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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… stands on the N. side of the Newmarket Road, N.E. of the railway bridge. The walls of the chancel and the E. wall of … for services for labourers building the Eastern Counties Railway. Subsequent restorations were in 1867, under the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a century later, when the Danes overran the eastern and midland counties, the bishop of Leicester removed his see, no …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1 .. Peculiar People .. .. 1 Out and Out Mission .. .. 1 Railway Mission .. .. 8 Christian Community .. .. 4 Disciples …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and a large iron-foundry. The Chesterfield canal, and the Midland railway, pass through the parish, and the latter has one of … wheat, barley, beans, &c. The Birmingham and Gloucester railway, which is carried over the Avon by a cast-iron bridge …
A History of the County of Warwick
… out from its neighbours as an industrial centre, for other Midland villages shared its geographical advantages. During … there are seem to point mostly to a local connexion in the Midland counties. 31 As we should expect, not all the 100 or … by that time, of course, given up the towns served by the railway. There were, however, several alternatives to this …
A History of the County of Warwick
… home-produced coal. The motor vehicle challenged the railway and canal. These and other factors affected the … in 1913, 41 and J. H. Tucker, now (1960) a subsidiary of Midland Electrical Manufacturing, with between 600 and 800 … nationally. The Census of Production of 1935 for the Midland areas (Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and …
A History of the County of Warwick
… uncommon. The distinction is found in many of the larger midland villages. 15 These distinctions and the names given … counts: first, the natural advantages were shared by other midland villages which did not grow to the size of Birmingham …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the Great Hockley Pool, the site of which is occupied by railway yards, and the Little Hockley Pool, which was in the … mills which follow. Some use has also been made of Court, Midland Ind. 105, 108-10, 113 and of articles by R. A. Pelham … New, 16. Hackwood, Handsworth Old and New, 15, 21. Court, Midland Ind. 112. V.C.H. Staffs. iv. 55. There was also a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… issued from 1804 until at least 1820, 24 and copies of the Midland Chronicle, printed in Birmingham, exist from its … not dissolved until 1852 87 when it was succeeded by the Midland Institute. 88 Lectures on non-scientific subjects … for Birm. (1913), 249-51; Langford, Birm. Life, i. 131-2. Midland Chron. 23 May 1812. W. Calcott, Thoughts Moral and …
A History of the County of Warwick
… which was ultimately successful - the Birmingham and Midland Institute - was founded in 1854. The kind of appeal … the starting point in the history of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. In 1852 Dickens on a further visit to … in Birmingham's cultural life. The Birmingham and Midland Institute marked the climax of the 'age of …