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A History of the County of Shropshire
… and a social centre for the unemployed were in use, and schools' facilities were increasingly available for public …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Education Department, opened boys' and girls' and infant schools in 1879. A small Standard I boys' school was built in … board was competent, even showing initiative, 95 and its schools were usually efficient. 96 Weekly fees of 2 d. 97 … a proposal for evening continuation classes in the board schools. 2 From 1891 there were cookery and drawing classes; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… had a large west gallery and seated 610, 430 seats being free. 44 Much of the initial seating was in square pews, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and 333 in the evening, although there were only 140 free and 146 rented seats. Attendance was said to average 150 … average numbers. The chapel had 500 seats, 300 of them free. 57 In 1864 it was rebuilt in diapered red and blue … Street, St. George's, seated 400; half the seats were free. The principal services were attended by 250 in 1869, a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… with c. 63 at festivals. In 1843 the seating - with 63 free seats and 110 children's seats, apparently in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Bullock (d. 1681) and Jane Schofield (d. 1705) kept schools in their houses. A 'schoolhouse' at Allscott was … school 'by subscription' and by 1818 two well conducted schools for c. 63 cottagers' children, poor pupils' fees … whose salary was then £45, had a cottage of hers rent-free. 80 By 1856 a teacher's house had been built. 81 In 1878 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1309 as Lord Strange of Blakemere (d. 1324). Fulk claimed free warren in Wrockwardine in 1292. Fulk's son and heir John, Lord Strange (d. 1349), who was granted free warren in his demesnes in 1333, granted the manor in … the manor of Pontesbury, with which Charlton descended. 32 Free warren in both manors' demesnes was granted in 1307. In …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1840. 53 No nonconformists were meeting in 1851. United Free Methodists had a chapel at Overley Hill from 1862. It …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the patronage of the Hon. M. Langley, by whom three schools are partly supported. The church was repaired and … the Independents, and Wesleyans have places of worship. A free grammar school was founded in the reign of Elizabeth, … Amphlett; appropriator, the Vicar of Bromsgrove. Some schools in connexion with the chapel, have been recently …