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A History of the County of Stafford
… 42 per cent went to dame schools to learn the alphabet or to the cheapest private schools to be taught reading and … had established three special schools for handicapped or maladjusted children: Millfield Day School in Westminster … was opened in 1866; 83 nothing more is known of this or of a ragged school in Newton Road noted in 1869. 84 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the overlordship was said in 1432 to belong to the Sutton or Dudley family, 36 to whom the other half of the Dudley … still holding the manor court in 1580 84 and died in 1586 or 1587. 85 She was succeeded by her son Walter, who died in … 'in very desperate circumstances and then absconding'; all or most of the demesne lands were 'neither set, mowed, nor …
A History of the County of Stafford
… built on the corner of Newton and Hamstead Roads in 1803 or 1804, but it was sold to the Congregationalists in 1823. … John Glover in 1833. 88 By 1851 there were eight chapels or meetingplaces in West Bromwich. Three were identified as … Black Lake where five roads meet, and was presumably on or close to the site of the later church in Old Meeting …
A History of the County of Stafford
… backto-back. Normally there was one privy to every five or six houses. There were no arrangements for cleansing the … the washing of anything dirty like 'filthie clothes' or 'beastes bellies' in or near the spring. 37 Despite the condemnation of its water …
A History of the County of Stafford
… sick clubs, money clubs, clothes clubs, and clubs for land or furniture'. The oldest society was then 56 years old, but … were in fact ad hoc bodies which broke up after a year or two; money clubs, as a West Bromwich collier stated in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of West Dean proper are set out in the 15th century as follows: 1 beginning (1 mile south of the village) at the … but the gable ends have mullioned windows either of stone or of old plaster imitation. A lower wing behind has a … Lord Selsey. Azure a lion with two tails ermine crowned or and on a canton or a molet gules. While in the hands of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Wavertree, the Toxteths and Garston, as well as Smeddon or Smithdown, the Esmedun of Domesday. These areas have been … in 1835, 1894, and 1902. The continuous house-covered or urban area economically dependent upon Liverpool includes … Henceforward the descent of the lordship of the borough follows the descent of the honour of which it formed a part; …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of cattle farming, and there is no mention of a sheepfold or of other buildings connected specifically with … greater part of the manor estate continued to be leased or rented as a unit throughout the 18th and early 19th … This right, originally attributed to all householders or masters of families, had been restricted by 1790 to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Two branches, the Drayton Stream and the Frays River, or Cowley Stream, which carries compensation water from the … were made in 1842 for the construction of regulating sills or weirs across both streams, 13 and one sill, across the … in the parish are comparatively insignificant. The Bigley, or Brickley, Ditch, in effect a branch of the Colne, forms …