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A History of the County of Essex
… workhouse in 1789. 8 In 1818 two small schools taught 60 children; 9 neither seems to have continued in 1833. By 1825 … when the senior children were transferred to St. Helena's Secondary school in Colchester. 16 It was granted Voluntary … Cttee. Educ. Poor, H.C. 224, p. 277 (1819), ix (1). Nat. Soc. file. Ibid.; Educ. Enq. Abstract, 290; Taylor, …
A History of the County of Essex
… which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in … There was an annual Whit Monday Fair beside the Crown with children's races, wrestling matches, and stalls selling …
A History of the County of Essex
… fuel, washing, mending, nursing, and burials. Some children were boarded out. Cloth was given to the poor, for … the workhouse. In 1776 the workhouse master was paid 20 s. a week for 13 inmates from which he was to provide food, … who went out to work. From 1778 he agreed to pay doctor's fees, except for smallpox and fractures. Numbers in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… c. 20 people by the minister of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion chapel in Fordham, 2 and another cottage was … met from the 1880s in the Forge Barn at the Queen's Head. In 1898 a corrugated-iron chapel was built on land … Whiteman, 51. Lamb. Pal. Libr., Terrick Papers 14. Nat. Soc. file. E.R.O., Q/CR 3/2/46. Ibid. Q/CR 3/1/314; Q/CR …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … 200, directing the interest to be applied in teaching children. In 1829, the remains of a Roman tessellated … schools for boys, girls, and infants, in which about 350 children are instructed, are supported principally by the …
A History of the County of York
… and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's flight from York after the battle of Hatfield only James … stating that disorderly behaviour, the bringing of young children into the minster, tobacco-chewing, and the wearing … [19]; Harrison, Med. College, 63. Brev. Ebor. i. (Sur. Soc. 71), 285-9, 369, 374. Stat. Cath. Ch. York, 36. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly … was described as select, and particularly suitable for children on account of its quietness, decorum, and safe … of Suss. 92; V.C.H. Suss. ii. 285; Jnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd ser. x. 287. See below, Econ. Hist. Dallaway & …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Portland Road, 29 with money bequeathed by Robert Humphrys's will dated 1860. Part of the land was sold c. 1922, and the … of the town with clothes, fuel, and medical and other aid. In 1974 £53 was distributed. William Potter, a Worthing … Bailey and Co., the Worthing grocers, 40 their widows and children, or old customers of the firm. He also left £1,000, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… when a parish was formed out of Broadwater and St. George's parishes. 83 The benefice was called a perpetual curacy … were two Sunday services and an afternoon service for the children, but the congregation had been reduced, partly by … In 1884 St. George's had two Sunday services and a monthly children's service, afternoon communion, and regular …
A History of the County of Sussex
… eastern edge of the former east field on John Winchester's allotment by 1838. 27 It was called Sea Mill Park farm by … poultry were also kept. 32 Market-gardening. 33 Worthing's climate and fertile brickearth soil helped the development … stated the following is based on Jnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd ser. x. 267-313; see also R. J. Battersby, 'Devel. …