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History Theses 1901-1970
… Methodism in the 19th and 20th centuries. J.W. Harris. Manchester M.A. 1961. The import of capital. R. Wilson. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Worming- ford failed to derive the economic benefit that a railway in the parish would have brought. By 1929 there were …
A History of the County of Essex
… From 1877 Chambers's horse-drawn omnibus ran between the railway station at Bures (Suff.) (opened in 1849) and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… S. division of Lancashire, 7 miles (W. by N.) from Manchester, on the road to Leigh and Wigan; containing 8337 … Benjamin Chaffer, who have large depots in Manchester and Liverpool: the stone obtained from them has been used in many … fossils of leaves and plants. The London and Brighton railway passes through the parish. The living is a rectory, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… epidemic had cost the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway £15,000; 63 the resort did not recover for several … 74 and facilitated by the electrification of the railway line in 1933 75; by 1938 493 people had season … made, mostly by staying visitors. Besides the Southern Railway many coach companies ran day excursions from London …
A History of the County of Sussex
… station, 79 and the second in 1845, shortly before the railway reached Worthing. 80 In 1791 81 and 1812 82 the … services to Portsmouth and various Sussex towns. 87 The railway line from Shoreham to Worthing was opened in 1845, … evening served the needs of commuters. 96 Worthing's first railway station, which survived in 1978, was a small flint …
A History of the County of Sussex
… much of it for northern towns such as Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, and Glasgow. 56 By 1893 a newly formed Fruit Growers Association had obtained a reduction in railway charges. 57 Special loading facilities for fruit were … 65 There were 82 fruit-growers by 1904, at whose instance railway charges had been reduced several times. There were …
A History of the County of Sussex
… two grandest contemporary building developments. Liverpool Terrace, north of Montague Street, was built … full height, for instance West Buildings, Bedford Row, Liverpool Terrace, and the west side of Montague Place, and … west end of the town was built up northwards as far as the railway, which had been opened in 1846. The largest area to …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1835. 72 New offices for the local board were built in Liverpool Road in 1887; the corporation met there until at … sewerage system had been extended to houses north of the railway in Broadwater and West Tarring. 8 In 1894 a pumping …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1977. A Spiritualist Healing Mission was recorded in Liverpool Road c. 1940, 77 and a Spiritual Healing Sanctuary …