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Old and New London
… Tiberim long cubat hic." Horace, "Satires." Derivation of the Name of BermondseyGeneral Aspect of the LocalityDuke … in Tooley StreetDeath of Braidwood, the FiremanThe "Lion and Key"The Borough CompterThe "Ship and Shovel"Carter Lane … evenings, to sit beside the stream drinking their sack and ale." Dickens's graphic picture of the filth, wretchedness, …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… Berrick Salome BERRICK SALOME The small and relatively scattered village of Berrick Salome occupies gently rising ground a mile or so … a gift whose origins were unknown. 18 An additional 5 bread charity (distributed from the chapel gallery) was …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, a port, borough, market-town, parish, and county of itself, 55 miles (E. by S.) from Edinburgh, and 334 (N. by … Park of Haliedean." The parish is situated on the river Ale, by which it is bounded on the south, and is about five …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 BUILDING AND SOCIAL … such that a school inspector in the 1880s calculated that, of 1,204 families on his books, 530 (44 per cent) had moved … reeking of pickled herring, garlic sausage, and onion bread', 77 was occupied by exotic-looking people speaking a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Charities for the Poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR As a hamlet of Stepney parish Bethnal Green was a beneficiary of early … Stepney charities, 31 including Prisca Coburn's (1701) and Dame Sarah Pritchard's (1718), and shared in Fuller's, … 7 d. in 1857 79 but no distribution was made in 18904. The Bread charity originated in subscriptions raised before 1817 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ECONOMIC HISTORY AGRICULTURE. Possibly excepting parts of Eastfield, all open-field land had been inclosed by 1652. … than 10 a. each, three with 11-20 a., two with 41-50 a., and one (Treadway, with 61 a.) with more than 50 a. When the … M.B. in 1923. 73 The Natural Food Co. (later Allinson's Bread Co.) acquired Cyclone mills in Cambridge Road, north of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… chapel could be obtained as a schoolhouse for the poor of Bethnal Green. 80 It was, however, apparently used only for the dissenting academy at Bishop's Hall 81 and the first public school was Parmiter's, built in St. John … Greenwood's, Inman's, Robertson's, Jane Thomas's, and the Bread charities with the endowments of the Parochical school. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Stepney manor. 36 In 1652 a parliamentary survey was made of the demesne lands, mostly within Bethnal Green, … in 1653 the former manor house, Bishop's or Bonner's Hall, and 93 a. surrounding it between the Hackney border and Old … Nightingale 79 who conveyed it in 1754 to Stephen Leach of Bread Street (Lond.). 80 In 1772, as two fields, it passed to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Local Government LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANORIAL AND EARLY PARISH GOVERNMENT. Bethnal Green lay wholly within the manor of Stepney of which it was a recognized locality by 1405. 80 … and overseer were directed to give the inmates bread each month. 49 In 1757 the vestry farmed them out at 2 …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Bettws - Blaenau Bettws BETTWS, a parish, in the union of Llanelly, hundred of Iskennen, county of Carmarthen, South … 8 miles (S.) from Llandilo-Vawr; comprising the Upper and Lower divisions, and containing 1109 inhabitants. This … by a flood, whilst on his journey to Conway, to attend the assizes, he removed to the spot, and built the bridge at his …