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A History of the County of Oxford
… for church members. A Church of England Working Men's Society and a Workman's Club were set up in 1888, and Norris … in 1841, following over-optimistic advice from the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, cost …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was then falling slightly through the effects of agricultural depression and unemployment; nevertheless the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… subscription, and a grant of 500 from the Incorporated Society, for which 460 free sittings were provided. Here is a …
A History of the County of Essex
… In 1339 the unfree tenants on Wivenhoe manor owed regular agricultural services, which varied on different holdings, … in improving farming methods, and was president of Essex Agricultural Society in 1870. At his Wivenhoe Lodge farm of 300 a., where …
A History of the County of Essex
… 3 By 1839 the schools were in union with the National Society. In 1848 a new schoolhouse, built in the Elizabethan …
A History of the County of Essex
… and accommodated meetings of the vestry, a friendly society, and the Wivenhoe Association against Housebreakers, … Reading Club 1883-1914, and by the Colchester Co-operative Society in the early 20th century. 78 A branch of Essex … of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. 83 The Wivenhoe Society, an amenity society, was formed in 1966. 84 NOTABLE …
A History of the County of Essex
… 86 David George Goyder, minister of the Swedenborgian Society at Ipswich, founded a small society in Wivenhoe by 1848. The New Jerusalem church in Sun …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the 74 railway labourers in the otherwise largely agricultural parish in 1851 (the mill was not working that … agriculture was still the largest employer; there were 62 agricultural workers compared with 46 people at the paper … Farmers on both estates got into difficulties during the agricultural depression of the earlier 19th century, their …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Merton College, St. John's College, and the National Society, a new girls' schoolroom was built. 79 In 1833 a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Port Meadow, which suggests an extension of the scattered agricultural settlement of that date found in North Oxford. … down. In the later 19th century the Foresters' Friendly Society held its annual festival on Whit Monday, with a …