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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… purchase at the north end of Queen's Road but the war stopped the scheme. The project was revived in 1925 and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Wisbech and the civil war WISBECH AND THE CIVIL WAR The ship money controversy affected Wisbech to the extent … Parliament, though there were a few Royalists; after the war John Fisher was fined £80 for having been in arms against …
A History of the County of Sussex
… to be kept there until 1939, but after the Second World War the park was largely turned over to agriculture. 24 The … was knight of the shire and sheriff, and as Treasurer-at-War in the Low Countries incurred large debts to the Crown. … there c. 1906, 82 but was sold after the Second World War. 83 The second rectory house was known during the 20th …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a distinguished royalist commander during the civil war of the 17th century, was born at Brynn, in the parish. … to have been the station occupied by Owen Glendower in his war with Henry IV., and Abberley Hill the station of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Hailey and Bampton, and much of the rest from consols, War stock, and cash vested in the Official Trustee of … and 87 on deposit, and received half the income from 690 War stock belonging to the West and Walter charities. Both …
A History of the County of Oxford
… commercial development. 2 The break with the town's pre-War economy was completed by the rapid decline, from the … development in the industry after the Second World War brought considerable success, and despite a major crisis … factories at their reopening after the Second World War, when Early's, too, embarked on a muchneeded …
A History of the County of Oxford
… there were few structural changes before the Second World War, when one or two manufacturing firms moved to Witney … 6 capacity remained broadly similar after the Second World War when the main firms operated 475 looms with 322 weavers, … essentially family firms until after the Second World War. 13 A fourth company, James Walker and Sons Ltd of …