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A History of the County of Stafford
… used, as was canal water until that too became polluted by factory refuse. 43 West Bromwich lies within the area …
A History of the County of Stafford
… became a Salvation Army barracks and in 1903 the first factory of the Manifold Printing Co., subsequently Manifoldia …
A History of the County of Stafford
… after the Second World War. 8 During the war a munitions factory was built on the east side of Walsall Road near the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of civil engineering contractors' plant. A new factory was built in 1950, and in 1958 the firm employed a …
A History of the County of Essex
… and early 17th centuries several mills were manufacturing gunpowder, an industry then new in England. 8 There are also … them in 1589 to Thomas and Christopher Gardiner. 49 'The Gunpowder Mill, late Mr. Sturley's', was mentioned in 1597. … under one roof. 98 In 1615 one of these was called the Gunpowder Mill. 99 In 1640 a new lessee undertook to build a …
A History of the County of Essex
… 10 s. charged on a house at Upton, to provide 10 s. for a Gunpowder Plot sermon on 5 November and 2 for bread for the …
A History of the County of Essex
… MARK, Windmill Lane, originated in 1877, with services for factory girls held in a shop in Leytonstone Road. An iron …
A History of the County of Essex
… attendance had risen to 145, but many of the pupils were factory boys who stayed only three months. 20 Meanwhile the …
A History of the County of Essex
… diverse as calicoprinting, paper-making, distilling, and gunpowder manufacture. 1 Until the 19th century most of the … bootmakers and shoemakers, 2 curriers, and 4 saddlers. 34 Gunpowder manufacture appears to have started in West Ham … the capital. Frye was the technical expert. By 1750 the factory was trading under his name, and he continued to …
A History of the County of Essex
… About 1852 the rubber firm of S. W. Silver & Co. opened a factory near Ham creek, just inside the parish and thus … Silvertown. 97 A few workers' houses were built beside the factory, but the development of the area was slow at first. …