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A History of the County of Middlesex
… 5-storeyed blocks containing 120 flats in 1949. 38 In 1950 work began on two blocks off Grove Road, the 5-storeyed brick … 16 flats in Shipton Street, near the Nag's Head estate. 43 Work began on the more ambitious Dorset estate, called after … clearance offering a variety of jobs for men and part-time work for women. Both birth and death rates had fallen, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Cross hospital, who hoped to enlist the rich in 'the great work of sanitary improvement and social amelioration'. He … Morning Chronicle in 1851, which later became his great work. 43 He added descriptions of tailors, costermongers, … ½ a. between Wilmot and Finnis streets in 1873 and work began on 21 blocks (for 210 families) in the rest of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… could not afford more space and needed to stay near their work, whether or not they moved within the area. In the late … lodgings. Very few weavers were left, most of those in work being labourers, hawkers, furniture makers, general … building was small-scale. Among the major projects was work on the Red Cow estate by Christopher Forrest of Victoria …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… drawn from costermongers and cabinet makers, thrown out of work by Jewish-owned factories, and local criminals hoping … a., displacing 843 people from 143 houses (196 tenements). Work was delayed by lack of finance until 1933 when the … Brady Street site between Brady and Collingwood streets. Work began on the first block in 1922, which opened in 1923, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… had been reduced by 1987, when 6,070 people travelled to work from Globe Town neighbourhood and 10,230 from Bethnal …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… M93/166. He was dissatisfied with the quality of the work and materials: P.R.O., C 5/557/81. M.L.R. 1711/5/53-5; …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… had had to part with their looms; 3,512 families were at work, most owning one or two looms. Nine per cent of the … like the weaver's, was then beginning to decline, as work paid for daily by the master tailor on his premises gave way to piece work at home. The change, origin of the sweating system, was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… could not afford 1 d. a week and children were set to work in silk manufacturing when very young. 96 Sunday schools … sch., roll 1871: 74 B, 39 G; a.a. 70 B, 35 G. Praised for work but premises unsuitable and probably soon closed. … Street Ragged. 65 Jonathan Duthoit, active in humanitarian work in dist. from 1836, started Sun. sch. in small room in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… associated in 32 ch. activities c. 1891. Mission work inc. preaching from pulpit attached to exterior of ch., … V. established industrial sch. 1868; 56 V.'s 'painstaking' work noted 1898. 57 Bldg. of yellow brick with stone … 2 Ch. said c. 1898 to dispense indiscriminate charity and work 'confined to children'. 3 Par. room, later boys' club, …