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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1854. Dame schools numbered two in 1807, three and a night school in 1818 and 1833; they taught c. 45 pupils in … but few over 10. Working boys were catered for by winter night schools. 91There were still two or three dame schools, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… gabled window in the north transept and the presence of a night stair at the south-west angle of the south transept … north transept, 77into which the nuns had inserted their night stair. The abbey continued to be used as a farmhouse …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1513-14 it presented hired men for gaming in alehouses at night and sleeping by day. 44It repeatedly demanded … 68The parish council, established in 1894, soon started a night soil collection. 69In the late 1970s it was spending c. …
Old and New London
… being equally well and favourably known, the opening night was a triumphant success, giving a favourable augury of … President of the Royal Academy, put up and spent the night on his first arrival in London from America. Here, too, … of refreshment and gambling, which was open nearly all night, and formed a scene of dissipation which, even at that …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the opposite hill, when Sir James Douglas, in the dead of night, attacked the English camp, and is said to have killed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Lady Betty Young, wife of Dr. Edward Young, author of the Night Thoughts, who was for many years rector, and who was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… lay evangelist holding open-air and indoor services every night 'in a distant and hitherto neglected part of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the fertility of the ground was maintained by the use of night soil. Milk, potatoes, and pigmeat were produced for …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of 212. 11 The incumbent of St. Peter's was running a night school for adults in 1863. 12 Another night school, established in 1869, met at the Holy Trinity …
A History of the County of Stafford
… for cleansing the courts, but the privies were emptied by night-soil men. The prevalence of typhus and smallpox was … of the sewerage and the satisfactory solution of the night soil difficulty'. 24 In 1890 the large-scale … the inhabitants of those places to reply by the return night post to the letters conveyed by day mail'. 1 The post …