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Survey of London
… photographs of a single room and some muddy sketches in W. J. Loftie's book on Kensington, which speaks also of a … tradesmen. Francis Tucker, tallow chandler, and Thomas Moss, tailor, under agreement with Nathaniel Curzon, later … another local builder, C. F. Kearley, bought the site and W. A. Rolfe produced designs for flats in 1896. Again there …
Survey of London
… probably for Somervell, are recorded here by the architect W.K. Shirley, Lord Ferrers. 64 At No. 14 Victoria Road Sir … built by John Mowlem and Company in 1880. 77 In 1881, W. S. Clarke noted in The Suburban Homes of London that … off-centre bay window, erected in 18467 by the builder E. W. Burgess and later refaced in red brick. 86 Then follows …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were established by 1963. 51 In 1960 a local firm, Robert Moss Ltd., makers of plastic mouldings, which had started in … Oxf. Univ. Arch., Chancellor's Ct. Wills T-V Hyp. 3/34; W. H. Turner, Oxf. City Rec. 1509-83, 431; V.C.H. Oxon. iv. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… almost 18,000 are arable, and the remainder chiefly peat-moss and moorland, affording tolerable pasturage for sheep. … in the district of Cunninghame, county of Ayr, 5 miles (N. W. by W.) from Saltcoats; containing 1885 inhabitants. This … ridges are large tracts of level ground, covered with moss, and interspersed with lakes, of which the largest, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ward, S. division of the county of Durham, 7 miles (N. W. by W.) from Darlington; containing 105 inhabitants. It stands in … 460 arable, and 156 woodland; the soil is loam, sand, a moss, and the scenery of rugged character. The chapel, a very …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… 20 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 100 acres of moss furze and heath in Killington called "Killington … another wood called Sparrowhawk Shaw (near Capplethwaite Moss) and thence to the gate ( i.e. road) leading towards …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… are in the burgh, 12 miles (N. N. E.) from Ayr, and 22 (S. W. by S.) from Glasgow. This place, which is of great … damp and tilly, and at length degenerates into a sterile moss. Several impediments depending upon the peculiar … light and sandy, and there are some extensive tracts of moss, of which considerable portions might be reclaimed; the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… a parish, in the county of Inverness, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Beauly; containing 2869 inhabitants. This … are obtained on the shore. The soil on the high grounds is moss, and near the Frith chiefly alluvial; it varies in other … on the Skiack. There are several extensive tracts of moss in the heights of the parish, where the inhabitants cut …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Collessie, district of Cupar, county of Fife, 5 miles (W.) from Cupar; containing 58 inhabitants. It is situated a … loamy earth which generally prevails: the proportion of moss is inconsiderable. The ordinary subsoil of the whole is … has an allowance of 20 as grass-money, and the like sum as moss-money, there being a want of moss in the parish. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the parishes require; patron and incumbent, the Rev. W. Burgess. The church, a very ancient structure, having … lies between the rivers Sark and Esk, and comprises Solway Moss, and a portion of the once debateable lands. … were defeated with great slaughter, took place on Solway Moss, in the parish; and in 1745 a strong party of the rebels …