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Survey of London
… miles per hour. It is also said to have been used as a factory for Perkins and Bacon's 'steam guns,' prototypes of … and assisted Burgess and Edis. It is marked "Steam Gun Factory" on Davis's Map of St. Marylebone, 1834. For Sir …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The town is situated in a fertile valley; it has a willow-factory for bonnet frames, in which about 100 females are …
Survey of London
… main concern, however, was the building of a coach factory and stables along a frontage of some 150 feet on the … houses. Ultimately he built several houses as well as the factory and stables, work being completed in about 1836 to …
A Dictionary of London
… burnt. It was severely damaged in 1649 by an explosion of gunpowder, with the result that portions only of it retain …
A History of the County of Essex
… 4 worked in the clothing trade, and 3 in a silk factory. 3 In 1871 there were 79 agricultural labourers. The … and closed in 1996; in 1998 the building was a furniture factory. 5 A blacksmith's and farrier's business near …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… was found necessary to blast some parts of the tower with gunpowder; and one explosion not producing an immediate …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the Alder tree, used particularly for the manufacture of GUNPOWDER but, given that the only example in the Dictionary …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… HO 82/2). Res. 20 Dec. 1844 on app. as Clerk, Factory Office (T 13/2 p. 126). Redgrave, Samuel …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in Stanshope. 26 A well in the garden of the former cheese factory at Hopedale served the hamlet until the coming of a … George Hambleton in the 1860s and early 1870s. 70 A cheese factory was opened at Hopedale in 1878 by 20 local farmers … trading as Alstonfield Dairy Association. By 1916 the factory was run by Dovedale Dairy Association Ltd. and by …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1844 and 1851. 12 In 1881 William Shirley had a cheese factory at his farm at Rewlach, and his son Samuel was the … Dairies Association Ltd., which in 1912 had a cheese factory on the Warslow-Longnor road north-west of Rewlach. The factory was closed in 1958. 13 A furniture-making business …