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A History of the County of Gloucester
… by 1881 Home Farm had a steam saw-mill as well as a small gas-works. 8 Several carters were recorded in Westonbirt in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Bowldown Road was turnpiked in 1798 as the Gloucester-Malmesbury road. 25 A toll-house near Park Corner 26 was … Rom. Roads, i. 131. P.N. Glos. (E.P.N.S.), i. 114. Malmesbury Roads Act, 38 Geo. III, c. 66. Bryant, Map of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Malmesbury, N. division of Wilts; adjacent to the north-west side of Malmesbury, and containing 1504 inhabitants. The living is a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the 1841 and 1857 maps of Weymouth at the S.W. end of a 'gas tunnel'; the tunnel was built under the navigable channel in the Backwater to transmit gas to Melcombe Regis from the gasworks on the W. bank. a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… with the road, under supervision of H. F. Traylen. (452) Gas Works. A range in red brick with yellow brick arches and … hipped roof survives; it probably dates from 1824 when the Gas Company was formed ( Mercury, 16 July). It comprises two … rubble walls, stands on the acute angle formed between Gas Lane and the line of the medieval wall, here represented …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… repealing an act granted in 1789, and are lighted with gas from works established in 1825 by a company of … and carbonate of iron held in solution by carbonic acid gas. The proportions of the ingredients have not yet been …
A History of the County of Essex
… to the south-west corner of the parish by the Earls Colne Gas Works from 1863. The East Anglian Electric Supply Co. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… right angles, and paved with pebbles. It is lighted with gas; supplied with water partly from wells, and partly by …
Old and New London
… Its Latter DaysPictures in the Court RoomBridewell DockThe Gas WorksTheatres in WhitefriarsPepys' Visits to the Theatre … lane sloping from Fleet Street to the river, with gas works at its foot and mean shops on either side was once … burial-ground at Bridewell, now the coal-yard of the City Gas Company, was buried, in 1752, Dr. Johnson's friend and …
Old and New London
… (better known as Sir Charles Long) and the Earl of Malmesbury. Here, too, lived, in the time of Pitt and Fox, …