and its accompaniments and Great Pultney-street, terminated by Sydney Gardens, present as assemblage of fine buildings, which do honour to the present age.

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Quotations
 Chapter 11 
They passed briskly down Pulteney Street, and through Laura Place, without the exchange of many words. Thorpe talked to his horse, and she meditated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap–doors. As they entered Argyle Buildings, however, she was roused by this address from her companion, “Who is that girl who looked at you so hard as she went by?”

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