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A History of the County of Oxford
… compete and closed its Witney branch in 1885, though the Birmingham Banking Company opened a rival Witney branch the … Gilletts' being taken over in 1919 by Barclays, and the Birmingham Banking Company becoming the Metropolitan and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the 1820s to Burford, Banbury, Oxford, London, Birmingham, Bristol, Swindon, and Warwick, and by the 1850s …
A History of the County of Oxford
… built in 1975 to designs by Radford Harper Associates of Birmingham, replacing a church in a former Anglican … 'Marketing of Agric. Produce in 18th-cent. Oxon.' (Birmingham Univ. PhD thesis, 1981), pp. 332, 478, 4901, 516, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WITTON, UPPER, a hamlet, in the parish and union of Aston, Birmingham division of the hundred of Hemlingford, N. … of the county of Warwick, 3 miles (N. E. by E.) from Birmingham; containing 157 inhabitants. This place, at the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… children of the poor. The Bedford branch of the London and Birmingham railway passes on the north-west of the town. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by the road from Coventry to Daventry; the London and Birmingham railway also passes through the parish, in which … coal at a depth of 300 to 400 feet from the surface. The Birmingham canal, which forms a junction with the … by the Essington and Wyrley canal. The Liverpool and Birmingham railway, also, passes within a mile of the town, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood inclined plane. 84 In 1849 the Shrewsbury & Birmingham (later G.W.R.) line from Wellington to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… that it was joined with Spartan Steel & Alloys Ltd. of Birmingham to form the Shropshire Steel Co. Ltd., which … of the company probably passed to Rollason & Slater of Birmingham, wire manufacturers. The works closed in 1902. 73 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the Jubilee chapel. Designed by A.S.S.Q. Associates, of Birmingham, it was built by Patrick Smith. 48 V.C.H. Salop. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of fine steel has very much decayed since the rise of Birmingham and Sheffield: those made here formerly brought …