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A History of the County of Essex
… recast and three new ones added, in memory of Wormingford men killed in the First World War. 92 The church plate …
A History of the County of Essex
… number of demesne ploughs increased from 3 to 4, and the men continued to hold 2 ploughs, suggesting a slight increase … Worm- ingford Hall. Estates were being acquired by wealthy men of London like the Mannocks, the Denhams, and the … the seasonal and limited nature of arable farming, young men walked to Mersea for work at haymaking time. 90 Low …
A History of the County of Essex
… hundred for which there are returns. 55 In 1641 c. 100 men signed the protestation. In 1643 seventy six signed the … 50 aircraft parking areas, and living quarters for 3,000 men. It was used mainly by the United States Air Force until … a Boot and Shoe Club, and a Lying-in Fund; some working men paid subscriptions to the Stoke and Melford Benefit Club …
A History of the County of Essex
… com- bined with six neighbouring parishes to provide three men to serve in the navy. 33 In the later 18th century … 1796 at a time of high prices: 20 payments were made to men with families, totalling 108 persons. The number of … and 1808. A roundsman system started in 1816, unemployed men being sent to work for different farmers for four days at …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… 500 yards N. of the church, were built in 1675 for six men and four women by John King, son of Henry King, Bishop of …
A History of the County of York
… music. It was usually sung by choirboys and professional men singers, forerunners of the post-Reformation choir. 68 … of lay clerks in the choir. The first of such singing-men seem to have appeared early in the 16th century. Holgate … were fewer than twenty, the chapter were to pay singing-men to take their place. In fact there were only ten vicars …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1805. 6 The early promoters of the resort were local men, especially members of the Bacon and Wicks families. 7 … Fund spent £7,800, much of it in helping small business men, especially lodging-house keepers, about whom there was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… excluding shellfish, were landed in 1914. 53 In 1887 93 men and 17 boys were employed in fishing, 54 but between 1900 … declined further, 56 and by 1951 it employed less than 10 men. 57 Mills. The mill furlong in Worthing's east field was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… set up the town's first fire brigade, consisting of 30 men. 37 By 1891 there were sub-stations in East and West …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Road near by, and in 1925 changed its name to the Working Men's Club and Institute. It survived in 1977. 51 The … was opened as a public house for the benefit of working men in 1872, providing reading, refreshment, and committee … 1883 there were two rowing clubs, one of them for working men, and a bicycle club, 11 and by the 1890s there were clubs …