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A History of the County of Durham
… Nest,' by the erection of a partition upon the main trimmer immediately at the back of the panelled balustrade. … transferred the pressure from the roof timbers to the trimmer, causing it to become distorted. To counteract this, … the staircase carefully strengthened and the broken trimmer of the top landing slung to the roof joists. Relieved …
Survey of London
… all possible despatch'. 20 The bricks were made by Joseph Trimmer of Brentford, some of them at Blackwall, on land …
Survey of London
… more than half (10,150) was spent on buying bricks. As Trimmer usually supplied stocks at the rate of 2 per 1,000, …
Survey of London
… walls. In November 1803 a contract was signed with Joseph Trimmer of Brentford to produce nine million bricks. 57 The …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and even royal patronage could be obtained, if, like Mrs. Trimmer in Brentford, 17 one went about it in the right way. … able to spell'. 92 Much later in the same century Mrs. Trimmer, that redoubtable Brentford educator, in her … originate in the London area but when, in 1786, Mrs. Sarah Trimmer took up Robert Raikes's Gloucestershire scheme for …
Survey of London
… number of workers in the trades of coachbuilder, painter, trimmer, smith, plater and springmaker being only 74 in 1841 …
Old and New London
… having little else to say, said that the lender was a trimmer. The chancellor instantly fired. 'A trimmer! Where is he? Let me see him. I have heard of that … And now the day of retribution had arrived. The trimmer was walking through Wapping, when he saw a well-known …
Survey of London
… the question of brick supply, and had approached William Trimmer, a brickmaker whose family had an extensive and … that it was not. In February 1800 the company gave Trimmer a contract to supply 20 million stock bricks from … from locally excavated clay. Their bricks were inferior to Trimmer's, and were used for the dock and lock walls. By …
Survey of London
… in late 1824, with brown stock bricks supplied by J. & J. Trimmer for 6,543. 812 The U-plan cooperage originally had …