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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… net income, 120; patron, Samuel Taylor, Esq., of Eccleston Hall, who gave the site, and chiefly defrayed the cost of the … of Baldwin de Gynes and Sir John de Coupeland. The Hall is said to have been the residence of a family who bore … now chiefly belongs to the Ffrance family, of Rawcliffe Hall. The manor of Larbrick was held in the 36th of Edward …
A History of the County of Warwick
… have become very small. In Kelly's Directory of 1908 the trades directory names 90 farmers in King's Norton, 57 in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1760-1840, p. 94. 1840-1880, p. 125. The multiplicity of trades and of factories and workshops makes a minute … difficult. At least for the later part of this period most trades and workplaces are recorded somewhere, if not in one … for the merchants and craftsmen possessed a 'leather-hall' and controlled inspecting officers. 3 In 1553 there …
A History of the County of Warwick
… relief the contrasting fortunes of the expanding modern trades and the declining 19th-century ones. The economic … by the decline in the relative importance of those trades for which a smaller scale was economically practical, … Russian commitments, the purchase and upkeep of Hamstead Hall, the election of 1886, which he won as a Conservative …
A History of the County of Warwick
… to which slaughterhouses were attached. 21 The Market Hall was opened in 1835 for the general retail market. 22 It … in Newhall Street. 31 It closed in 1934. 32 The Building Trades Exchange in Cannon Street was founded in 1905. 33 … Norton in the 17th and 18th centuries. 35 The New Market Hall at the junction of Prospect Row and Belmont Row was …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of great importance in the development of the Birmingham trades. During the war periods of the 18th and early 19th … have been held jointly by the lords of Erdington and Pype Hall. 68 Both mills existed in the 16th and early 17th … premises were still used both for flour milling and other trades. 88 It was said that £10,000 worth of damage was done …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Haydn, predominated, for until the building of the town hall in the 1830s there was no suitable hall for orchestral performances. 36 As it was, the festivals … from at least the 1750s were the grounds of Duddeston Hall, renamed Vauxhall Gardens in imitation of those in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of the large number of highly developed Birmingham 'trades'. 15 Machinery did not serve in Birmingham, as it did … the six hundred, who included artisans from over a hundred trades, were paid an average weekly wage of 24 s., a figure … were held on Sunday evenings as early as 1818 at Edgbaston Hall, the home of Dr. Johnstone, a consulting physician: a …