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A History of the County of Essex
… which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in … There was an annual Whit Monday Fair beside the Crown with children's races, wrestling matches, and stalls selling …
A History of the County of Essex
… fuel, washing, mending, nursing, and burials. Some children were boarded out. Cloth was given to the poor, for … the workhouse. In 1776 the workhouse master was paid 20 s. a week for 13 inmates from which he was to provide food, … who went out to work. From 1778 he agreed to pay doctor's fees, except for smallpox and fractures. Numbers in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … 200, directing the interest to be applied in teaching children. In 1829, the remains of a Roman tessellated … schools for boys, girls, and infants, in which about 350 children are instructed, are supported principally by the …
A History of the County of York
… and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's flight from York after the battle of Hatfield only James … liturgical documents surviving from the period only Egbert's Pontifical has any direct link with York but this comprises … stating that disorderly behaviour, the bringing of young children into the minster, tobacco-chewing, and the wearing …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly … 88 and of the town's popularity as a site for convalescent homes. In the Middle Ages and later Worthing was a small … was described as select, and particularly suitable for children on account of its quietness, decorum, and safe …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Portland Road, 29 with money bequeathed by Robert Humphrys's will dated 1860. Part of the land was sold c. 1922, and the … Pearson of Worthing established Pearson's Retreat Cottage Homes for poor, elderly inhabitants of Worthing at the east … Bailey and Co., the Worthing grocers, 40 their widows and children, or old customers of the firm. He also left £1,000, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… when a parish was formed out of Broadwater and St. George's parishes. 83 The benefice was called a perpetual curacy … were two Sunday services and an afternoon service for the children, but the congregation had been reduced, partly by … In 1884 St. George's had two Sunday services and a monthly children's service, afternoon communion, and regular …
A History of the County of Sussex
… eastern edge of the former east field on John Winchester's allotment by 1838. 27 It was called Sea Mill Park farm by … poultry were also kept. 32 Market-gardening. 33 Worthing's climate and fertile brickearth soil helped the development … were glass-houses there, 37 and in 1859 and 1865 Worthing's four nursery gardens produced flowers and hot-house grapes, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… first schools in Worthing were apparently for visitors' children, and by 1811 there were one academy and two … weekly payments. 7 A new schoolroom, classroom, and master's house were built in Richmond Road c. 1834, 8 and c. 1847 … among the earliest in England. 24 By 1818 each had c. 40 children, 25 both were National schools by 1825, 26 and one …
A History of the County of Sussex
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES Manor Court books of Worthing manor's court baron survive from 1544 to 1925. 91 The court's … Road in 1882, 50 becoming the Worthing hospital in 1904. A children's ward was added in 1889, and an operating theatre … out-patient psychiatric treatment. 60 A clinic for school children was set up by the corporation in 1910. A new …