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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… which letters are forwarded by a runner three times in the week. The ecclesiastical affairs are under the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 10 In 1899 the colliery was producing up to 4,000 tons a week, 11 and c. 1955 it employed 660 men underground, working …
A History of the County of Stafford
… foreign, and one from Rushall. Each inmate received 2 s. a week from corporation funds, a sum still paid in 1854. 96 By … publican or to work more than 10½ hours a day, six days a week. 51 A succession of Schemes from 1883 to 1909 diverted … the repair of Bloxwich church; pensions of at least 6 s. a week were to be paid to two poor persons resident in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… part in an annual procession to Lichfield in Whitsun week to make offerings at the cathedral. In 1357 the parishes …
A History of the County of Stafford
… that the post would pass through the town three times a week. 80 The Shrewsbury Machine between Shrewsbury and London …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was transferred to the Tuesday in August Bank Holiday week in 1898 and became solely a pleasure fair. 24 The fairs, … late 1880s there were eight works, producing 1,250 tons a week of rounds, squares, flats, and horse-shoe and … the South African War the town exported 20,000 brushes a week for the army. 85 By 1912 the number of firms had fallen, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… end of High Street, Bloxwich. Fees of 1 d. or 2 d. a week were charged, but part of the income from Parker's … 1 d. for infants. There was an additional fee of 2 d. a week for older girls and for boys who attended an extra class … clothed; the remaining 125 boys and 108 girls paid 1 d. a week. 23 In 1859 the school moved to a larger building in St. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Street in 1843. 10 Prisoners serving sentences of a week or less were being kept there in 1861, when it was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… two scavengers, who emptied the cesspools and about once a week cleaned the streets. The standard of housing was claimed …