Beaumont Quay and similar landing places along the Essex coast were chiefly used for the export of local agricultural produce to London.
Hamerton was a paper miller at Hook Mill in Newnham. He was a co-partner in the business with Robert Parker who was bankrupt at the time of Hamert
By the later 19th century Minehead’s growth put pressure on fuel supplies.
Robert Cottle was born in Taunton in 1788, a son of Moses Cottle.
Viewed from Churchill Way East, Mountbatten House in Basing View has been described as a large and elaborate chest of drawers, the drawers all open
Victorian Basingstoke was transformed by the coming of the railways and by a group of innovative entrepreneurs who made it an important manufacturi
‘Daneshill, 1 m. NW By Lutyens, 1903. Brick, Tudor and conventional.'[1]
Many villagers depended for small purchases on travelling salesmen or chapmen who sold personal goods such as gloves, lace, pins, stockings, handk
Stoney Stanton takes its name (twice) from the rock on which the village stands.
