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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… about three o'clock in the morning a sudden and dreadfull fire broke out in the workhouse of [illegible] the same …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… from home on the 29th September, 1796, his house caught fire by accident, the wind being violent, the sparks were …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… all their estates. It was at length burnt down. Of the fire above noticed, I received rather varying accounts, … that it was occasioned by airing one of the rooms where a fire was left burning, and not attended to. However, the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Home Guard were formed, and Worming- ford was allocated a fire engine. 83 A village hall, built in 1949 on the south …
A History of the County of Essex
… his stockade of Gerner which had been destroyed by fire. 32 That was presum- ably on the site of Garnons, 1¼ …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… A stratum of fine clay is found, of which the best fire-bricks are made. The population has greatly increased, …
A History of the County of York
… at Easter; wine for washing the altars on Maundy Thursday; fire-wood and an oven to bake the oblates. 17 The four … Matthew who raised the standard of the services. 80 The fire of 1829 destroyed all the woodwork of the choir. It was … 19th century the minster was entirely unheated. After the fire of 1829, a large stove was erected in the Norman crypt, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… shipping; the suggestion that it provided the base for a fire-beacon seems untenable. St. Aldhelm's Chapel, Worth …
A History of the County of Sussex
… station was built in Union Place near by in 1939. 36 A fire-engine was given to the town by a resident in 1815, and kept in the lock-up until 1835; thereafter the fire station was at the town hall. A new engine was ordered … 1839, and in 1855 the local board set up the town's first fire brigade, consisting of 30 men. 37 By 1891 there were …
A History of the County of Sussex
… facade with Ionic columns and pilasters, was destroyed by fire in 1901, 16 and the Marine Hotel was demolished in 1965. … the pavilion at the seaward end had been rebuilt after a fire with a dance hall and sun lounges. 84 The former …