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In some cities, such as the Victorian era London sewers or much of the old City of Toronto, the storm water system is combined with the sanitary sewer system.
On that Mississippi riverine system today, including that of other sheltered waterways, industrial barge trafficking in bulk raw materials such as coal, coke, timber, iron ore and other minerals is extremely common in the developed world using huge cargo barges that connect in groups and trains-of-barges in ways which allow cargo volumes and weights which would astonish pioneers of modern barge systems and methods in the Victorian era.
As was common in the Victorian era, women of her class were privately educated and rarely sent to college.
Category: Women of the Victorian era
During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).
Sir William Harcourt, a prominent Liberal politician in the Victorian era, said this about liberalism in 1872:
Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.
It was in the Victorian era that Boudica's fame took on legendary proportions as Queen Victoria was seen to be Boudica's " namesake.
By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.
Category: Victorian era
In the Victorian era it also became a centre for the production of clothing.
Its population grew with the arrival of the railways in the Victorian era and the advent of tourism.
Category: Women of the Victorian era
Fashions in crochet changed with the end of the Victorian era in the 1890s.
( One of the reasons formerly advanced for the non-completion of Babbage's engines had been that engineering methods were insufficiently developed in the Victorian era.
Category: Women of the Victorian era
Category: Women of the Victorian era
A calendar era indicates a span of many years which are numbered beginning at a specific reference date ( epoch ), which often marks the origin of a political state or cosmology, dynasty, ruler, the birth of a leader, or another significant historical or mythological event ; it is generally called after its focus accordingly as in Victorian era.
Category: Women of the Victorian era
Poor little birdie teased, by Victorian era illustrator Richard Doyle ( illustrator ) | Richard Doyle depicts the traditional view of an elf from later English folklore as a diminutive woodland humanoid.
Category: People of the Victorian era
In the Victorian era, the Elizabethan legend was adapted to the imperial ideology of the day, and in the mid-20th century, Elizabeth was a romantic symbol of the national resistance to foreign threat.
Although originally associated with adult feasting and drinking, since the Victorian era, Father Christmas has gradually merged with the pre-modern gift giver St Nicholas ( Dutch Sinterklaas, hence Santa Claus ) and associated folklore.
By the Victorian era Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was dismissed by most critics ( in fact the form's popularity as an established genre had already begun to erode with the success of the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott ).

Victorian and town
Dartmouth also has a pre-school in the centre of town, established for over 40 years and based in the old Victorian school rooms at South Ford Road.
An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Glaswegian architect William Young ( originally from the nearby town of Paisley ).
In Victorian times and later the town has spread westwards and northwards, and now forms a single urban centre with the more suburban area of St Leonards-on-Sea to the west.
Charles Addams was first inspired by his home town of Westfield, New Jersey, an area full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.
There is a hill overlooking the town called Cross Hill, which has a fort on it with some Victorian cannons and a pair of BL 5. 5 inch Mark I naval guns, that were originally fitted to HMS Hood ; the latter were used to repel a U-Boat German attack during World War II with surprisingly great success-the Germans did not approach the island again.
The film is a eulogy for American small town life in the Victorian era.
A Victorian street clock was installed in the center of town, allowing for the creation of a small pocket park in the center of the downtown.
The town centre and Strathblane Road have remaining Victorian shop / tenement buildings and a few Arts and crafts influenced commercial buildings.
The only child of Ron Barassi Snr, Ron was born in the central Victorian town of Castlemaine in 1936.
This culminated in 1990 when the closure of Pratt's-a department store, which had grown from a Victorian draper's shop, and had been operated since the 1940s by the John Lewis Partnership-coincided with the opening of a large Sainsbury's supermarket 1 km south of the town centre, replacing an old, smaller Sainbury's store opposite Streatham Hill railway station.
But during the Troubles, Cookstown suffered from several bomb and other attacks, robbing the town centre of most of its Victorian buildings including the sandstone façade of the Hibernian Bank as well as the Adair's former Italianate residence at Glenavon ( which had been converted to a hotel ).
Around the town there are various buildings from the Tudor, Georgian, Regency and Victorian eras.
With the Victorian fashion for seaside holidays, Looe had become a tourist town, with nearby Talland Bay being dubbed " the playground of Plymouth ".
The town is notable for several stately Victorian squares, perhaps most notably Boston Square, which enjoys fine views across the Wash to Boston in Lincolnshire.
The town boasted a Victorian pleasure pier, with fine attractions, including a pavilion and miniature steam railway running up and down it.
The principal shopping streets of the town are elegantly laid out as stone buildings, some with glazed canopies, evoking the Victorian and Edwardian eras of their construction and retaining a vibrant mixture of outlets including England's largest joke shop.
During Victorian times the town was a backwater, escaping large-scale development, and the town centre remains very much as it must have been in the mid-seventeenth century, when the houses were rebuilt after a great fire.
The Green's features include an old-fashioned penny candy and antiques store known to locals as the ' Red and White '; the town's original 19th century town hall, now an arts center ; the ' Old Tolland Jail ' museum ; the ' Tolland Inn ' bed and breakfast ; and the Hicks-Stearns Museum, a restored Victorian house.
The old Village Hall, built in 1873 and enlarged in 1885, is a two-story brick Victorian / Italianate town hall.
The town retains examples of Victorian architecture from its mid-19th century boom.
The Maryland Municipal League ’ s Website, “ The Association of Cities and Towns ”, notes that Centreville ’ s, “ istory is reflected in the diverse architecture seen along the streets of the town — elegant Victorian homes with their wrap-around porches, neo-classical public buildings, late-19th-century commercial rows, late-20th-century institutional and government structures, and all the variations and curiosities in between ”.< ref >" Centreville.
This town center consists of the typical brick buildings and Victorian architecture of the late nineteenth century, and it is surrounded by much of the town's population.
The city is noted for its architecture, particularly in the Victorian style, built at the height of its mill town prosperity.
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has noted that the town has " the most intact Victorian Streetscape in the state of Missouri.

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