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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… were formerly two large mills belonging to some iron-works; and at Buckler's Hard, another populous village in the … soil. The Grand Trunk canal passes close to the salt-works here. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in the malting by the application of water and heat in a COPPER. The liquid (known as wort) was drained off into a … 'boiling' whereby the wort was put into the then empty copper and boiled. Hops, either loose or in coarse CANVAS …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… contains about 2500 volumes, including some ancient works, formerly kept in the apartment over the church porch. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… principally of one street, which is lighted with gas from works erected in 1836. The houses are in general of brick, … the river Wear passes on the west. Smelting-works are said to have been carried on at a place now called … of conveyance for the produce of the Bedlington iron-works. At these works, which are among the oldest and most …
A History of the County of Essex
… (1847), 70 the Victoria Dock (1855), 71 and Henley's cable works (1859) 72 provided conditions more favourable to urban … the industrial village of Beckton grew up beside the great works of the Gas Light & Coke Co., opened in 1870. Here the …