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A History of the County of Gloucester
… There is little direct documentary evidence of Dean's mining industry before the mid 13th century. The rich … noted employing over 442 miners, including many boys and 6 women; the bulk of the mines were in Parkend and Ruardean … 13. Female labour was not used at the larger mines 99 but women hoisted coal and loaded it on carts and mules at the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the 1670s and the following decades a few people, mostly women, received financial help from the county stock, which … paid apprenticeship and funeral expenses. 97 Seven women, one of them a foster mother, received regular help in 1726 98 and a child abandoned at St. White's was reared at the county's expense from 1768. 99 Because …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… from a dissenting chapel just outside the Forest at Brain's Green, in Awre parish. 20 His congregations included the … under construction from 1872, was in use. 37 The church's fortunes in the late 19th century mirrored those of the … and young adults. 47 The church, which in 1907 opened an institute in Belle Vue Road 48 and at the end of the First …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… woodlands and waste after the establishment of the king's ironworks on the demesne in 1612 and the licensing of the … to take cordwood for their works. Leases of the king's ironworks to the earl of Pembroke in 1612 77 and to Sir … in wooded grounds and gardens. 77 The house became an institute in the early 20th century 78 and was used as …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… which had informed an earlier description of the region's residents as 'a sort of robustic wild people'. 95 Excitable … a friendly society 89 and in 1855 the former was used by a women's society. 90 Some societies, including at least two … Wesley Road opened in 1930 and had basement rooms for an institute. 9 It was the town's main public meeting place in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… has led many a writer on Middlesex and London astray. Stow's statement is to the effect that: 'The 2d. of King Henry III … report was made to Secretary Cecil as to an assembling of women at White Webbs, on Enfield Chase, to maintain a right … most shameful powder'd hair men, and painted and spotted women. Some men played with a silver ball and some took other …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… area and a brief note on them appears in the Inventory ( s.v. Minchinhampton, where they are used to indicate the … published in 1813 and 1817, the Commission's debt can hardly be exaggerated. Plans of sites revealed by … numerous for individual mention, I express the Commission's sincere thanks. The names of the directors of public …
A History of the County of Stafford
… by Boydell & Brewer on behalf of London University's Institute of Historical Research, the volume was researched …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Somerset County Council and the University of London's Institute of Historical Research. That partnership is … III, which was published in 1974. The County Council's responsibility for the Victoria History of Somerset has, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Somerset County Council and the University of London's Institute of Historical Research. That partnership is … III, which was published in 1974. The County Council's responsibility for the Victoria History of Somerset has, …