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A History of the County of Middlesex
… railway encouraged horticultural specialization for the metropolitan market, brick manufacture became important on …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… about the same time. In 1840 West Drayton was added to the Metropolitan Police District, 52 and there was a resident …
A History of the County of Essex
… 201 By 1939 hardly any private schools survived. The Metropolitan Academy of Music. This academy originated in … were 1,000 pupils, and in 1906 the school was renamed the Metropolitan academy of music. Harding Bonner (d. 1906) was …
A History of the County of Essex
… was founded shortly before 1923, when the old tramway depot in Tunmarsh Lane, Plaistow, was converted into …
A History of the County of Essex
… on the Thames by Barking creek. It was built by the Metropolitan board of works in 1868, to drain the northern …
A History of the County of Essex
… of felons. 32 In 1840 West Ham became part of the Metropolitan police district. LOCAL GOVERNMENT 183686. 33 … had moved into the parish to escape control under the Metropolitan Building Act, 1844, 35 and the great Victoria … two recreation grounds, put in hand an electricity and tramway undertaking, and was planning public baths, council …
A History of the County of Essex
… but gradually widened. Among them was a branch of the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, … Dir. Essex (1906). Bk. of W. Ham, 170. Inf. from Y.M.C.A. Metropolitan Union. Bk. of W. Ham, 166; Fifty Years, 266. Inf. from Y.M.C.A. Metropolitan Union. Paragraph based on: inf. from Revd. J. …
A History of the County of Essex
… in the following year, the proceeds being given to the Metropolitan Association of Strict Baptist churches, to which …
A History of the County of Essex
… line south of the dock, locally known as the Silvertown tramway, was retained to serve the local factories, and a … terminal was opened at Stratford station. The North Metropolitan Tramways Co. opened a horse tramway from Aldgate … Region. For the tramways see: V. E. Burrows, Tramways in Metropolitan Essex; 'Rodinglea', Tramways of East London; …