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A History of the County of Shropshire
… the same time the company bought the Bird in Hand public house at the Nabb 'to safeguard the workers' beer'. 52 In … cinema, Wrockwardine Wood, popularly known as the 'Ranch House', opened in 1946 and closed c. 1958. 58 With the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a further 330 a. under grass. 74 After the First World War house building south of Trench Road further reduced those … blown at the works was reputedly displayed at Reynolds's house. In the 1790s a manager's house was built south of the canal. It later became the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… one had 326. 79 In 1828 Thomas Davies kept school in his house at the Nabb. 80 In 1826 there was Anglican concern … 4 s. 3½ d. being met by the rector, who owned the master's house; his salary was £27 2 s. 10 d. The first master served … had 256 places but only 111 pupils; 36 by 1941, owing to house building at Donnington Wood, it was full. 37 In 1943 a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Yate acquired a third interest in the glassworks manager's house, the rest being bought in 1843 after the works had … Sermons Doctrinal and Practical (1837) were devoted to the house fund. 36 Until the purchase of the house the incumbents had apparently not resided near the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1954. 73 Primitive Methodists also met in 1861 at a house in Bunter's Row, south of the Shrewsbury Canal on the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Pemberton improved the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The parish workhouse was built on the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Shrewsbury abbey undertook to build a new vicarage house opposite the existing rectory in Allscott within two … two-bayed and two-storeyed, with a central stack. 87 That house was sold in 1806 and a new one bought opposite the church, 88 to which the house next door was added by the patron in 1832. 89 A new …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… places in schoolroom and classroom) and a new teacher's house were built opposite the church at Miss Cludde's … demountable classrooms had been added and the teacher's house was being used as an extension; by then, however, there … had a cottage of hers rent-free. 80 By 1856 a teacher's house had been built. 81 In 1878 the efficient master was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… appointed in 1669 and disbursed £31 3 s. 3 d. on pensions, house repairs, paupers' burials, and the like. 38 Between …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… estate and possibly any manorial rights. In 1324 the manor house was ruinous. It was said in 1650 formerly to have stood … by Edward Pemberton to commemorate the building of the house in 1628 and his own completion of a new wing in 1750. 99 The limits of the 17th-century house cannot be defined with certainty but it probably lay in …