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  • The kids were well brought up and attended St Benedict's School in nearby Alcester, before Anthony began working as a trainee manager at Woolworths.

    Archive 2004-12-05 Laban 2004

  • The kids were well brought up and attended St Benedict's School in nearby Alcester, before Anthony began working as a trainee manager at Woolworths.

    To Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor Laban 2004

  • Coventry has a pretty flourishing watchmaking trade, besides its staple one of ribbon-weaving; and indeed the whole county, villages included, is given up to manufacture: the places round Warwick and Coventry to a great extent share in the silk trade, while Alcester has a needle manufacture of its own, Atherstone a hat manufacture, and Amworth, which is partly in

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

  • Alcester and thereafter laid siege to Hereford, an attempt which events in Scotland forced him to abandon.

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • For this purpose he rented Coughton Hall, the seat of the Throckmortons, near Alcester, and arranged for a great "hunting match" upon Dunsmoor Heath, near Rugby, to which many

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Abbey of Alcester came into the hands of the Monastery.

    Evesham 1901

  • The main road runs straight on, and leads, through the village of Norton, to Alcester, Stratford,

    Evesham 1901

  • Broadway and Campden, abounding with beautiful houses, and the old town of Alcester, of which some views are given -- all these contain many objects of antiquarian and artistic interest, and can easily be reached from Evesham.

    Vanishing England 1892

  • Alcester by that strange sound, and knew that the terrible conflict had begun between the king and Parliament.

    English Villages 1892

  • Pagnel, and Buckingham to Alcester and Cirencester, across the Severn, and ending at St. David's.

    English Villages 1892

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