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Sir George intended to hold an inquiry to access ownership of the spoils, and sent two retainers ahead to secure the cargo. They had no warrant, so Sir Rhys's tenants refused to hand anything over.

In the street is Mrs Kate Foss wuth Kathleen Mary Foss, holding everyone's attention in the pram. The latter would marry Wilf Symes and become the village postmistress.

We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards.

We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards.

In 1260 a charter was granted to the Abbot of Sawley Abbey to hold a fair in Gisburn.

It dates from the 13th century and contains the Salisbury Chapel, built in 1618 to hold the tomb of Robert Cecil, first earl of Salisbury, at a cost of £460.

We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards.

However these plans are on hold while the future of the Queensgate Market is considered.

A few years later the king granted Bishop Jocelin the right to hold an annual fair, a tradition that continues to this day, although by 1830 it had been transformed into a great festival for the

The other sign is for the RAF Association, who hold their meetings there. The garage on the right was no longer in business when this research was being done.

The church of St Peter and St Paul was built at the end of the 14th century and can hold a huge congregation.

In July 1174 William knelt in homage before Henry, swearing to hold Scotland for him as his vassal. The 11th-century castle was extended by the Percy family after they bought it in 1309.

An 1821 Act of Parliament specified financial limits within which Worthing Town Commissioners could purchase land to erect a building to hold their meetings and provide and maintain a town clock.

More space was needed, and in 1914 a long building was added, on the side away from the course, to hold kitchens, dining-rooms and staff accommodation; no sooner had this been finished than it was

The aqueduct over the River Ribble was put on hold, and a cheaper alternative, a tramway between the north and south sections, was built. Here we see the tram bridge, which was built in 1803.

The fortress was built by William Fitz Osbern between 1067 and 1071, and was one of a chain of strongholds erected to hold down south-east Wales.

Industry, however, was about to take a hold of Chelmsford. A millwright called John Bewley had established an iron-foundry in New Street in 1808, on the site of some hop kilns.

Nevertheless, the camp holds up to about 11,000 visitors and at most times of the season there are more visitors at Butlin's than in the whole of the National Park.

It was designed to hold 1,120 people, out of a total population of 2,900.

the other hand, would probably still be the single-street market town it used to be, had not its meteoric development as a fashionable spa been kick-started when George III and the royal house- hold

His assistant holds a rasp which is used for paring down and cleaning the horse's hoof. Against the wall on the right is the grindstone for sharpening tools.

The large female figure in Carrara marble is seated on a bale of cotton, crowned with a laurel wreath and holding a trident in one hand, and a ship's propeller in the other.

Laid out in the style of the day, the cemetery had a lodge for the resident cemetery superintendent, a mortuary chapel for the coffins to rest in before the funeral, and two chapels for the holding

A decade later the population had risen to 329,096, and it was boasted that Glasgow was now the Second City of the Empire, a record it would hold for exactly a century.