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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the trumpet sound. Given the importance of the trumpet in military ceremonial, it is not surprising that a version was … order to encourage processes like dyeing and dressing at home. OED earliest date of use: 1483 Found described as BLUE … in one diary entry. White recorded that 'John Hale brings home a waggon-load of woollen-rags, which are to be strewed …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… cottages and a substantial residence called the Lawn, the home of J. Brynmar Jones in the 1890s when he was M.P. for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Cawdle, and Mill fields in Saxton. 99 Each manor had a home farm in 1086. 1 Ditton Camoys's had only two ploughteams … or fields south-east of Ditton Green. 3 Ditton Valence's home farm, with four teams in 1086, was diminished by grants … a. under corn in 1302 and c. 225 a. after 1350. 5 Saxton's home farm had three teams in 1086 and 300 a. of arable in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were imported to erect them. 74 The house was used as a convalescent home by Salisbury Infirmary from 1941. Since 1952 it has been a private nursing-home. 75 LESSER ESTATE. An estate in Heale consisting of one …
A History of the County of Essex
… so much space that by 1838 only six farms were left: the home farms of Woodford Hall, Ray House, and Monkhams, …
A History of the County of Essex
… was opened in 1913 for boys from the local Dr. Barnardo's Home. In 1946 the boys were transferred to other Woodford …
A History of the County of Essex
… hospital and the mansion was occupied in 1969 as a nurses' home. 74 Among houses at Woodford Green which no longer exist … about his experiences was Godfrey T. Vigne (180163) whose home, the Oaks in the High Road, was perhaps more widely …
A History of the County of Essex
… The house was used until 1900 as Mrs. Gladstone's convalescent home. 51 It was then demolished and the parish church … built in front of the site in 1902. 52 The chapel of the convalescent home survives as part of a house in Buckingham …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the expense of the nation, as a recompense for his great military and diplomatic services. The town is very pleasantly …
A History of the County of Sussex
… HO 129/ 86/2/7. Pioneers Still: Suss. Cong. Union and Home Missionary Soc. 1849-1949, 19. Kelly's Dir. Suss. (1887, …