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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Herts. [Marylebone Lib., deeds 176/410] Balley, William, Spitalfields, London, cm and broker (17811816). Recorded at … [D; Essex RO, D/DHt T337/5] Barritt, James, 5 Fashion St, Spitalfields, London, cm and u (1839). [D] Barritt, Samuel, 5 Fashion St, Spitalfields, London, carver and gilder, looking-glass and …
Old and New London
… William Allen was the son of a Quaker silk manufacturer in Spitalfields. He became chemical lecturer at Guy's Hospital, … The principal works of his own design are Christ Church, Spitalfields, St. Anne's, Limehouse, and St. George's, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… silk-weavers, who work at home for the master-weavers in Spitalfields; but considerable improvements have been made, …
The Environs of London
… of the suburbs of the metropolis, and reaches almost to Spitalfields. It is bounded on the north by Hackney; on the … Leonard's, Shoreditch; and on the south by Christ-church, Spitalfields, and Mile End New Town, a hamlet of Stepney. It … at home at their looms and reels for the master weavers in Spitalfields. In St. John-street is an extensive cotton …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… railway land on the southern borders of Bethnal Green and Spitalfields, where 116 houses and flats, designed by Feilden … Trust and three other housing associations, Toynbee, Spitalfields, and Newlon. Housing associations assumed an … activity by the National Front led to the formation of the Spitalfields Community and the Spitalfields Bengali action …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Poor Law Commissioner, commented on the distress of the Spitalfields weavers, most of whom lived in Bethnal Green, … and 'disgusting'. The older districts bordering Spitalfields contained paved streets and larger houses but …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… at an early age. In 1891 only Whitechapel and Spitalfields had more women married under 25 68 and the … from Cornishmen who settled in the Borough and then in Spitalfields and on his mother's from Norfolk farm labourers … numbers merited. They spread, as had the Huguenots, from Spitalfields and Whitechapel. In the late 1880s the area of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and 1992, continued to provide pensions and annuities. 62 Spitalfields almshouses, 63 adjoining the early Parmiter's … six old weavers and six weavers' widows of Christ Church, Spitalfields, and Bethnal Green parishes, with preference for … and other needs of unemployed mechanics and weavers in Spitalfields. In 1843 Chancery decreed that Miss Vaughan's …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of 1803. 39 By c. 1549 Brick Lane led northward from Spitalfields to meet 'the way . . . from Bishop's Hall to … causeways 'in great decay'. 58 In 1696 it petitioned that Spitalfields, being small but populous, should contribute … householders. 63 In 1772 it opposed an attempt by Spitalfields to obtain an Act to pave and clean streets in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and Collingwood Street ran northward. William Green, a Spitalfields builder, and John Reynolds and John Dible, both …