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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… but has to provide an usher for a lower school, in which reading, writing, and arithmetic are taught. A national …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… libraries in the later 19th century 16 but in 1902 no reading room 'worthy of the name'. 17 In that year the U.D.C. …
Old and New London
… at Rome being 139 feet, and that of the British Museum reading-room 140 feet. The floors of these dome-covered halls … A considerable portion of the west arcade forms the reading-room of the Art Library. The staircase leading to the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… hands of 'rebels': one Sunday they dragged him from the reading-desk and into the churchyard where they burnt the … from the later 1780s, was replaced by a pulpit and reading-desk 'in a more suitable position'. At the same time … 1901, 1961; plate on screen; plate of 1965 on one of the reading desks. 1st Rep. Com. Midland Mining, S. Staffs. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… alphabet or to the cheapest private schools to be taught reading and sewing. The two National schools accounted for … library, which by 1849 contained some 1,600 volumes, and a reading room. Lectures were arranged and in 1844 there were … a separate mechanics' institute, with its own library and reading room. 1 Little is known of it. It apparently lasted …
A History of the County of Stafford
… more offices and a committee room, 12 and in 1924 the reading room of the former free library building next to the …