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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fenland, yielding £5 a year in 1729, when £3 12s., or 1 s. a month for each child, went to the school. 81Dorothy, … attended the day school, about half boys, but few over 10. Working boys were catered for by winter night schools. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the southwest old open field divisions and the Car Dyke or Old Tillage, the 2nd-century navigation channel, which, … 1797, and 1813 might levy local rates increased from 1 s. per acre in 1740 to 5 s. in 1813, to support borrowing … matches were recorded from the 1850s, 32and a cricket club was established in 1889. 33From the 1950s the recreation …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from suing their fellows elsewhere, in courts Christian or royal courts, and penalized those who did so before it had … from Cambridge in 1520. In 1513-14 it presented hired men for gaming in alehouses at night and sleeping by day. … overseers denied relief to old people living with their working children. 56 About 1830 large families sometimes …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1342. A few nuns remained in the buildings at Waterbeach or escaped back to them, but in 1350-1 royal and papal … 50whose son James, the parish's leading dissenter and radical, 51occupied it until his death c. 1914. His son … at Waterbeach. 83From the 1840s until 1897 the Halls, not working farmers after 1860, inhabited Waterbeach Lodge, a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Waterbeach Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY Four men and 3 women were not attending church in 1675, and 6 men … 1767 was giving sermons, before and after the labourers' working hours, in a barn nearby. By 1773 he sent out working … dissenting worship in 1778, 38and a barn on H. P. Standley's ground in 1787 by a group including John Baxter, long their …
Survey of London
… the brilliant and decisive Victory achieved by His Majesty's Forces in conjunction with those of His Allies, on the … the bridge made a detour to cross the river by Blackfriars or Westminster Bridges, which were free. 58 Under the … design but made wider to take a greater volume of traffic; or (3) that a modern bridge should be built in place of the …
Old and New London
… Waterloo Place and Her Majesty's Theatre CHAPTER XVII. WATERLOO PLACE AND HER MAJESTY'S … extent of fields. There were no houses, excepting three or four in the immediate neighbourhood of what is now called … it this inscription:"To the memory of 2,162 officers and men of the Brigade of Guards who fell during the war with …
Survey of London
… Waterloo Road CHAPTER 4 - WATERLOO ROAD Cuper's Garden [See plates 6 and 7] The immediate approach to … been part of a famous pleasure ground, known as Cuper's (or Cupid's) Garden. The site was originally part of Lambeth … have been pulled down. Waterloo Station, the Union Jack Club (190709), and the offices at the corner of Stamford …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Cashio, or liberty of St. Alban's, county of Hertford; containing, with the hamlets of … the master now receives a salary of 20 per annum. Twenty men are provided with coats from Parslow's bequest, and there …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… Watford, Urban and Rural 139. WATFORD, Urban and Rural. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxviii. S.E. (b)xliv. N.W. (c)xliv. S.W.) … and re-set in the outer wall. ConditionGood. b(7). The Hit or Miss Inn, is a plastered timber building, probably of the … of the class-rooms is an oak chimney piece of late 16th or early 17th-century date, evidently brought from elsewhere; …