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A History of the County of Leicester
… Soc., 265, 274, 353, 356. See also L., General News Room, Mechanics' Institute, Shakesperean Assoc., University, … Blue Boar Lane. Meadow Gardens, sch., see L., Linwood sch. Mechanics' Institute, 274, 353. Medway St., sch., 337. …
Survey of London
… who in 1826 had helped in the formation of the first Mechanics' Institution in Ireland, and had subsequently been …
Survey of London
Survey of London
… circles. Dr. George Birkbeck had founded the London Mechanics' Institution (now Birkbeck College) in 1824. Two …
A History of the County of Chester
… a canon at the cathedral, was the most notable example. A mechanics' institute was formed in 1810 and reorganized in … 56 Evening classes in art and science were held at the mechanics' institution in St. John Street, while the …
A History of the County of Chester
… to the movement for working men's education. The Chester Mechanics' Institution was set up in 1835 in Goss Street. 7 … of E. G. Salisbury, a former M.P. for Chester, the Mechanics' Institution was taken over by the city council in … 2023; Parry's Dir. Chester (1840), 26; K. Peate, 'Chester Mechanics' Institution, 183575' (Liverpool Univ. diss. for …
A History of the County of Chester
… Museum Within a year of its foundation in 1835 the Chester Mechanics' Institution resolved to establish a museum of … ownership of the city council along with the rest of the Mechanics' Institution's assets in 1876. 4 The city … Museum The city council saw its acquisition of the Mechanics' Institution in 1876 as an opportunity to create a …
A History of the County of Chester
… laid out as an ornamental garden in 1859 by the Chester Mechanics' Institution, which had run a museum in the tower … 36970; 1922/3, 426, 554. 24th Ann. Report of Chester Mechanics' Institution (1859), 9; cf. above, Museums: Water Tower Museum. 29th Ann. Rep. Chester Mechanics' Inst. (1864), 6; V.C.H. Ches. i. 1457. Chester: …