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Old and New London
… for industrial purposes." Mr. Smiles, in his "Huguenots in London," has an interesting page on the old …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1950s. Pakistanis (after 1974 Bangladeshis), like the Huguenots and Jews earlier, moved into Bethnal Green from the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… than their numbers merited. They spread, as had the Huguenots, from Spitalfields and Whitechapel. In the late …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… garden or orchard. 71 To serve such gardens, to meet the Huguenots' demands for small plots with cut flowers and new …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… p. 94. Ibid. 1782-1813, p. 255. e.g. in 1775 when two Huguenots tried to avoid office as foreigners: vestry mins. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… It was opened by English nonconformists who allowed the Huguenots to use it outside regular service times. As the … presumably, at least one for Independents and two for Huguenots, those in St. John Street and others from 1721 to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… where they had spread from Spitalfields. 82 The Huguenots, who were mainly silkworkers, weavers, throwsters, … 85 sometimes disguised French ancestry. Descendants of Huguenots nonetheless were long associated with silkweaving … like Renvoize and Merceron prominent in local affairs, Huguenots left little trace on the topography. They were …