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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… which books belonged to Mary Silvester, an English laundry-maid, who for 9 or 10 years served in that quality in …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… to be sworn Laundress to the Queen, with power to choose laundry maids. [ Ent. Book 7, p. 10.] Aug. 1. Blackamore, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… payment of 1,000 l. for building a house for his Majesty's laundry, she giving security to employ it to that service. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… unfit it is to have them severed from the Sword, the very laundry, which the Chief Governors use, adjoining the said …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1449-51. 97 Many of Hinton's women worked in the laundry trade, with 19 laundresses in 1851, 34 in 1861, 71 in 1881, and 93 in 1891. 98 The Cambridge Steam Laundry Company, founded by 1883 by Josiah Chater and … and colleges in Cambridge c. 1892-1933. By 1904 the Swiss Laundry Company had been incorporated, occupying the former …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… from Chiswick, is at Gunnersbury Park Museum. 46 A laundry was opened by a French immigrant, Camille Simon, on … north side of Thames Road in 1905 and 1914. As Pier House Laundry it became one of the largest in London, managed by … on the Hammersmith boundary, included the Royal Chiswick Laundry, 51 which closed between 1964 and 1975. 52 The most …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… building designed by Maurice B. Adams. 6 Subjects included laundry work, carpentry, and plumbing in 1897, when there was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… grass and reeds to grow on the mud. In 1905 the Pier House laundry of 1860 began to expand north of Thames Road, as part … History Society, 51 and in the site of the Pier House laundry, which closed in 1973. 52 Notable residents not …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and shops serving middle-class needs, from hairdressing to laundry, livery and jobmastering, and a wider range of … estate by English Partnerships. The old Stretton Laundry site, further south on the main road, also attracted … 2) 1925. Ibid. 9 Apr. 1925, p. 2 (mentioning the Stretton Laundry cup); 5 Aug. 1926, p. 2; 14 and 28 (p. 2) Apr. 1927. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… House. It contained store-rooms for clothing and the laundry; in close connexion with it was the bath house. To …