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A History of the County of Essex
… com- bined with six neighbouring parishes to provide three men to serve in the navy. 33 In the later 18th century … 1796 at a time of high prices: 20 payments were made to men with families, totalling 108 persons. The number of … and 1808. A roundsman system started in 1816, unemployed men being sent to work for different farmers for four days at …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… 500 yards N. of the church, were built in 1675 for six men and four women by John King, son of Henry King, Bishop of …
A History of the County of York
… music. It was usually sung by choirboys and professional men singers, forerunners of the post-Reformation choir. 68 … of lay clerks in the choir. The first of such singing-men seem to have appeared early in the 16th century. Holgate … were fewer than twenty, the chapter were to pay singing-men to take their place. In fact there were only ten vicars …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1805. 6 The early promoters of the resort were local men, especially members of the Bacon and Wicks families. 7 … Fund spent £7,800, much of it in helping small business men, especially lodging-house keepers, about whom there was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… excluding shellfish, were landed in 1914. 53 In 1887 93 men and 17 boys were employed in fishing, 54 but between 1900 … declined further, 56 and by 1951 it employed less than 10 men. 57 Mills. The mill furlong in Worthing's east field was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… set up the town's first fire brigade, consisting of 30 men. 37 By 1891 there were sub-stations in East and West …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Road near by, and in 1925 changed its name to the Working Men's Club and Institute. It survived in 1977. 51 The … was opened as a public house for the benefit of working men in 1872, providing reading, refreshment, and committee … 1883 there were two rowing clubs, one of them for working men, and a bicycle club, 11 and by the 1890s there were clubs …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… lost; figures of woman in pedimental head-dress, of two men in armour, one with part of a sword missing, and of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… social activities and organizations, such as a men's club in 1907, and a church hall was opened in 1909. 67 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… were particularly active inclosers and, according to the men of Wrockwardine in 1650, had inclosed 300 a. in Eyton and …