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A History of the County of Stafford
… Although amalgamation did not take place the report's proposals were adopted by each borough individually. West … and it appears to have closed in that year. 13 St. Michael's Roman Catholic School. A charity school in connexion with … attendance of 127. 25 From 1878 until the opening of Black Lake Board School in 1885 the premises were leased to the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… barony was divided between his sisters in 1323, one knight's fee in West Bromwich being assigned to his younger sister … that Edward, Lord Dudley, consented to Cardinal Wolsey's dissolution of the priory in 1525. 35 It was presumably in … of the site of the hall on the opposite side of the former lake, 78 is an 18th-century rectangular planned farm of red …
A History of the County of Stafford
… End. The estate was then divided: the house passed to Lowe's sister Sarah on condition that she continued to live there, … went to his brother Alexander. 82 In 1772, after Alexander's death, the farms also passed to Sarah. 83 She died in 1774, … conveyed land at Finchpath, including a croft called Black Lake, to Henry Jesson. 22 John Jesson of West Bromwich, who …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in the school for a short time and then met at Prince's Assembly Rooms on the corner of High Street and Lombard … The Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance registered the People's Hall in High Street in 1936 and Ruskin Hall in Lombard … Ways, the area around the junction of Swan Lane and Black Lake where five roads meet, and was presumably on or close to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Main Drainage Authority in 1966. 27 In 1958 the council's first smoke control order came into force. 28 Progress in … and over the next ten years some 15 per cent of the town's population was rehoused. 33 The corporation has built … in 1898; a generating station was built at Black Lake, and the supply began in 1901. 92 In 1928 the Black Lake …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the present Lyndon Street and extended southeast to Mayer's Green. 63 East of the village there was a road running from the church to Mayer's Green via the present Church Vale (formerly Sot's Hole) and … called Finchpath originally extended as far south as Black Lake (Nether Finchpath) and west to Harvills Oak, 15 and in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… services as well as rent; the standard service was a day's labour a week, for which the tenant received 8 sheaves of … and to help carry the two yearly firme to St. Paul's. 22 In 1297 the tenants received an allowance of grain from … this was extended after 1935, the excavated pits forming a lake adjoining the branch canal. 13 Gravel beds have also …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the Isleworth Mill River (later the Duke of Northumberland's River). Further works to the same end were recommended by a … & Co. Ltd., The Old House, Southlands, and Dr. Corkery's house, and the 'Swan'. Elmsdale House, at the centre of the … and West Drayton U.D.C., West Drayton Incl. Award. Lake's Uxbridge Appendix to the Almanacks (1840). T. B. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… end of the 13th century the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's claimed various liberties in their manor of West Drayton, … the pound gates. Two rates yielded a total of £8 7 s. 7 d., most of which was spent on relief, particularly, in … 1840, p. 2250. M.R.O., D.R.O. 1 (W.D.): rate book, 1841. Lake's Uxbridge Appendix to Almanacks (1842), and cf. ibid. …
A History of the County of Essex
… and later there are many references to a field called the Lake, which lay on the east bank of the Channelsea river just … by its use as one of the main sources of east London's water supply. The West Ham Waterworks Co., founded about … river. 14 The company later took over also St. Thomas's (or Pudding) Mill, on Pudding Mill river, and by 1849 its …