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A History of the County of Stafford
… in Horninglow, and through Anslow, in Rolleston: the name 'Women's Way' was recorded in the late 12th century for the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… by the early 14th century there were several fishermen and women living at Burton. 19 In the 1220s Abbot Richard granted … to employ several hundred people, many of them evidently women, 10 and of the 425 people employed in 1838 nearly 100 … the occupiers by 1904. The firm, which employed local women to repair damaged curtains and netting brought from …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the saint with a red cow and a staff said to be helpful to women suffering labour pains. 13 When the chapel on Andresey … 'attendance rarely reaches 20 and these are mostly old women from the almshouses'. 4 Again held on a Thursday … were amalgamated in 1927. 16 By 1893 there was a team of women district visitors whose duties included relieving the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Elizabeth Paulet (née Blount) founded an almshouse for women in 1593, the family had ceased to be resident in Burton … industries were particularly suited for the employment of women, 14 and so failed to attract many new residents to the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 2 There was a benelovent society for the relief of lyingin women in Burton and Burton Extra townships in the early 19th century, supported entirely by women subscribers. It is not known how long it survived. 3 In …
A History of the County of Stafford
… probably first- and second-class pools for men and one for women. 11 A ladies' section of the swimming club was formed … and promoting social events. Plans in 1886 to form a Young Women's Club and Christian Association may have been … in the 1890s, including a Pleasant Wednesday Afternoon for women held at George Street Methodist church. 20 A club for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… besides the British Legion branch started in 1921 45 and a Women's Institute of 1936. 46 A Burwell Society, started in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… stricter terms in 1707, there were 36 full members, half women, and c. 135 'hearers'. It regularly excommunicated …
Old and New London
… England, a few were left behind, being married to English women; and that these were ordered by the king to dwell … for the space of a year. There were almshouses for poor women in the upper and lower churchyard, at the time of the … are six almshouses, with six rooms, and twelve poor women in each house, who are allowed 2s. per week; and in the …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… utensils and goods in trust in his dwelling house, in the women's workroom, warehouse and cabinet workshop, and a … 3 rooms to fasten the Damask hangings too 4 15 To Men & Women's Time Cutting making and putting up the Crimson silk …