Some Accout [sic] of the Work's done by Captain John Perry
- Made:
- 1796
Some Accout [sic] of the Work's done by Captain John Perry / Thomas Hawkes. 1796. [Negative xerox copy of original ms. octavo book. Has subtitle 'With the particulars of his stoping the great Breach in the Thames Bank, called Daggenham-breach, compleated in 1720 by means of his Dovetail'd Piles. And of his last Works for the more effectual drainage of Deeping Fen in 1730'. Includes a 'Plan of the late Breach in the Levells of Havering and Dagenham'; prefaced by engraving (1790) of Dagenham Beach House, Essex. Original book 146p. including introduction and index. See also Perry's 'An account of the stopping of Dagenham breach ...' 1721 shelved at O.B. PER. Original ms. gives Perry's dates as 'about 1669' to 1733 (actually 1670-1732(]