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A History of the County of Shropshire
… milk and potatoes on advantageous terms. 16 By 1936 motor transport had become so common that there was reputedly no …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 50 A National school opened in 1846 and a short-lived British school in 1860. 51 George Collins, vicar 1872-8, 52 … to the enlarged council school at Hartshill. 98 Oakengates British School opened in 1860. It was re-established in 1864 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… was regarded traditionally as the most important of all British industries, and as such was the most highly …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Park (SO 8101) in 1850. 1 A coin of Germanicus and Romano-British pottery found in 1863 in the long barrow on Bown …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 43 In 1953 the estate granted a long lease to the Forestry Commission, which cut down the mature oak, cleared the … 55; inf. from Mr. R. G. Hands, District Manager, Forestry Commission, Tangham, Woodbridge, Suff.; inf. from Mr. H. S. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Newmarket for residents to take jobs there until motor transport came into use, and employment in the rural part of …
A History of the County of Essex
… there now (1965). Before the coming of the railway road transport provided much occupation in the village. In 1686 …
A History of the County of Essex
… their Mill Lane chapel. This building was also used for a British school formed in 1854, 21 which in 1859 had 85 pupils …
A History of the County of Essex
… comprised widely separated hamlets. 29 At Church End the British Land Co., which had bought the Woodford Hall estate … was electrified in 1947, when it was taken over by London Transport. 106 This had the effect of closing the level … streams of heavy traffic through Woodford. Public road transport was slow to serve Woodford. In 1823 25 coaches a …