The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon1866 |
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Addiscombe Addiscombe road Alfred Baker Bedford Beulah hill bricklayer Broad green Builder Butcher carpenter Charles Chas Cherry orchard Cherry orchard road Church st Church street Coombe Cottage Croydon grove Dagnall's park dealer Dingwall road Draper Dressmaker Duppas hill Edward Frederick gardener gentleman George street Gloucester road Greengrocer Grocer Handcroft road Henry High st High street James's road John John carpenter Joseph labourer lane Lansdowne road Laundress Left-hand side licensed Victualler lodge London road maker Mary merchant Miss Mitcham road North end Norwood new town Old town painter Parson's mead Plumber Portland road private residence railway Richard Right-hand side Robert Samuel School Selhurst road Selsdon road Shirley Shoemaker Smith South end Southbridge St James Sumner road Surrey Surrey street Sydenham road Tailor Tamworth road terrace Thomas Thornton heath Thos villas Waddon Waddon new road Wellesley road West Westow street Whitehorse road William Windmill road
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Page xxxiii - JOHNSON in a short essay on the Bourne of Croydon,* from which I quote. " All the rainfall upon the chalk either evaporates or sinks into the earth, — there is little or no surface drainage. In the summer months the rain which it receives is almost entirely evaporated; there is little or no overplus to feed its springs. But in the autumn and winter months the case is reversed ; the smaller portion of the rainfall .then evaporates ; the larger portion descends beneath it." " Whenever the rainfall...
Page xii - ... in the thousand, showing a saving of above '200 lives per annum. Excepting in extreme infancy, the average deaths at all ages have materially decreased ; and, even when the infant deaths are taken at the old rate, all those under twenty years of age have decreased by nearly 10 per cent. Taking the deaths from fever and all zymotic diseases alone, the decrease is respectively from 6'1 per cent, to 3'1 per cent., and from 22'5 per cent, to 17'2 per cent., taking from the year 1845, and including...
Page xli - The general business of the London City Mission shall be conducted by a Committee, consisting of an equal number of members of the Established Church and of Dissenters ; and the Examiners of...
Page xxxii - For the torrent that the vulgar affirm to rise here sometimes, and to presage dearth and pestilence, it seems hardly worth so much as the mentioning, though perhaps it may have something of truth in it.
Page xliii - The affection was on their part cordially and with the most tender veneration reciprocated. The various associations by which the church of Christ maintains an aggressive warfare with Satan and the world all claimed and had a portion of his regard. Schools, the society for visiting and relieving the sick poor at their own habitations, the Christian Instruction Society, the London City Mission Society, Foreign Missions, — in all these he took a lively interest, though the demonstration of it was...
Page xxxiii - ... Merstham hills usually percolates through the thick beds of porous gravel and sand upon which the town of Croydon is built, and thus finds its way by slow degrees and through various springs into the Wandle When, however, these beds of sand and gravel, after a very rainy season, are so saturated with this water that they can take no more, that which they cannot receive overflows the usual subterranean channel, and appears on the surface : : the subterranean watercourse is choked and filled up...
Page 303 - The hours of instruction were from 7 to 9 in the morning and from 3 to 5 in the afternoon. The Hawaiian language began to be reduced to writing, and January 7, 1822, printing commenced.
Page xiii - Byrhtric and yElfwy, made anno 960," a witness to which was "^Elffie, the priest of Croydon." The present church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and regarded as one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture in the county...
Page xxiii - ... a commercial or middle school, suited to the educational requirements of the sons of respectable tradesmen, professional men, and gentlemen of humble means ; and the other a poor school, of the class now ordinarily established by the National Society, and suited to the sons of the working classes.
Page xxii - Canterbury, for the maintenance of " not less than thirty brethren and sisters, and so many more under forty in all as the revenues may bear...