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Acorn Commercial Hotel, Birmingham
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Advert for Old Bush Hotel, Dudley
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Advert for Regent Hotel, Leamington
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Advert for Stanley’s Family and Commercial Hotel
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
Advert for The White Hart Hotel, Birmingham
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
Advert for Woolpack Hotel, Family and Commercial Inn, Warwick
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
Advertisement: Charles Radenhurst, New Royal Hotel, New Street, Birmingham
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Advertisement: Opening of Hughes’ s Great Mammoth Equestrian Establishment, Shrewsbury
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Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Dudley Cheese Fair
DUDLEY CHEESE FAIR. WHEREAS great Complaints have arisen from exposing of Cheese to Sale, and weighing the… read more »
Arundel Brush Works, Sheffield
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Bank of Deposit, London
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Bank of London and National Provincial Insurance Association
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Bland’s Brunswick Hotel, Sheffield
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Commercial Hotel, Sheffield
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Davy Brothers, Engineers and Millwrights, Park Iron Works, Sheffield
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
Dingley’s Commercial Hotel, Moor Street, Birmingham
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English Hotel Guide
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Family, Commercial and Private Boarding House, London
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Frank Clayton, King’s Arms Hotel, Sheffield
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H.H. Giles, Saracen’s Head Hotel and Commercial Tavern, Bristol
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Knapp’s Commercial Boarding House, Birmingham
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L. Baldwin, Warwick Arms Hotel, Warwick
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Leamington Spa Post-Office and Temperance Commercial Hotel
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Lichfield Theatre
Lichfield’s Theatre was opened in Bore Street in 1790 and designed by James Miller. The playhouse was… read more »
Mabbatt’s Commercial Boarding House, Coventry
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Mabbatt’s Commercial Boarding House, Coventry
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Maypole Commercial Hotel and Posting House, Nottingham
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
Procter’s Swan Hotel, Bristol
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Russian Military Visitors
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Samuel Johnson’s Birthplace
Michael Johnson’s Bookselling premises on the corner of Market and Breadmarket Streets. Image from: T G Lomax,… read more »
Sarah Woodhead, King’s Head Hotel, Sheffield
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T.S. & R.M. Morris, Black Swan Hotel, Sheffield
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
The Crown Hotel, Worcester
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
The George Commercial and Family Hotel, Hull
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Thomas Foreman, Swan Commercial & Family Hotel, Birmingham
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