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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Collins, vicar 1872-8, 52 tried in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where 250 children … Oliver's 82 expense aided by parliamentary and National Society grants; Oliver (d. 1867) left the school an endowment … by 1885. 56 In 1894 the schools affiliated to the National Society to obtain a building-improvement grant; 57 they were …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… most buildings were erected by local tradesmen: in 1854, for instance, a block including the Charlton Arms was erected … map of Ketley manor of 1794 and the 1" O. S. Map of 1833. For the Significance of the SE. boundary of Priorslee see map … south-eastern edge of Snedshill coppice; 23 probably built for John Horton & Co., the barracks formed a T-shaped group …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, save for the Wesleyan chapel at Ketley Bank, no nonconformist … and United Reformed Church. About 1764 a Wesleyan society was established at Ketley Bank by J. W. Fletcher, … the Salvation Army Centre in Hartshill Road opened. 40 The Christian or Plymouth Brethren met in the Gospel Room, New …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in market gardens around London would traditionally return for the wakes, some with dowries. 57 Horse and donkey races … or later. 62 By 1808 there was a brotherly or friendly society at Oakengates, perhaps that which met in the Leopard … (Manchester Unity) met at the Bull's Head, Oakengates. 66 For many years after its foundation in 1938 the Uxacona lodge …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… was confined largely to fixing HINGEs, and rather later for securing the corner blocks in the seat frames of CHAIRs … Joseph Whitworth fifty years later, most screws were made for a specific job and there were few in the shops. The … are apparent, expressed in advertisements like the one for an 'Apprentice ... wood-screw filer' [Newspapers (1760)], …
Alumni Oxonienses
… minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the … India Company's minister at Poplar 1689, "a member of the society for reformation of marines," rector and vicar of … 1698-1723; knighted 20 May, 1673, president of the royal society 1680, M.P. Plympton 1685-7, Windsor 1689, till …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… pavement, of which an engraving was exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries by Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.S.A., who … in the gift of Lord Ducie: the tithes have been commuted for 265; there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe comprises … memory of Sir George Huntley. Here is a place of worship for Baptists. Robert Bridges, in 1722, bequeathed 500, of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… having a station, situated just inside Rodborough parish, for Woodchester. The line was closed for passenger traffic in … has been recorded as an inn since 1766 when a friendly society met there. 35 A friendly society continued to meet there in 1816. 36 In 1690 the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the Victorian clergy 46 probably had some effect in promoting attendance 47 despite the rival attraction of … of the nave roof, then octagonal, and looks intended for a spire which was never added. The 15th-century roofs of … the private chapel of the lords of Ditton Valence: a brass for Henry English (d. 1393) and his wife is set in the floor …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Ditton Camoys in 1291 had 32 villeins each holding 15 a. for weekwork and other services, and free tenants and molmen … a milkman, baker, butcher, and the Newmarket Co-operative Society's van, to supplement weekly shopping trips to … Ch. 65924; cf. C. Dyer, Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society, 138. P.R.O., SC 2/155/56, esp. rott. 1, 2, 7, 8d.; …