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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… arrived in London and is showing off at the Surrey music hall, and is creating considerable sensation. 5. Sunday. Went … trick to sell the remaining shares) the building (concert hall) is deeply mortgaged and that they are 29,000s in debt. … one) of which more anon. Went to a lecture at Old Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate Street by S.C. Hall (Humbug Hall as called …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… etc. In evening went to a concert at St James' Hall, at which almost all of the principal English artistes … Mr Albert Smith re-opened his exhibition at the Egyptian Hall. His new entertainment is entitled, 'From Mont Blanc to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… honoured by a visit from James I., who held a court at the Hall on the 21st of August, 1621, and again on the 19th of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and for supplying it with water. The town and county hall is a neat building of stone, with a campanile turret terminating in a cupola and dome; the hall is a spacious and well-proportioned apartment, of which … Assemblies are held in a suite of rooms in the town-hall, in which, also, is a public library, supported by …
A History of the County of Northampton
… manor in 1272, 12 the house was said to contain merely a hall, chamber, kitchen and barn in 1427. 13 It was still … redundant infants' classroom was converted into a dining hall. 42 In 1956 the school received a noticeably more … Wicken. 47 After closure the schoolroom became a village hall and the schoolhouse was sold to become a private house. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… thatched: one, south of Pond Green, has a 15thcentury hall with an original jettied cross wing on the east. The … green, also has between its service and parlour ends a hall range of c. 1500, given an upper floor when the parlour … One east of Cross Green still has a traditional hall plan, others have three bays in line. 55 Of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Sundial. ConditionFairly good. Secular b (3). Wicken Hall and barn, stand N.W. of the church. The House is of two … is a blocked doorway. Inside the building, the entrance hall has a moulded ceiling-beam and a pavement of Purbeck … the position of a former raised dais. The room E. of the hall is lined with early 17th-century panelling, divided into …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1837. The tithe due from the 411 a. of the Wicken Hall estate, sold with it to Dr. Dixon, was also in 1837 … £20 stipend, 86 which fell upon succeeding owners of the Hall farm, among them from 1910 the county council, into the … surplice fees. 6 That £20 continued to be received from Hall farm after 1835. 7 A grant by lot of £200 in 1748 from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… belonging to manorial estates. In 1772 the Wicken Hall estate, which then had only 57 a. of open-field land, … blocks of 818 a., included a 178-a. group of closes around Hall Farm in the parish's south-east corner, of which all but … in 18378. 41 In 1814 John Rayner's livestock sold from Hall farm had included, besides c. 65 cattle, 15 for milking …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… John Rayner still held the court at his home at Wicken Hall, but after his death in 1813 it was moved to the Maid's …