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  Adherents.com: By Location
Also sometimes known at first as the 'Plumstead Peculiars', the sect was founded in 1838 by William Bridges.
A tenth part of this tithe went to the headquarters at Albury and the rest was used for the upkeep and growth of the movement.
Soon there were seven churches in London besides others in many of the main provincial towns and the Irvingites spread overseas, particularly to Germany and the United States.
www.adherents.com /adhloc/Wh_340.html   (3477 words)

  
 Dancing Assemblies of Philadelphia
At Philadelphia, as at London, Bath, Spa, etc., there are spaces where the young people dance, and others where those to whom that sort of amusement does not suit, play different games of cards; but at Philadelphia only games or commerce are allowed.
A manager, or master of ceremonies presides at these methodical amusements: He presents to the dancers folded billets which each contain a number; thus it is fate which decides the partner which one is to have for the whole evening.
It had been built and opened shortly before the Revolution, and superseded the old London Coffee House, as a principal place of resort and was the scene of many dinners, receptions and dances.
www.englishcountrydancing.org /assemblies.html   (3218 words)

  
 July 30 Birthdays in History
July 30, 1958 Daley Thompson, born in London, Decathalete, Olympics gold 1980, 1984
July 30, 1958 Kate Bush, born in Plumstead, England, singer and songwriter, Wild Things
July 30, 1909 Cyril Northcote Parkinson, England, historian, Pursuit of Progress
www.brainyhistory.com /daysbirth/birth_july_30.html   (1363 words)

  
 URBAN MYTHS - COLLECTING WALKERS CRISP PACKETS AND RELATED HOAXES (CASH FOR TRASH HOAXES)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In October 2001, police officers in Plumstead, London collected on behalf of a boy suffering from leukaemia.
University of Central England, Birmingham: staff member from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences: bottle tops "for charity" - an (unidentified) plastics company would buy a special wheelchair if a young girl with cerebral palsy collected twice her body weight (not given) in plastic bottle tops.
The veracity of the tale has never been established (possibly it was a fiction intended to encourage people to use the postal service).
www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk /humor-site/walkers-hoax.htm   (8421 words)

  
 Harvard University Press/Author Index/P
Pestana, C. The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661
Plumstead, A. The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII, 1838-1842
Plumstead, A. The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XI, 1848-1851
www.hup.harvard.edu /books/p.html   (1885 words)

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