As well as over 200 pages of registers, this CD includes records of the Churchwardens (1673-1707 and extracts to 1842), Overseers and their Accounts (extracts 1705-1836), Indentures (1675-1838), Vestry Book (1837-1885), and Constables (1818-1839). There is an article on the founder of the Church and Guild, Walter Cook, while further chapters cover a Record of a Manor Court at Knowle in 1278, a Certificate of Consecration of the Church, two medieval wills, a 1616 inventory, a roll of Knowle inhab More Info
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Dr Edward Long Fox (1761-1835) was born into a quaker family in Cornwall. He came to Bristol in 1785. He engaged in local politics, and led an inquiry into the Bristol Bridge riots. He pioneered a humane approach to the treatment of mentally ill people. He built an asylum at Brislington with innovative features and 'romantic' landscape gardens, and a therapeutic spa at Knightstone, Weston super ma...More Info
Before the NHS, dispensaries were the main source of non-residential medical care for poor people. Michael Whitfield describes the dispensaries in Bath from the early 19th century, and draws some comparisons with the national picture. included is an index of practitioners noted in the text.
Secret Pinner is an introduction to Pinner’s often little- known history, and covers a wider area than might be expected, taking in the modern areas of Hatch End, North Harrow, and Rayners Lane. Its chapters deal with topics as various as famous residents, early policing, roads and railways, and local suffragettes, and chart the area’s transformation from its medieval past as a purely agricult...More Info
Pinn 6 Pinner Local History Society has produced a number of monographs on Pinner. Among these are two outlining lives of notable Pinner Residents. This monograph, Pinn 6, is one and encompasses outlines of a number of Pinner Residents since 1670 who were of some fame or notoriety. They include the Heath Robinson family. The three brothers Thomas, Charles and William were prominent resid...More Info
Pinn 7 Pinner Local History Society has produced a number of monographs on Pinner. Among these are two outlining lives of notable Pinner Residents. This monograph, Pinn 7, is one and encompasses outlines of a number of Pinner Residents since 1580 who were of some fame or notoriety. All of them have been resident in Pinner at some time or other. Some were famous only in Pinner, big fish in...More Info