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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… SCHOOLS. In 1818 45 children attended a Sunday school and 3 day schools in Newton Harcourt, all un-endowed. 11 A day school was opened in 1826, where in 1833 9 children of each … at the expense of their parents. There was also a Sunday school in 1833, attended by 44 children, and supported by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Independents, and Roman Catholics; also a national school supported partly by the rent of a house conditionally … amongst other benefactions, in 1719, left 100 in aid of a school; and C. Barnardiston bequeathed a similar amount to be …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Baptists have a place of worship; and there is a charitv school for girls with a small endowment. Withington … The children of the district may attend Hoghton old school; and the Wesleyans have two schools. In the township … the Society of Friends, and Wesleyans. The free grammar school, on Church Green, was established under an act of …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… geometric panels (Plates 13, 14, 16), are of the Corinian School. Room I was paved with coarse white stone tesserae. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town. The clothier John Holloway (d. 1724), founder of a school for sons of journeyman weavers, 5 left money to build … to have been John Holloway's endowment of the Bluecoat school for journeymen weavers' sons in 1724, which included … their accounts to the rector, the master of the grammar school, and the bailiffs. More land was bought probably about …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, was apparently confined to a horse-powered rowing machine provided by the Blanket Company for its members in … reputedly installed the first steam-driven sawmill and machine-shop in the district, and by 1880 used mechanical … the corner of Corn Street and Market Square; it undertook machine- and implement repair and made builders' and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… just west of the town, made industrial collets for machine tools; it continued its expansion after the war, and by 1963, when new machine shops were opened on the site, exported to over 200 … the First World War and later used as a flying training school. The factory became a repair unit for military …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Education EDUCATION Provision To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or … century, and in 1649 John Nixon, founder (in 1658) of a school in Oxford, gave a Latin thesaurus to the 'public school' of Witney. The school appears to have been unendowed, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… north-eastern boundary was adjusted to take in Woodgreen school. 30 Large industrial estates west of the town … century, transforming the town's central part. The grammar school (Fig. 57), a handsome two-storeyed building in its own … on Bridge Street and at Church Green, St Mary's National school (1856) at Church Green, and the union workhouse …