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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… sand tubb] A TUB, used like a WATER TROUGH, for storing a supply of domestic water. However, note alternative uses such … grew in tandem, and it became increasingly difficult to supply demand from water carriers and water carts in the way, … water, primarily for draining land and mines but with the supply of water as a secondary consideration, led to a string …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of 1729 for the old and sick poor, it was c. 1837 used to supply clothing and bedding every other year. By the 1860s it …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… including the 300 milkers kept by small farmers to supply the Cambridge market with milk and cheese. 43 The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… with a skimmington in 1895, cut off the village gas supply, he lost the railway contract and the works closed. … corner of the green, still stood in 1986. 4A new gas supply from the mains at Lode was sought in 1975, 5and gas …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the old parish pump, though from 1964 the village water supply came from the Cambridge Water Co. 71 Plac. de Quo …
Old and New London
… to Gay's "Trivia," St. James's Market was famous for its supply of veal. From Pepys we learn that the market owed its …