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Old and New London
… in Tooley StreetDeath of Braidwood, the FiremanThe "Lion and Key"The Borough CompterThe "Ship and Shovel"Carter Lane Meeting HouseDr. Gill and Dr. RipponThe "Three Tailors of Tooley Street"The "Isle …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, a port, borough, market-town, parish, and county of itself, 55 miles (E. by S.) from Edinburgh, and 334 (N. by W.) from London; containing 8484 inhabitants. … from the British terms, Aber, the mouth of a river, and Wic, a town, is by Camden and other antiquaries …
Survey of London
… from mental disorders. Bethlem Hospital The Mayor and Commonalty of the City of London took the priory and hospital under their protection in 1346, 211 and in 1547, after the dissolution of religious houses, they …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Building and Social Conditions after 1945 Social and Cultural Activities BUILDING AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS AFTER 1945. The immediate problem after …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 BUILDING AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS FROM 1876 TO 1914. 60 The population … rose from 1,088 in the decade 1851-61 to 15,233 in 1871-81 and 21,546 in 1901-11, when it produced a net loss of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Stepney charities, 31 including Prisca Coburn's (1701) and Dame Sarah Pritchard's (1718), and shared in Fuller's, Bowry's, and Pemel's almshouses, 32 the last of which, at 'Dog Corner' …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… than 10 a. each, three with 11-20 a., two with 41-50 a., and one (Treadway, with 61 a.) with more than 50 a. When the demesne was divided and sold a few years later, only one 4-a. close was … by the occupier. 37 There were minor boundary changes and some division and recombination of fields both before and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… used only for the dissenting academy at Bishop's Hall 81 and the first public school was Parmiter's, built in St. John … c. 130 children. Sunday schools, which taught reading and sometimes writing, were associated with the spread of … 82 The Sunday School Union was founded in 1803 83 and Friar's Mount, allegedly the first Methodist Sunday …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1653 the former manor house, Bishop's or Bonner's Hall, and 93 a. surrounding it between the Hackney border and Old Ford Lane, 38 to Mary, widow of Gen. or Adm. Richard … she sold the estate to Robinson, a parliamentary major and former colleague of her husband. 40 Cleveland's …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Green List of Churches LIST OF CHURCHES Inf. about patrons and clergy is taken from Clergy List, Crockford, and Lond. Dioc. Year Bk. (various edns.); inf. about svces. … Tait 440 (for 1858), Mackeson's Guide (1866, 1871, 1899), and H. W. Harris and M. Bryant, The Churches and Lond. …