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A History of the County of York
… ornamenting the walls; the accounts of the clerk of the works for 1556 included expenditure on altars, tabernacle, … candle-lighting was improved in 1820 28 and replaced by gas burners in 1824. 29 Greatly improved gas-lighting was introduced into the choir in 1861 30 and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… then to be a concern of the corporation, extensive works being carried out in Goring in the 1930s. 77 Meanwhile … by very genteel company. 30 The opening of the new water-works and main sewer during the 1850s had an immediate … 45 In the second week of July 1900 day visitors included works outings and over 1,200 members of the Church Lads …
A History of the County of Sussex
… edge of the built-up area c. 1914. 2 East of the town the gas-works had been opened in 1834 in Lyndhurst Road, and there … proliferation of industrial uses near the railway and the gas-works, coupled with the prevailing westerly wind. In …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Other officers appointed later were inspectors of gas lighting and coal duties and of hackney carriages and … nuisances (by 1872), and a medical officer and a clerk of works (by 1878). 30 By 1882 there were committees for general … commissioners agreed with contractors who were to supply gas for 120 street lamps for 21 years, and might supply gas …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the Worthing Exhibition in the town hall, comprising works of art, antiquities, and curiosities, 48 which was … boats used it as a landingplace. 72 By 1866 it was lit by gas, and there were shops on its end platform, 73 and in 1881 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… he was a member, and the author of Sylva and several other works, was born and buried here; and Sir Samuel Romilly …