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Norwich lays claims to being the first municipality to adopt the Public Libraries Act 1850 ( which allowed any municipal borough with a population of 100, 000 or more to introduce a halfpenny rate to establish public libraries — although not to buy books ), but theirs was the eleventh library to open, in 1857, being the eleventh in the country after Winchester, Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Kidderminster, Cambridge, Birkenhead and Sheffield.
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While the Landaff case underwent litigation to resolve the rival claims, Vermont ( then meeting in Norwich ) came to the aid of the college and granted it the township of Wheelock ( northwest of St. Johnsbury ) in 1785.
Norwich City library was established in 1608 ( six years after Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian Library, which was open to the " whole republic of the learned " and 145 years before the foundation of the British Museum ), and Chetham's Library in Manchester, which claims to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, opened in 1653.
A plaque on the Fye Bridge in Norwich, England claims to mark the site of a " cucking " stool, and that from 1562 – 1597 " strumpets " and common scolds suffered the punishment of dunking there.
It was quite possibly invented in Norwich, although London, Cardiff and Birmingham have all laid claims to its creation.
Norwich and being
Salisbury is one of only three English cathedrals to lack a ring of bells, the others being Norwich Cathedral and Ely Cathedral.
Both are medieval bells, the sixth being cast around 1538 by William Barker and the seventh by Brasyers of Norwich around 1513.
St. Benet's Abbey in Norfolk was the only abbey in England which escaped formal dissolution, its estates being transferred directly to the bishops of Norwich.
The North Denes Heliport is located to the north of the town and currently operated by CHC Helicopter but it is planned to close in 2011 with operations being moved to Norwich International Airport.
Norwich Park & Ride ( Sprowston ) being 12 mins away.
In the 17th century a soldier loyal to Oliver Cromwell ( described in a letter to Sheriff Tofts of Norwich as a ' godly trooper ') scraped away the faces of the apostles, such images being regarded as idolatrous by many of Cromwell's followers.
" In 1692, Uncas ' son, Sachem Oweneco, sold twenty-five miles to four men from Norwich and Stonington ( including Sam Mason, another son of Maj. Mason ), known as the " Five Mile Purchase " or " Five Mile Square " ( being five miles ( 8 km ) on each side ).
It was not a common surname, being limited to one family, but the family itself was relatively respected – members of the family from the 1400s on included an Under-Sheriff, a Knight Banneret, a barrister and a merchant in Norwich.
The movie's screenplay is currently being written by Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Rob Gibbons and Neil Gibbons-plus Peter Baynham-with the story taking place in Norwich, where North Norfolk Digital, Alan's employer, is taken over by a huge media conglomerate and renamed Shape.
" But it was then the unpopular side: the publisher is said to have lost money by the book ; and one of his early friends, Mrs Turner of Norwich, cut down a legacy she had left Porson to £ 30 on being told that he had written what was described to her as a book against Christianity.
Notable features of the UEA campus include Earlham Hall, childhood home of Elizabeth Fry which is where the Norwich Law School was originally based, however Earlham Hall is currently undergoing a major refurbishment and restoration with the Law School being located in the Blackdale building during this time.
He was born in Norwich, the seventh child of Thomas Martineau and Elizabeth Rankin, the sixth, his senior by almost three years, being his sister Harriet, the writer and pioneer sociologist.
City of Norwich School ( formerly Eaton ( City of Norwich ) School ) is possibly unique in being a state run comprehensive school which houses two fives courts.
Oneonta, being approximately twice the size of Norwich ( and having a small mini mall and many more options in the way of food, stores, and college nightlife ) is a major destination for citizens who don't wish to drive the slightly longer distance to Binghamton.
However, a series of head-on collisions resulted from authority to proceed being wrongly given or misunderstood by the train crew-the worst of which was the collision between Norwich and Brundall, Norfolk, in 1874.
There is little doubt that in compiling his book Blomefield had frequent recourse to the existing historical collections of Peter Le Neve, John Kirkpatrick of Norwich and Tanner, his own work being to some extent one of expansion and addition, although he did compile extensive collections of his own.
He hailed from Owu in Abeokuta, Ogun State was a student of Norwich Technical College, England when he saw the advertisement in the national daily that entries were being accepted for the design of a new National Flag.
He started his career at Norwich City, initially as a centre-half before being converted into a striker by manager Dave Stringer.
The station devotes extensive coverage to Norwich City, the county's only professional football team, with post-match phone-in Canary Call and fanzine show The Scrimmage being regarded as among the station's most popular programmes.
Bellamy began his footballing career as a nine-year-old at Bristol Rovers, and spent two years at the club before being brought into the youth system of Norwich City.
Among the towns served were Cambridge, Chelmsford, Colchester, Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, King's Lynn, Lowestoft, Norwich, Southend-on-Sea, and East Anglian seaside resorts such as Hunstanton ( whose prosperity was largely a result of the GER's line being built ) and Cromer.
The Great Eastern name has survived, being used both for the Great Eastern Main Line route between London and Norwich, and also for the First Great Eastern train operating company which served much of the old GER route between 1997 and 2004.
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* 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
One remnant of this era is that the name Dresden is still used in the Dresden School District, an interstate school district serving both Hanover and Norwich, Vermont — the first and one of the few inter-state school districts in the nation.
In 1471, Norwich, England, banned use of the plant in the brewing of ale ( beer was the name for fermented malt liquors bittered with hops ; only in recent times are the words often used as synonyms ), and not until 1524 were hops first grown in southeast England.
His opposition to the Reform Bill caused him to leave the Whigs and join the Tories, and he was elected, first for Cockermouth in 1831 and then in 1832 for Norwich, for which he sat until the dissolution of parliament in 1835.
The Adam and Eve in Norwich was first recorded in 1249, when it was an alehouse for the workers constructing nearby Norwich Cathedral.
According to John Julius Norwich, the traditional first doge of Venice, Paolo Lucio Anafesto, was actually Exarch Paul, and his successor, Marcello Tegalliano, Paul's magister militum ( General ; literally, " Master of Soldiers.
* 1701 – 1702: The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post becomes the first daily newspapers in England.
* August 6, 1819 – Norwich University is founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
* August 6 – Norwich University is founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
* March 22 – The first example of an anti-Semitic blood libel is recorded in England, in connection with the murder of William of Norwich.
Due to a lack of appreciation, competition venues, and military personnel, almost all military marching bands have disappeared from schools in the United States ; notable exceptions the Fightin ' Texas Aggie Band from Texas A & M University, the Highty-Tighties of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, and the Cadets of Norwich University Military College of Vermont, the oldest collegiate band in the United States and the nation's first private military academy.
Julian became well known throughout England as a spiritual authority: the English mystic ( and author of the first known autobiography written in England ) Margery Kempe mentions going to Norwich to speak with her.
Semi-erect, prickle-free blackberries were first developed at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, and subsequently by the USDA-ARS in Beltsville, Maryland.
The Greens came first in Norwich with 25 %, Oxford with 26 % and Brighton and Hove with 31 %, the latter a clear 6000 votes ahead of the Conservatives in second place, but despite making steady progress all over the country with its share of the vote substantially increasing compared to the 2004 European Parliament election, it failed to gain any extra MEPs.
In December 1973, long term manager Ted Bates stood down to be replaced by Lawrie McMenemy who was unable to prevent The Saints becoming the first victims of the new 3-down relegation system in 1974 when they were relegated, along with Manchester United and Norwich City.
On March 17, 2012, the Women's ice hockey team, after finishing the regular season with a record of 28-1-1, won its first NCAA Division III national championship, defeating the defending champion Norwich University 4-1.
The Romans first exploited the rich peat beds of the area for fuel, and in the Middle Ages the local monasteries began to excavate the peat lands as a turbary business, selling fuel to Norwich and Great Yarmouth.
In 1814 the merchants of Norwich first suggested a plan to improve the route between Norwich and the North Sea, as the shallowness of Breydon Water created difficulties for trading vessels, and there was organised theft of cargo during its trans-shipment at Great Yarmouth, for which 18 men were convicted of taking the goods and one of receiving it in 1820.
The East Norfolk Railway arrived in Wroxham between 1874 and 1876 and John Loynes started the first boat hire firm on the Broads at Wroxham, where he moved the business he had started in Norwich in 1878.
The Bishop of Norwich, as Abbot, arrives once a year, standing in the bow of a wherry and preaches at the annual service on the first Sunday of August.
The area that became Bozrah was first settled as part of the original " nine-miles-square " of Norwich as well as part of the Parish of West Farms.
In 1663, the first grant in the area was given in to Maj. John Mason, deputy governor of the Connecticut colony ; the next year, Mason accepted northwest of Norwich.
In the early 20th Century progress arrived to re-stitch the town economically with the outer world, first in 1906 in the form of a trolley line that traversed North Stonington on its way from Westerly to Norwich.
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