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A Dictionary of London
… Ward. Devised by will of Sir Wm. Herriott, 1506, to the Drapers' Company, by the name of "Vernon's quay." It seems to be on or …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a private standard-gauge network, which linked most of the company's interests by 1855. The network reached its peak … excluded Lilleshall Co. employees as they were fed by the company at the New Yard. 51 A dining room provided in 1900 … after work for 'socials'. About the same time the company bought the Bird in Hand public house at the Nabb 'to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… New Yard. 4 Engineering rapidly became as important to the company as its coal, iron, and brick production, and it was well enough established by 1862 to allow the company to exhibit and win prizes at the London International … and blowing engines were manufactured, largely from the company's raw materials, and production in general was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ironstone; the mines are let on lease to the Low-Moor Iron Company by Miss Currer, and T. Carvick, Esq., to whom the … valuable portions of the church furniture. The Low-Moor Company and Messrs. John and Charles Hardy were likewise …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Four cottages near the railway were built by the railway company. 36 More houses were put up there in the 20th century … 92 There was street lighting by 1965. 93 The Bognor water company supplied parts of the parish in 1928. 94 Some Yapton …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 1832, draws attention to 'the practice in retail linen-drapers' shops of calling certain articles 'yard wide', when …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and by the trustees to W. Cumber & Son in 1973. 54 The company remained the owner of the whole farm until 2000, when …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in 1846, enabling the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Company to make a branch to Whaley bridge, 12 miles in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of large works. The iron-works belonging to the Yniscedwyn company are considered as among the oldest of the kind now in … blown by a large steamengine, made by the Neath Abbey iron company; as well as by a powerful machine erected in 1828, … Crane, Esq., the managing partner of the Ynyscedwyn iron company, discovered a mode of using stone-coal in the blast …