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Wood Mill was a mill located by the River Tame in Stockport, Cheshire.Originally built in the early to mid 19th century and used as a bone mill.After 1848 the building was converted to a woollen mill and was rebuilt in 1864.
Harriet Woodley, later Pickard (1766–1844) was an English amateur artist.. Woodley was the daughter of politician William Woodley and his wife Ann. In 1788 she married Thomas Pickard (1755–1830) of Bloxworth House, Dorset; her sister Frances (1760–1823), meanwhile, married Henry Bankes of Kingston Lacy, where there is a group portrait by Johann Zoffany depicting the girls with their parents.
17th century (or earlier) Originally one house, partly rebuilt after a fire in the 19th century, and divided into three cottages. It is in stone, and has a roof partly of slate and partly of stone-slate. There are two storeys, and an H-shaped plan, consisting of a main range and cross-wings. The gables are coped, and most of the windows are ...
Maria Banks Riddell (née Woodley; 1772–1808) was a West Indies-born poet, anthologist, naturalist, editor and travel writer, who was resident in Scotland and Wales. Robert Burns paid tribute to her as "a votary of the Muses". [1] Riddel was born Maria Woodley, daughter of a Governor of the Leeward Islands. In 1791, she married her first ...
William Bankes was born 11 December in 1786 to Frances Woodley (1760–1823) and Henry Bankes, MP, of Kingston Lacy and Corfe Castle in Dorset. [3] Frances was the eldest daughter of William Woodley (MP for Great Bedwyn and Marlborough), a Caribbean sugar planter, Governor and Captain-General of the Leeward Islands (1766–1771 and 1791–1793), and his wife Frances Payne of St Kitts. [4]
Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh (née Woodley; July 1799 – January 24, 1846) was an early American murderer who was hanged for poisoning her husband. Background.
Woodley Lane (later Woodley Road) in Washington, D.C., was named after the Woodley Mansion. [12] The Woodley Society, founded at Maret in 1993, is an association of students, faculty, and alumni that studies the house's history. [1] In 2008, the group's leader, historian Allerton Kilborne, published a book about Woodley. [2]
1929 – Easter: Reading Aerodrome opens at Woodley. [36] 1932 27 July: The war memorial to men of Reading and Berkshire is unveiled at the entrance to Forbury Gardens. [37] Reading Crematorium is established in Caversham. [38] Tilehurst Water Tower is erected. 1933 – 29 March: The Miles Hawk aircraft first flies from Woodley Aerodrome.