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Marylebone, London, England Marianne Skerrett (20 June 1793 – 29 July 1887) was a British courtier. She was a Dresser ( lady's maid ) to Queen Victoria between 1837 and 1862.
J. Lyons and Co., Greenford was a major food production factory located in Greenford, west London.Developed post World War I by J. Lyons and Co., it covered 63 acres (25 ha) at its height, and produced tea, coffee, grocery products and Lyons Maid ice cream.
An extra-statutory concession (or ESC) is a concept under United Kingdom tax law whereby HM Revenue and Customs grants certain concessions to taxpayers to mitigate their tax liabilities even though the relevant allowances would not strictly be allowed under the terms of the tax legislation.
A shire levy was a means of military recruitment in medieval England and Scotland.As opposed to a levy of noble families, a shire levy was effected within a geographical administrative area (a shire), entailing the mobilisation of able-bodied men between the ages of 16 and 60 for military duty under command of their Sheriff.
England in 1086 showing hundreds, wapentakes and wards. Before the Conquest, the largest and most important unit of local government was the shire. [61] The shire system covered all of England except the far north. A shire was governed by the sheriff and the shire court.
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The Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which entitles all people resident in England who are either disabled or over the age of 60 to free travel on local buses at off-peak times anywhere within England (transport being a devolved matter and therefore within the purview of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly ...
66 Old Church Street, also known as Levy House, is a house on Old Church Street in Chelsea, London. It was designed by Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry between 1935 and 1936 for the politician and playwright Benn Levy. Levy House is part of a joint development with Cohen House. It was listed at Grade II on the National Heritage List for England ...