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Old and New London
… the Monastery of La Charit, on the Loire, made their new home in the land of their adoption. "The Cluniacs," says Mr. … site. The Neckinger Roadat a short distance southward of Jacob's Island, Dockhead, and the other waterside places … and covering a considerable space of ground. It affords a home for a large number of poor persons, worn out with age, …
Old and New London
… adjacent Neighbourhood in Former TimesDockhead"Shad Thames"Jacob's Island. In a previous chapter of this volume we have … have a damp feel about them; and in the part known as Jacob's Island the overhanging houses, and the little wooden … English cities, towns, and fortresses, and returned home laden with great spoils. He was recalled to England by …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… Edwards family (tenants since 1901), who combined it with Home farm in Crowmarsh Gifford and bought the freehold in … resided and may have founded the chapel, running a home farm partly with tied estate workers or servi, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in the 1950s. 27 In the centre part and facing the green Home Farm is of brick and rubble and appears to be mainly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabited chiefly by journeymen silk-weavers, who work at home for the master-weavers in Spitalfields; but considerable …
Survey of London
… and 1869 the Governors of Bethlem built a convalescent home at Witley, designed by Smirke, for patients on the way …
The Environs of London
… who live three or four families in a house, and work at home at their looms and reels for the master weavers in … the principal persons interred in this ground are Moses Jacob, founder of the synagogue above-mentioned, who died …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and demolished partly in 1982 and, after featuring as a home for fallen women in the film 'The Missionary', finally … 1977 when the G.L.C. reiterated its policy of encouraging home ownership and transferring estates to the boroughs, 43 … two-storeyed cottages of c. 1840-60 81 where the typical home was a 4-roomed house with a yard full of boxes of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… side of Old Ford Road, no. 12 (after 1875 no. 21) became a home for reformed prostitutes, run by the Guardian Society … of vile dwellings. 48 Dickens made Bethnal Green the home of Nancy in Oliver Twist (1838). Nova Scotia Gardens was … 43-9; LRRO 1/2081; below, educ. (pub. schs., Bonner Rd. Home). P.R.O., LRRO 1/2081; below, prot. nonconf. (Congs.). …