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  • Architecture
    • architectural features
      • architraves
      • brickwork
      • chimneys
      • doors
      • fences
      • fireplaces
      • gates
      • plasterwork
      • walls
      • windows
    • architectural styles
      • art deco
      • Edwardian architecture
      • Georgian architecture
      • Modernist architecture
      • Norman architecture
      • post-modernist architecture
      • Victorian architecture
    • building materials
      • bricks
      • concrete
      • flint
      • wood
    • commerical buildings
      • offices
      • shops
    • domestic buildings
      • cottages
      • Nissan huts
      • flats
      • houses
      • manor houses
      • pre-fabricated houses
      • tower blocks
    • industrial buildings
      • bottling plants
      • docks buildings
      • engineering sheds
      • factories
      • smithies
      • warehouses and stores
      • factories
      • mills
    • monuments, plaques and miscellaneous features
      • boundary markers
      • drinking fountains
      • listed buildings
      • memorials
      • monuments
      • ornamental fountains
      • plaques
      • urinals
      • statues
    • places of worship
      • churches
      • iron churches
      • mosques
      • synagogues
      • temples
    • public buildings
      • cinemas
        • film clubs
        • films
      • fire stations
      • halls
      • libraries
      • police stations
      • public baths
      • public houses
      • theatres
    • transport buildings
      • bus stations
      • railway buildings
      • underground stations
  • Arts
    • exhibitions
    • literature
      • novels
      • poetry
    • music
      • classical
      • jazz
      • pop
      • opera
      • reggae
      • rock and roll
      • world
    • Performing Arts
      • cinema
      • dance
      • theatre
    • Visual Arts
      • decorative arts
      • design
      • drawing
      • graphic arts
      • painting
      • photography
      • Sculpture
      • Textiles
  • Black and Asian History
  • Charities and Missions
    • alms
      • alms-houses
      • alms-women
    • charities
      • charitable bequests
      • charitable societies
      • charity boards
      • distributive charities
      • ecclesiastical charities
      • maternity charities
    • missions
      • school missions
      • seamen's missions
    • philanthropy
    • retreats
    • settlements
      • women's settlements
    • trusts
  • Communications, Media and Technologies
    • electronic communications
      • email
      • internet
    • postal services
      • letters
      • postage stamps
    • magazines
    • newspapers
      • local newspapers
      • national newspapers
      • regional newspapers
    • radio
      • radio programmes
      • radio sets
    • telegraphy
      • morse code
    • telephony
      • business telephone systems
      • landline telephones
      • mobile telephones
      • telephone exchanges
      • telephone receivers
    • television
      • television sets
  • Disasters
    • air raids
      • Blitz
      • V2 rockets
      • Zeppelin raids
    • crashes
    • explosions
    • Fires
    • floods
  • Education
    • Adult education
      • adult education services
      • evening classes
    • Education administration
      • attendance
      • school boards
      • school commissioners
      • school medical services
      • truancy
      • education committees
      • education legislation
    • Educational development
    • Education officials
      • clerks to the school boards
      • teachers
      • education officers
    • Elementary education
      • elementary schools
    • further education
      • colleges
      • technical colleges
      • technical institutes
    • higher education
      • polytechnics
      • universities
    • primary education
      • primary schools
    • School life
      • school leaving age
      • school meals
      • school newsletters
      • school reports
      • education weeks
    • Schools
      • acting schools
      • art schools
      • board schools
      • British schools
      • charity schools
      • convent schools
      • dame schools
      • single sex schools
      • Sunday schools
      • technical schools
      • trade schools
      • truants schools
      • voluntary schools
      • deaf and dumb schools
    • Secondary education
      • secondary schools
    • Special needs education
  • Everyday Life
    • celebrations
      • jubilees
      • new year's eve
    • festivals
      • Diwali
    • Holidays
      • hop picking
      • overseas travel
    • language and slang
      • playground rhymes
      • slang
    • Meeting places
      • community centres
      • halls
    • Music
      • classical
      • jazz
      • pop
      • opera
      • reggae
      • rock and roll
      • world
      • music venues
      • Bhangra
      • children's songs
      • music festivals
      • popular songs
      • types of music
    • Shopping
    • Social Clubs and Societies
      • boy's clubs
      • field clubs
      • girl's clubs
      • women's groups
      • working men's clubs
      • youth centres
      • youth clubs
    • Street trading
    • Weddings
  • Faiths and Religions
    • abbeys
    • abbots
    • archdeacons
    • church wardens
    • convents
    • deacons
    • Evangelists
    • friaries
    • Imans
    • iron churches
    • Islam
    • Jehovah's Witnesses
    • Judaism
    • Methodists
    • monasteries
    • monks
    • mosques
    • non-conformists
    • nuns
    • Pentecostalists
    • Presbyterianism
    • priests
    • Protestantism
    • Quakers
    • rabbis
    • Salvation army
    • sextons
    • synagogues
    • temples
    • Church administration
    • Parishes
    • Places of worship
    • Religions
    • Religious institutions
    • Religious officials
    • Religious organisations
    • Parishes
      • parish meetings
      • parish officers
      • parish vestries
  • Governance and Democracy
    • administrative areas
      • boroughs
      • hundreds
      • manors
      • parishes
    • administrative Boards
      • Board of Works
      • burial boards
      • conservation boards
      • education boards
      • highway boards
      • local boards
    • administrative officials
      • aldermen
      • alderwomen
      • commissioners
      • parish overseers
    • central government
    • committees
      • distress committees
      • housing committees
      • joint committees
    • elected Officials
      • councillors
      • elected mayor
      • Members of European Parliament
      • Members of Parliament
    • elections
      • European elections
      • local elections
      • mayoral elections
      • parliamentary elections
    • electoral boundaries
      • parish boundaries
      • parliamentary constituencies
      • wards
    • Finance and budgets
      • financial corruption
      • fraud
      • treasurers
    • Legislation
      • local legislation
      • national legislation
    • local government
      • council departments
      • local government officers
    • municipal offices
      • coat of arms
      • mayors
      • municipal officials
    • political organisations
      • anti-fascist organisations
      • anti-racist organisations
      • anti-war organisations
      • dissenting organisations
      • ratepayers associations
      • suffragettes
      • temperance organisations
    • political parties
      • communist parties
      • conservative parties
      • fascist parties
      • independent parties
      • liberal parties
      • progressive parties
      • radical parties
      • socialist parties
    • Regional government
      • county councils
      • London government
    • taxation
      • community charge
      • council tax
      • poll tax
      • tithes
      • tolls
  • Health and Welfare
    • clinics
    • disability
    • diseases
      • infectious diseases
    • dispensaries
    • epidemics
    • health administration
      • health officials
      • medical boards
      • medical officers
    • health professionals
      • general practitioners
      • health visitors
      • nurses
    • hospitals
      • children's hospitals
      • fever hospitals
      • infectious diseases hospitals
      • isolation hospitals
      • maternity hospitals
      • seamen's hospitals
      • women's hospitals
    • hygiene
      • baths
      • public baths
      • sanitation
      • toilets
    • maternity services
      • maternity clinics
      • midwives
    • poor relief
      • overseers of the poor
      • paupers badges
      • poor law
      • poor law unions
      • winter relief
      • workhouse trustees
      • workhouse unions
      • workhouses
    • voluntary social work
      • social work
    • Welfare
      • children's homes
      • children's welfare
      • elderly people
      • old people's homes
  • Housing
    • building industry
    • households
      • household goods
    • housing administration
      • housing committees
    • housing conditions
      • housing improvements
      • slum clearance
      • slum landlords
      • slums
    • housing estates
      • council estates
      • housing association estates
      • private housing estates
    • housing organisations
      • housing associations
      • housing co-operatives
    • housing types
  • Infrastructure and Utilities
    • bridges
      • iron bridges
      • swing bridges
    • docks and wharfs
      • dock terminals
      • dock yards
      • sufferance wharfs
      • wharfs
    • drainage
      • drainage ditches
    • electricity supplies
    • flood defences
      • canal locks
      • flood barriers
      • flood sluices
      • flood walls
      • river embankments
    • gas supplies
      • gas companies
      • gas plants
    • roads
      • by-passes
      • by-passes
      • level crossings
      • roman roads
      • toll gates
      • toll gates
      • toll roads
      • toll roads
      • tunnels
      • tunnels
      • turnpike trusts
      • turnpikes
      • turnpikes
      • viaducts
    • sewage
      • sanitary authorities
      • sewage disposal
      • sewage pumping stations
      • sewers
    • street lighting
      • electric street lights
      • gas street lights
      • lighting inspectors
    • waste disposal
    • water supplies
      • water companies
      • water pumping stations
      • water works
  • Land Use
    • agricultural buildings
      • barns
      • farm houses
      • livestock sheds
    • agricultural plants
      • cereal crops
      • reeds
      • root crops
      • watercress beds
      • willow growing
    • conservation
      • conservation boards
      • conservation groups
      • conservation plans
    • development plans
      • post-war development plans
    • farms
      • farm labourers
      • farmers
    • fields
      • field cultivation
      • field systems
      • pastures
    • fishing
      • fisheries
    • food production
    • forests
      • forest taxes
      • forest wardens
    • industrial development
      • business parks
      • industrial estates
    • land management
      • commons (land)
      • demesne lands
      • enclosures
      • estates (land)
      • reeves
    • land Ownership
      • land companies
    • livestock
      • cattle
      • chickens
      • pigs
      • sheep
    • market gardening
    • regeneration
    • town planning
  • Law and Order
    • courts
      • Baron's courts
      • court books
      • court rolls
      • court sessions
      • forest courts
      • leet courts
      • magistrates courts
    • crime prevention
      • neighbourhood watch schemes
      • watch houses
    • fire services
      • fire engines
      • fire pumps
      • fire stations
    • law and order officials
      • bailiffs
      • beadles
      • headboroughs
      • judges
      • magistrates
      • parish constables
      • recorders
    • law and order organisations and societies
    • legislation
      • local legislation
      • national legislation
    • Leisure and Entertainment
      • bingo
      • cafes and restaurants
        • cafes
        • fish and chip shops
        • pie and mash shops
        • restaurants
        • tea rooms
      • cinemas
        • film clubs
        • films
      • dancing
        • ballroom dancing
        • dance classes
        • dance halls
        • dance schools
        • discos
        • nightclubs
        • salsa dancing
      • fairs
        • pleasure fairs
      • fashions
        • clothes fashions
        • cosmetics
        • hair styles
        • jewellery
      • games
        • board games
        • children's games
        • playground and street games
      • libraries
      • museums
      • music
      • public houses
      • racing
        • dog racing
        • horse racing
      • theatres
      • toys
        • dolls
        • dolls houses
    • places of punishment
      • approved schools
      • forest gaols
      • gallows greens
      • gaols
      • police cells
      • prisons
    • police
      • police officers
      • police stations
    • poor man's lawyers
    • punishments
      • hanging
      • pillories
      • stocks
      • whipping posts
  • Leisure and Entertainment
    • bingo
    • cafes and restaurants
      • cafes
      • fish and chip shops
      • pie and mash shops
      • restaurants
      • tea rooms
    • cinemas
      • film clubs
      • films
    • dancing
      • ballroom dancing
      • dance classes
      • dance halls
      • dance schools
      • discos
      • nightclubs
      • salsa dancing
    • fairs
      • pleasure fairs
    • fashions
      • clothes fashions
      • cosmetics
      • hair styles
      • jewellery
    • games
      • board games
      • children's games
      • playground and street games
    • libraries
    • museums
    • music
    • public houses
    • racing
      • dog racing
      • horse racing
    • theatres
    • toys
      • dolls
      • dolls houses
  • Sport and Recreation
    • gardens
      • flower displays
      • flower shows
      • gardening
      • memorial gardens
    • open spaces
    • parks
    • recreation grounds
    • sports
      • badminton
      • boxing
      • canoeing
      • cricket
      • football
      • jet skiing
      • karate
      • kick boxing
      • kung fu
      • rugby
      • speedway racing
      • squash
      • stock car racing
      • swimming
      • table tennis
      • tennis
    • sports competitions
    • sports venues
  • Statistics
    • archives
    • births
      • birth rates
    • censuses
      • census of population
      • ecclesiastical census
    • deaths
      • burial boards
      • cemeteries
      • death rates
      • register of deaths
    • maps
      • map makers
    • migration
      • emigration
      • immigration
      • refugees
    • registers
      • electoral registers
      • marriage registers
      • parish registers
    • surveys
      • royal surveys
  • Topography
    • channels
    • climate
    • creeks
    • fauna
    • flood plains
    • flora
    • forests
      • forest taxes
      • forest wardens
    • geological processes
      • glaciation
    • geology
      • chalk
      • clay
      • gravels
    • islands
    • levels
    • marshes
    • meads
    • quarries and pits
    • rivers
      • river crossings
      • river locks
      • river sluices
    • soils
    • tides
      • tidal head
    • woods
  • Trade and Industry
    • animal feeds and animal products
      • animal feeds
      • fulling industries
      • leather
      • tanning
      • tanning industries
    • chemical industries
      • caustic soda
      • disinfectant and germicides
      • fertilizer manufacturing
      • lime burning
      • paint manufacturing
      • sulphuric acid (vitriol) production
      • super phosphate manufacturing
      • varnish production
    • construction industries
      • building firms
    • docks and river industries
      • docks companies
      • lighterage
      • lighterage companies
      • warehousing industries
    • electricity production
      • canal locks
      • electricity companies
      • electricity departments (councils)
      • electricity power stations
      • flood barriers
      • flood sluices
      • flood walls
      • river embankments
    • energy production
      • coke production
      • gas production
      • renewable energy production
    • engineering
      • boiler making
      • locomotive engineering
      • precision engineering
      • railway engineering
    • financial services
    • food and drink
      • baking industry
      • bottling industries
      • brewing industries
      • caramel manufacturing
      • confectionery manufacturing
      • distilling - spirits
      • food processing
      • jam making
      • meat processing
      • mineral water industries
      • pickling industries
      • refining - edible oils
      • sugar refining
    • industrial buildings
      • bottling plants
      • engineering sheds
      • factories
      • smithies
      • warehouses and stores
    • industrial development
      • business parks
      • industrial estates
    • leather trade
    • machinery and engines
      • pumping engines
      • steam engines
      • water powered engines
    • manufacturing
      • abrasives manufacturing
      • asbestos manufacturing
      • basket manufacturing
      • bicycle manufacturing
      • brick making
      • brush manufacturing
      • cable manufacturing
      • cement manufacturing
      • cigarette manufacturing
      • clock manufacturing
      • clothing manufacturing
      • dyes manufacturing
      • explosives manufacturing
      • furniture manufacturing
      • glass manufacturing
      • glue manufacturing
      • manufacturing companies
      • mat and matting manufacturing
      • matches manufacturing
      • motor vehicles manufacturing
      • packing case manufacturing
      • paper manufacturing
      • pharmaceuticals manufacturing
      • porcelain manufacturing
      • printing ink manufacturing
      • printing manufacturing
      • processing industries
      • productive industries
      • rubber manufacturing
      • sack and bag manufacturing
      • shipbuilding and ship repair industries
      • soap manufacturing
    • metallurgy
      • metal foil production
    • milling
      • corn and grain milling
      • timber milling
    • oils and lubricants
      • mineral oil refining
      • oil refining
    • spinning and weaving industries
      • jute spinning
      • silk weaving
    • tallow manufacturing
    • trade
      • shipping
      • shipping lines
      • trading companies
  • Wars
  • Transport
    • air transport
      • aeroplanes
      • airlines
      • airports
    • animal transport
      • coach and horses
      • horse drawn carts
      • horse riding
    • barges and Lighters
      • lighters
      • sailing ships
    • buses
      • bus depots
      • bus stations
      • omnibuses
      • trolley buses
    • canals
      • canal barges
      • canal locks
      • canal sluices
    • coaches
    • ferries
    • footpaths
      • public rights of way
    • railways
      • railway buildings
      • railway carriages
      • railway goods wagons
      • railway junctions
      • railway lines
      • railway locomotives
      • railway signal boxes
      • railway stations
      • railway tracks (permanent way)
      • rolling stock
    • rivers
      • river crossings
      • river locks
      • river sluices
    • roads
      • by-passes
      • by-passes
      • level crossings
      • roman roads
      • toll gates
      • toll gates
      • toll roads
      • toll roads
      • tunnels
      • tunnels
      • turnpike trusts
      • turnpikes
      • turnpikes
      • viaducts
    • sailing barges
    • ships
      • cargo ships
      • container ships
      • passenger liners
      • passenger terminals
      • steam ships
    • trams
    • underground railways
      • underground railway lines
      • underground stations
    • vehicle transport
      • bicycles
      • cars
      • lorries
  • Working Lives
    • employment legislation
    • health and safety
    • Hours of work
    • industrial disputes
      • lock outs
      • strikes
    • occupations
    • pay
    • trade unions
    • trades
    • working conditions