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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… incorporation was granted by Henry IV., and the municipal body consists of a mayor, recorder, twelve aldermen, and the …
Old and New London
… that this section was kept entirely separate from the main body of the building. Its entire length was only about 1,150 … arches, with their scagliola pillars, through which the body of the hall is seen, are really its great ornament. THE … in his robes as Grand Master of the Order of the Bath. The body of the memorial is of grey granite, with columns and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… that the south chapel must always have projected from the body of the church. A south porch, whose date of construction … was set in hand by the vestry. 87 The result was that the body of the church, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, … the east window of the former north chapel. Within the body of the church a sanctuary was defined by an elliptical …
A History of the County of Stafford
… on by W. J. Smith & Son Ltd. Smiths, a firm of motor-body builders and formerly coach-builders, had been …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Moor Street Board School. A ragged school was opened by a body of trustees in a newly erected building in Moor Street … at Hill Top in 1843 and seceded from the parent body in 1844. 5 In 1843 Reuben Farley proposed the … own purposes. 21 The Institute continued as a voluntary body and still existed in 1970. The three-storeyed Institute …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 94 and in 1854 the West Bromwich Improvement Act set up a body of 16 improvement commissioners (13 elected members and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… A new choral society which was formed in 1876, the earlier body apparently having lapsed, was disbanded in 1906. 28 In … In 1856 the West Bromwich Association for Working Men, a body modelled on the Wednesbury Recreation Society, was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… there can have been little distinction between the burgess body proper and the gild. Hence it is probable that, as in … organization; and it should be regarded, not as a distinct body, but rather as simply adding certain new executive and … Merchant); the 16th century also shows us in existence a body of jurats like those of Leicester (Bateson, Rec. Leic.), …