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A History of the County of Shropshire
… and by 1903 classes were being held five nights a week and on Saturdays for teachers and pupilteachers. 70 Courses, … bad working conditions 91 and in 1910, since expansion on the cramped site 92 was impossible, the infant department … Wood Senior (Mixed) Council School, New Road, opened on a 3-a. site in 1933 to serve an area extending from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the town expanded, and in 1846 the Methodists noted that on reckoning Mondays the Oakengates pubs were frequently … World War. 59 Fairs, probably during the wakes, took place on the Green until the construction of the … In the early 19th century bulls were regularly baited on Sundays in Oakengates and before 1810 miners from …
The Environs of London
… of Waltham Holy-cross. It was seized by the crown on the suppression of religious houses 2, and, in 1546, was … and afterwards of Christopher Crow 28, Esq.) 1720. On the floor are the tombs of John, son of Sir Csar Child, … of Theophilus Salwey, and mother of Mary Cartwright, 1783. On the east wall of the north aisle is the monument of David …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The parish is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the … Rep. Com. Overseers of the Poor (1777), H.C. Reports from committees reprinted 1803, vol. ix. Poor Rate Returns, H.C. …
A History of the County of Essex
… 90 to 69 and some supporters withdrew their subscriptions on the ground that the school encouraged delinquency and … 6 when a building for the National school was erected on a site west of the present Links Road, just over the … 1872 it rose to 186. 11 In 1880 the school was taken over on lease by the school board, which enlarged it in 1889. 12 A …
A History of the County of Essex
… The soil is mainly London clay, with patches of gravel on the higher parts, and originally supported forest over … Thomas de Muscegros almost certainly held land on the border next to Chigwell, where a branch of his family … Mascall (1235) was associated with Marshalls, a tenement on the green near the end of Snakes Lane. Adjoining it was …
A History of the County of Essex
… for the usual petty offences, including encroachments on the waste, the unlicensed sale of ale, sheltering … ditches or repair roads. The court also regulated grazing on the common. As well as constables one or two bread- and … (1818), probably because the vestry was already appointing committees to deal with particular problems, such as the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the profits were taken to include the quitrents set on burgages at the town's foundation and still listed in … of 466 13 s. 4 d. for the fee farm, a calculation based on an annual payment of 5 marks which presumably included 1 … meetings were held quarterly. 43 From 1838 temporary sub-committees were sometimes appointed, and in 1877 a permanent …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its name derived from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western … 7 In 1885 Withy Leaze, a detached part of Shapwick parish on the north-west boundary, was added to Woolavington, but in … parish. 10 The southern part lies between 19 m. (62 ft.) on a broad band of Lower Lias clay and limestone and 61 m. …
A History of the County of York
… battle of Hatfield only James the Deacon remained to carry on the Roman tradition in the north but he has no known … north and south transepts with one, or perhaps two apses on their eastern sides, a central tower and an apse-ended … As a result, the prebendal houses decayed or were let to laymen; and the residentiaries occupied the Residence (now …