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A History of the County of Oxford
… to import brick from far afield before the opening of the railway, although no local brickworks are known. Houses … looms in 1858, 169 presumably in anticipation of the railway; a power-loom shed was built south of the mill pond … the east side of High Street in 1721, the Blanket Weavers' Company (founded 1711) met in a barn on the opposite side of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… self-regulation through the newly founded Blanket Weavers' Company. 22 By then, however, vestry government was … successor Arthur Lea Leigh. 289 Until the advent of the railway the need to haul coal by road probably limited the … street-lighting was adopted in the late 1830s. 299 The gas company's contract was annually renegotiated with the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… London connections whose son became warden of the Blanket Company, and several members of the Early family were Quakers …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of land, chiefly arable; it is traversed by the road and railway from Norwich to Yarmouth, and bounded on the south by … a manufactory for fire-bricks and draining-tiles. There is railway communication with the neighbourhood of Wolsingham, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of which 70 are common or waste. The London and Brighton railway passes through. The living is a perpetual curacy; net … the poor. The Bedford branch of the London and Birmingham railway passes on the north-west of the town. Assemblies, … by the Basingstoke canal, and the London and South-Western railway, the latter of which has one of its principal …
A History of the County of Essex
… of sprats were caught by stow-boats for farm manure. The railway enabled the sprats to be transported to London … Co. Ltd. New machinery and plant was introduced and the company enjoyed a decade of expansion, making many ships for … A malting sold in 1859 stood near the site of the proposed railway line. 29 G. O. Green ran a brewery in Paget Road …
A History of the County of Essex
… it was in a 'disgraceful state' and the Tendring Hundred Railway Co. re- placed it with a new road, which had … lived in the parish in 1863. 14 The Tendring Hundred Railway opened a line from the Hythe to Wivenhoe in 1863, … 1867, despite disputes with the Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea Railway, it had extended the single track line to Walton, …
A History of the County of Essex
… system with Colchester's Hythe sewage works. 91 A gas company was formed in 1861, perhaps that described in 1878 as …
A History of the County of Essex
… they continued until 1933. 88 In 1864 Henry Ruffnell, a railway official, held evangelical meetings, mainly for railway nav- vies, in a barn. His successor, George Carter …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the town. An act was passed in 1845 for making a railway called the Wear-Valley railway: the line runs from the Bishop-Auckland and Weardale … water-works established under an act passed in 1845, by a company having a capital of 20,000. In 1847 an act was passed …