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8th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… a new light set up to which men voluntarily give more. The coal ships make a voyage more in a year than they did before. …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… to their care. They also possessed the character of modern clubs. They were institutions in which members of the same …
A History of the County of Somerset
… lodging houses, shops, a milk factory, a gas works, and coal yards. By the 1870s the community supported a herbalist, … month including milk, butter, cheese, fruit, rabbits, coal, and beer. By 1900 some 200 trains a day used the spur … a stock of over £134 before 1891 to supply the poor with coal. In 1910 all the land had been sold and converted to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… prospects: from one eminence eleven counties may be seen. Coal of good quality is wrought, and there are large quarries … clay: there are quarries of sandstone and limestone, and coal exists. Abberton Hall, the manor-house, the seat of Mr. … to agriculture. A few pits on the hills yield an inferior coal, much of which is used in lime-works; formerly there …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… seamen: they are chiefly employed in the importation of coal and culm, and two of them trade regularly with Bristol. … tramroads, formed in connexion with some lime and coal works in the hamlet. These works, together with the … of St. Nicholas, near Cardiff. The parish abounds with coal and iron-ore, the working of which, though it has …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… The substratum is generally carboniferous limestone, and coal interspersed with trap; the limestone is quarried for … are extensive lime-works in the village of Chapel, but the coal, from the immediate vicinity of long-established mines, … clay of good quality is found in the neighbourhood. Coal-gas works have been established for lighting the towns …