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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3. It now contains 16 rooms, eight for men, and eight for women, whose maintenance amounts to about 190 per annum. The … and the latter, though on the decline, employs many women and children. Near the town is a station of the … and Wesleyans; also almshouses, for six men and six women, founded in 1604, and endowed with land by Sir John …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and sold 9 c. 1800. 10 There was afterwards no cover for women selling butter, eggs, etc., 11 until 1848, when the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 26 In November 1797 the house contained 10 men, 14 women, and 20 children. There were also 40 children put out …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… aided, it is said, by the active exertions of the women. In the following year it was reconnoitred by Prince …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… gave 1000 to found a free school, and 1000 for clothing women at Christmas. The sum of 17, being the dividend on a …
A History of the County of Essex
… having a marked effect upon employment in the parish. Some women worked as outworkers for Colchester clothing factories, and by 1871 at least 40 women worked in the clothing industry; a similar number …
Old and New London
… founded, near his residence, an almshouse for six poor women." Mr. H. G. Davis, writing on the subject of Cromwell … hundred likenesses of some of the most remarkable men and women in English history, many of them executed by the first …
A History of the County of Stafford
… occupied by a poor woman, though a husband and wife or two women could share one; no inmate was to be under sixty. A …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the 1880s as a domestic industry increasingly left to women workers. In 1820 the making of gun and pistol locks was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Bible in the light of contemporary criticism. In the 1880s women were admitted, despite much opposition. In the 1890s …