Search
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood Acton, 49 and in the late 1940s Ludlow rural district council built two pairs of farm workers' houses … union 1836-1930, 15 Church Stretton rural sanitary district 1872-94, Church Stretton rural district 1894-1934, Ludlow R.D. 1934-74, and South Shropshire …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… bldg., building; bp., bishop; demol., demolished; dist., district; ho., house; min., minister; sch., school; temp., …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… running through to Richmond, later to Earl's Court on the District line, and finally from 1894 between Child's Hill and … Junction line, a joint enterprise whereby the Metropolitan District Railway ran trains from the City to Richmond over … the extreme south part of Acton until 1879, when the District built a line from Turnham Green to Ealing Broadway, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… engineers seeking space near London, began moving into the district in 1900 and concentrated on the south side of Acton … employed 5,400 or nearly four-fifths of the workers in the district and the chemical industry 1,300. Makers of musical …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… no new buildings were provided. Acton became an 'excepted district', responsible for primary and secondary education, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Acton quickly became a mixed industrial and residential district. Laundries were run in private houses, 58 several … completed by 1894. West of Acton Green and adjacent to the District line station, Fairlawn Park was planned in 1880 but … but the demand for cheaper property, as in the rest of the district, prevailed and cottages and laundries were proposed …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Chiswick High Road, but was adjusted in 1894 to follow the District and Piccadilly railway lines. The northern boundary …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… into the Thames. 5 A scheme for the southern part of the district was finished in 1908 and one for the northern part … were appointed. 14 The area lit, known as the Town district, covered the high road from Berrymead Priory to … Lane, was formed from 5½a. bought in 1920. By 1924 the district had 84 a. of parks and open spaces, 78 increased to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of Middlesex Independent. The Acton Gazette and General District Advertiser was founded in 1871, published weekly, … West London Post, it still appeared weekly in 1980. The District Post was founded in 1911 and renamed the Acton and Chiswick District Post and then the Acton District Post in the same …