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A History of the County of Middlesex
… for reform since 1860, 86 were then still managed in a way of which the commissioners disapproved. The income of all …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… engineering and similar industries have increased in the way characteristic of west Middlesex, though to a much less …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… other covers the old village site and stretches a little way north-east from it. The rest of the parish is covered … 29 The Richmond Road could also serve as an alternative way from London, meeting the Isleworth road at Twickenham and … its limited extent (about 5 a.), or perhaps because of the way in which this was overcome by landscape-gardening, the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of the later tenants of the house were eminent in some way. They included Louis Philippe, during his first exile as …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… after they left: this was still being applied in the same way in 1897. 38 By 1860 the number of boys in the school had …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… there are plenty of items listed that were made in this way, including TWIG BOTTLE, TWIGGEN BASKET, TWIGGEN CHAIR. … [two handed sawe] A SAW worked by two people in the same way as a WHIP SAW, but possibly smaller, since the 1582 Book …
Old and New London
… Hanged," give a picture of the grim cavalcade wending its way from Newgate to Tyburn, in 1727: "As clever Tom Clinch, … who would take things easily and let him have his own way. The person whom Lord Ferrers so appointed was none other … the two men-servants he had contrived to get out of the way on different pretexts, so that when Johnson arrived there …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… made by Mr. Clarke, the principal landed proprietor, by way of experiment, and was attended with complete success. … of liberal leases, the tenants are still doing much in the way of draining and otherwise improving the lands. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… A Roman road crosses both these mountains; and about half way up the former are the remains of Hard-Knot Castle, a …