Search
A History of the County of Oxford
… school; in 1906 it was detached from other Municipal charities to form the Alderman Johnson Educational … 8 boys and 8 girls were supported by Johnson's and Cocks's charities. 43 Union in the 1840s with the ailing grammar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 60 the free grammar school, and many of the endowed charities. The freedom also incurred burdens, and in 1557 it … overseers. 73 The corporation continued to contribute to a coal fund, financed by subscription. In 1800 the council agreed to store coal in the town hall or shambles cellars before it was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… complaints of maltreatment of tenants, meanness over charities, and petty reprisals such as banning the rector …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… meadow and pasture, 353 woodland, and 40 road and waste. Coal is obtainable, though not wrought; and there are …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston … confusion with a distribution of the Clayton and Smart charities. Valor Eccl.(Rec.Com.), iv.371; Hockaday Abs. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Dean Forest in order to check the felling of timber, coal-mining, and iron-works, which had become more extensive … Madgett, Woolaston Woodside, and near Cone Mill. A former coal-pit a short distance south of Whitewalls farm was then … in 1856, a threshing machine contractor, a haulier, a coal merchant, and a corn-dealer in 1876, and a mason in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The cottagers found employment in the woods, quarries, and coal mines of the Forest of Dean and Tidenham Chase, but the … year clothing and blanket clubs were established and a coal club was in existence. 99 A Memorial Hall was built in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… school and teacher's house became a private dwelling. CHARITIES FOR THE POOR Joan Jeanes (d. 1767) gave £50 for the … in 1859. In the later 19th century the income from those charities, totalling c. £10, was distributed in cash or … was distributed as a bonus to members of the Woolavington Charities Savings Club; the rest was given to widows. The …