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A History of the County of Stafford
… for the training of girls as domestic servants and boys as agricultural labourers. Under the direction of Laetitia Frances Selwyn, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1767 consisted of two carpenters, a nailer, and two labourers; one of the latter was an Irish immigrant. Most of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… branch of the National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers, and a Southall branch of the Platelayers' Union. 6 A West Drayton branch of the United Building Labourers' Union was formed in 1901. 7 The first socialist …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… As late as 1826 West Drayton was still a lightly populated agricultural parish with its village grouped compactly round … sordid air of an industrial village'. 61 The influx of labourers for the horticultural and brick-making industries … was extended southward and eastward from the village over agricultural land, to provide for a new rapid advance in …