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A History of the County of Essex
… it included 'halftime' pupils who worked in the local jute-mills. A dining room was provided in 1889. Attendance … infants, and in 1945 for mixed juniors and infants. Three Mills primary school, Abbey Lane. Three Mills board school was opened in 1895 as the successor to …
A History of the County of Essex
… was navigable and furnished power for a group of tidal mills which were already important in 1066, and during the … or near those western marshes. During the Middle Ages the mills produced mainly flour, much of which was no doubt sold … 1570. 3 From the 13th century St. Thomas's and Spilemans mills, north of Stratford High Street, were used for fulling. …
A History of the County of Essex
… p. 68. Agriculture, p. 74. Industries, p. 76. Ancient Mills, p. 89. Markets and Fairs, p. 93. Marshes and Sea … Stratford High Street and converge again at the Three Mills, below which the Lea, as Bow creek, flows down to the …
A History of the County of Essex
… sewer through West Ham, with a pumping station at Abbey Mills. The City of London, as the Port of London sanitary … from the small detached part of Wanstead near Temple Mills, and the matter was resolved by a boundary change. 48 … until 1898, when a power station was completed at Abbey Mills and a general supply started. The Abbey Mills station …
A History of the County of Essex
… had been held by Ranulph the priest, 11 a. meadow and two mills there. 2 This endowment was the nucleus of the manor of … scattered, included parcels in the marshes, near the Three Mills, and in Upton Lane, as well as at Plaistow. Some of the … West Ham included 'one hope called Warwall, near the Four Mills', 107 which may have been identical with the Hope and …
A History of the County of Essex
… changes the course was as follows. 2 North of Temple Mills a stream, formerly known as the Temple Mills stream or the Shire stream and later as Waterworks … two branches, which rejoined south of the street as Three Mills Wall river, passing through Three Mills to Bow Creek. …
A History of the County of Essex
… were Peter Lefebure (d. 1751), distiller at the Three Mills, 18 and Thomas Frye (171062), Bow chinamaker at … Complete Baronetage, v. 206. E. M. Gardner, The Three Mills, 78; E.R.O., T/P 48/3. See below, p. 93. D.N.B. See …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… church, which has a late medieval roof. The building of mills and alterations to straighten the river to create a … there were said to be 71 houses, including 40 farms, two mills, and two public houses, mainly of Keinton stone, … former common meadows between the church and King a Mill. MILLS A manorial mill paid 15s. in 1086. 13 The rector was …