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Hace 5 días · Market gardens and nurseries covered 18 a. by 1895, and the area devoted to orchards grew from 10 a. before 1900 to 29 a. in 1915 and 40 a. in 1935, mostly apples and plums. Up to 12 a. of currants and berries were grown in the 1920s and 1930s.
Hace 3 días · Until then Girton was devoted mainly to arable farming, formerly on a triennial rotation. Its open fields were inclosed in 1808. Girton College, one of the first two colleges established for women at Cambridge, was installed in buildings in the south by the main road in 1873. (fn. 10) Traces of inclosed fields cultivated in the late Bronze Age ...
Hace 4 días · In the early Middle Ages Histon was one of the biggest villages in the county. Already populous in 1086, when 75 tenants were recorded, (fn. 24) it grew considerably before the 14th century to have 189 landholders in 1279 (fn. 25) and 103 taxpayers in 1327. (fn. 26) Numbers were evidently much reduced by the Black Death and remained at a low ...
Hace 5 días · Today’s company – Niagara Orchard & Vineyard Corp, is the amalgamation of three independent grower-shipper and crop input groups. The parent company, Niagara Grape, was established in 1926 by a group of local grape growers and maintained by various owners until purchased in 1988 by Arnie Lepp. In 2004 the company size increased ...
Hace 5 días · Thursday, 23 May 2024. The Squire and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Mrs Cherry Hopkins, OBE, LLB, Life Fellow at Girton College, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Mrs Hopkins was interviewed in the Squire Law Library between 13 September 2023 and 14 February 2024.
Hace 4 días · The stereotype of the “New Woman” who “was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, rode a bicycle, insisted on rational dress, and smoked in public” (Nelson ix) has been much discussed in a British context (Marks; Rubinstein; Wånggren, Gender, Technology, and the New Woman). 9 In the following section, I aim to complement the image of the British New Woman by shedding light on what one ...
Hace 2 días · The architect was Mr. Courtenay Theobald, who also designed a case for the organ. (fn. 45) In 1930 the college purchased the lease and freehold of Bedford House, a private school for boys, built by the Rev. J. H. Thorogood in 1875, a St. John's property adjoining 119 and 119A Walton St.
