Search
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This town, which, having suffered severely from fire in the year 1595, and again in 1724, is almost entirely … in the Tudor style, for supplying water in case of fire, erected at the expense of the late duke. The living is …
A History of the County of Essex
… Harvey's business never fully recovered from a disastrous fire in 1872. Between 1881 and 1888 the yard was occupied and …
A History of the County of Essex
… 78 PUBLIC SERVICES. An engine which may have been a parish fire engine attended a fire in 1774. 79 In 1904 the urban district council formed a fire brigade of eleven men, which at first stored its barrow, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… year 1727, after the destruction of an ancient mansion by fire, and completed in 1741, by Horatio, second Baron … 1590, when a considerable part of it was destroyed by a fire that continued burning for five days. In the …
A Dictionary of London
… and Greyfriars' Chronicle (Cam. Soc.), p.96. Burnt in the Fire and rebuilt. Removed to Giltspur Street in 1791. The … Hill, 1587 (Lond. I p.m. III. 1o8). Not rebuilt after the Fire (Maitland, 1775, 11.879). Site occupied by No.14 St. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… only red bricks but also tiles, quarries, white bricks, fire bricks, and land drainage pipes from fireclay. 85 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 44 Fear of air raids led to the provision of several 'fire boxes' containing hoses, etc., in 1916; the nearest fire engine was then at Wellington. 45 After the Second World War the county council provided a retained fire station at Oakengates. 46 It closed in 1980 when Telford …
Alumni Oxonienses
… and all other public buildings of the city after the great fire of London 1666; surveyor-general of all the royal works …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was closed c. 1934 and replaced by a laundry, destroyed by fire in 1940. The orphanage at the convent was closed in 1927 …