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A History of the County of Gloucester
… before 1863 and surviving until c. 1908. 97 A Friendly Society was registered in 1834 and an Independent Benevolent Society in 1844. 98 The parish was given a cottage in 1908 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… SOCIAL LIFE The Polden Hill and Woolavington Friendly Society, founded 1854, and in the early 20th century the Rational Sick and Benefit Society, met at the White Lion. 13 A village hall opened in … Courts were held up to three times a year mainly for agricultural and tenancy matters. 25 In 1648 the tenants of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… part of the hundred treated here were predominantly agricultural communities, looking to small markets at …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1855 and 1859 a firm of iron founders, engineers, and agricultural implement makers, Oatley & Morris, later Oatley …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… library is attached, in 1815; there is also a society for the encouragement and improvement of native … 1818. The Museum of the Worcestershire Natural-History Society was opened in 1836. The theatre, a neat and … of several small benefactions, and a grant from the Society for Building Churches. On taking down the old church, …
A History of the County of Essex
… whilst the number of farmers fell from 13 to 5 and of agricultural labourers from 113 to 104. 89 A threshing … parish in the 19th century. 96 Membership of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union was strong from 1874 until 1889 … but from 1894 union activity declined. 97 The reduction of agricultural wages in 1919 led to protests, but the farmers' …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1825 there was a National Sunday school. 10 The National Society gave a grant towards the building of a new schoolroom …
A History of the County of Essex
… out of the 30 parishes in Lexden hundred, and 535 in 1851. Agricultural depression from the late 19th cent- ury caused … Hall manor house provided a focus of settlement for the agricultural parish. The other manor houses were Garnons in … as an inn in 1750, was the meeting place of a friendly society between 1794 and 1849. 87 The one and a half bays on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in consideration of a grant of 200 from the Incorporated Society. A free school is endowed with an annual pension of … by subscription, aided by a grant from the Incorporated Society; and contains some monuments to the Bethune family. … there are libraries and reading-rooms, and a literary society and a mechanics' institution have been lately …