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A History of the County of Essex
… T/P 196/30. E.R.O., D/CC 53/1, 55/1; J. C. Thresh, Essex Water Supply, 68. …
A History of the County of Essex
… surnamed fuller being recorded in 1327, 92 and both the water mills in the parish being used for fulling cloth in the … In 1429 it was leased for 23 s. 6 d. a year. 98 Like other water mills on the Colne, it may have fulled cloth throughout … four men and one boy, and by 1886 it had both steam and water power. The Argent family sold the business in 1906 to …
A History of the County of Essex
… the top of Newbridge Hill was closed in 1896 because its water was unfit for drinking. In 1905 houses were chiefly … Hart, and there was a deep well at the brewery. 66 Mains water was supplied from the 1930s, and a sewage and waste water disposal works was constructed in the period 1957-60, …
Old and New London
… 3,000 examples of the highest interest in enamel, oil, and water-colour, chalk and pencil, by the leading miniaturists …
A History of the County of Stafford
… to about Bird End, and, in the south, by the upper end of Water Lane, Newton Road, and Heath Lane. Its original name … Greet mill, the next mill downstream, and the flow of water powering the two mills was controlled under a family … in 1772. 27 A few years later it was turned into a water-powered wireworks by Roger Holmes, Mary Abney's …
A History of the County of Stafford
… then consisted of a brick house, gardens, a windmill, a water-mill on the Tame, and arable, pasture, and meadow, all … 1583. 75 In 1556 it consisted of 2 cottages, 24 a., and a water-mill. 76 In 1583 John Skeffington sold the estate to … Turton's heirs; it was then said to comprise 52 a. and two water-mills. 77 Turton bought out Cowper's interest in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… reported in 1850 and ascribed to bad drainage and the poor water supply. 18 Widespread pig-keeping was noted in 1866 as … 24 In 1890 the large-scale replacement of privies with water-closets was begun. 25 A new sewage works was built at … 36 Of the springs which supplied West Bromwich with water before the arrival of a piped supply in the later 19th …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… that he should permit him to have common of fishing in the water of Burton. 11 Henry de Ednestow, and the clark his …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the city this ridge rises by gradual stages from the water's edge; in the northern part it is more abrupt, and … the original topographical features of its site. The water-line has been pushed out for a considerable distance by … Street and Crown Street. 3 The latter stream fed the chief water-mill of mediaeval Liverpool. At the inner or …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the 14th century, were removed at the Restoration, but water-colours of some of them, by O. Hudson, are preserved at …