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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… summer. In the mountains are found strata of bituminous coal, and in the lower portions of the parish, near the Vale of Neath, some of stone-coal and culm, from two to fifteen feet in thickness: these … a Sunday school held in it. Connected with the Venallt coal and iron works are some day and Sunday schools, held in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… The income from those gifts was distributed in bread and coal until the 1940s or later. 20 All the above charities and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… undulated, and the soil half clay and half clay-loam. Coal exists; and there is a large and a smaller cotton-mill, … Liverpool; and the population is chiefly employed in the coal and iron mines which abound in the district. A church … p.; the soil is fertile, and the substratum abounds with coal, of which there are several extensive mines in …
A Dictionary of London
… 1810. At the bottom of Joiners' Hall Lane. Former name : "Coal Wharf" (Rocque, 1746). Name derived from the sign. …
Survey of London
… the piano maker Rice Jones, who was also apparently a coal-merchant (17981802), who then moved to No. 11, and the …
Survey of London
… of Wales'. 89 Rice Jones appears also to have traded as a coal-merchant and it is under this calling that he appears in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and between the entrance harbour and the river Ouse, coal-sheds have been erected for the supply of steamers … the railway company to construct a station, a jetty, coal-staiths, and other conveniences at Goole. The trade of the port consists chiefly in the exportation of coal, lime, the woollen and cotton manufactures of Barnsley, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… The subterraneius contents of the parish are chiefly coal, with the strata peculiar to that formation. Several … a portion of the layers consists of parrot or cannel coal, which sells at a high price for the purpose of being … fifty fathoms beneath the surface, are sixteen beds of coal, some of them two feet thick, and part being, like the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… was approached by Robert Wilcox, offering to prospect for coal on the estate. 12 When Charles Hosier of Wicken Park, … which he held under a 31-year lease from 1623. 27 He lost coal, iron and tools in the aftermath of the siege of 1643. … village lost its post office in the 1980s. 43 There was a coal-dealer in Grafton for a few years in the 1850s. 44 Inns …