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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 5 and at Dunston are some alkali-works, and a large factory for patent anchors. The village, which contains …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the road, is a brassfoundry; and nearly opposite is a factory for every kind of furnishing ironmongery, smoke and …
A History of the County of Essex
… The 4 silk-winders in 1891 presumably worked in the silk factory there. The absence of any large houses in the parish …
Survey of London
… aptly placed, which matches had been rub'd over with gunpowder, on purpose to keep them surely burning, and by the …
Survey of London
… with eggs, oranges and squibs. A squib fell on a bag of gunpowder "and sett dyvers men a fyre." One of the pinnaces … until the greater part of the Palace was destroyed. Gunpowder was brought, and orders given to blow up buildings …
Old and New London
… the Queen's DinnerChristian IV. of Denmark and James I.The Gunpowder PlotLibrary of James I. at WhitehallGeorge … letter which was the cause of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, and Guy Fawkes was examined in the king's …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… house with his valuable models, and another enormous factory (I don't know of what), besides a number of private … which afterwards extended to an oilman's, and caught the gunpowder in the shop, blew it up. The Ragged School, on …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… quickly as I think we should. 17. Went errands, sketched factory, cut up wood, drew factory, on with Willington Quay. Our late acquaintance … Very rainy although hot. 21. Went errands, redrew partly factory block, redrew almost entirely Harvey's Summit Tunnel …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the works were purchased by Mr. Dixon, of the Calder iron-factory, by whose son, Mr. William Dixon, the present … volumes. There are likewise a school connected with the factory at Woodside, and several Sunday schools in which are …