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A History of the County of Oxford
… shambles, besides regular payments for maintenance of a fire-engine. 84 The vestry elected collectors of the poor for … other bodies during the earlier 20th century to provide fire-fighting, ambulance, and hospital provision, appointing … the 1930s electricity and water committees, a hospital and fire-brigade committee, a housing and public buildings …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for the roads. At Witton Park pit is a manufactory for fire-bricks and draining-tiles. There is railway …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This town, which, having suffered severely from fire in the year 1595, and again in 1724, is almost entirely … in the Tudor style, for supplying water in case of fire, erected at the expense of the late duke. The living is …
A History of the County of Essex
… Harvey's business never fully recovered from a disastrous fire in 1872. Between 1881 and 1888 the yard was occupied and …
A History of the County of Essex
… 78 PUBLIC SERVICES. An engine which may have been a parish fire engine attended a fire in 1774. 79 In 1904 the urban district council formed a fire brigade of eleven men, which at first stored its barrow, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… year 1727, after the destruction of an ancient mansion by fire, and completed in 1741, by Horatio, second Baron … 1590, when a considerable part of it was destroyed by a fire that continued burning for five days. In the …
A Dictionary of London
… and Greyfriars' Chronicle (Cam. Soc.), p.96. Burnt in the Fire and rebuilt. Removed to Giltspur Street in 1791. The … Hill, 1587 (Lond. I p.m. III. 1o8). Not rebuilt after the Fire (Maitland, 1775, 11.879). Site occupied by No.14 St. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… only red bricks but also tiles, quarries, white bricks, fire bricks, and land drainage pipes from fireclay. 85 The …