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A History of the County of Stafford
… 1574, and dog-fighting were popular sports in the 1850s. 6 Some traditional festivities were still observed in the … and the custom of 'heaving' in Easter Week was popular in some districts. 7 May Day celebrations, with a maypole, were … Co. Ltd. was formed in 1905 to take over the Chronicle and some other local papers, but it went into voluntary …
A History of the County of Stafford
… were also a house and foundry near Christ Church built some ten years before by James Roberts. 80 The southern end … flanked by stuccoed buildings. It had the appearance of 'some smart country town . . . But to dispel such bright … council estate is of the same period, and more recently some light industry has been established in Friar Park Road. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… enclosed, and is chiefly owned by a Mr. Johnson. Here is some as good clay land as any in the neighbourhood. The …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by a fire on 26 November 1934, after which all roofs and some of the stonework were renewed. The chancel (originally … been, practically if not formally, united to West Dean at some unknown early date. That of Chilgrove was already in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in the northern part it is more abrupt, and stands back at some distance from the river, leaving a broad margin of … the Castle field, the Whiteacres, the Wetearth. 6 Some of these doubtless represent approvements from the … tenants of the other berewicks long continued to do. 11 At some date between 1166 and 1189 Liverpool was granted by …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and was discharged from paying first-fruits and tenths at some date between 1723 8 and 1763. 9 Part of the bounty money … numerous emblazoned banners hanging from the roof, with some helmets, coronets, gauntlets, and spurs, said to be the … walls and black-letter texts of the early 17th century, 23 some of which survive behind the altar and the reredos …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a few small shopkeepers. 17 The mill had been used for some years for the manufacture of paper. 18 Because of the … 'Lord's Piece' to two tenants, 25 and it is possible that some of the lord's lands in the open field were consolidated … rights to 'outdwellers and foreigners' was attacked, and some tenants were censured for pasturing an excessive number …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the Green now stands, and Mill Lane (now Money Lane). 38 Some 16thcentury building survives, notably Old Meadows, Mill … still, in 1947, more than 100 acres of horticulture, 94 some of it interspersed with residential districts. … 96 In 1958 the Green was an open space of grass and trees some third of a mile long from north to south with an average …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 33 and one George Banister was the occupant in 1653. 34 At some date between 1653 and 1660 John Biscoe ( c. 1613– c. … Early Charters, pp. xx, xxii-xxvi, and R. E. Latham, 'Some minor enigmas in medieval records', E.H.R. lxxiv. 664. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… repair. 89 In 1587 the lease included fishing rights and some adjacent land, 90 and in 1615 a slaughter-house, 91 …