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Stamford Literary & Scientific Institution (Robert W. Telephone Exchange (Frederick Baxter, caretaker), 27 Dodman, sec. ; 1\lliss Florence Britton, curator & Broad street librarian), St. Peter's hill Territorial Force Battalion (4th} Lincolnshire .Regiment, Stamford Mercury, see "Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford St. Peter's street Mercury,'' 62 High street. See advertisement Thomas Evelyn (Miss),ladies' school,2o & 28 St.Paul's st page 26 Thomas John Palmer, wine & spirit mer. 11 Broad st Stamford Municipal Charity Trustees (Charles Atter, Thrower Charles Henry, head master of the Endowed clerk), 9 Barn hill school, St. Peter's hill Stamford Permanent Benefit Building Society(John Wm. Tidd Robert, general draper, 31 High street Coulson, sec.), Oddfellows' hall, rg All Saints' street Tilley Elizabeth & Mary (Misses),drapers,g All Saints' st Stamford Public Library (W. R. H. Dunkley, librarian), Tillson Henry J. registrar of births, deaths & marriages,

High street 1 25 Broad street Stamford, Rutland & General Infirmary (The Marquess Tinkler Frances Ashby (Mrs. ),tchr.of music, 32 Broad st of Exeter, president; Thomas Porter Greenwood Tiptaft Ja.mes Herbert, corn merchant, New road L.R.C.P. & L.M.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng. & E. A. Hutton­ Town Hall (Thomas James Savage, keeper), St.Mary's hl AtteRborough M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.O.P.Lond. surgeons Traylen & Son, architects & surveyors, r6 Broad street (also acting house surgeons); V. G. Stapleton, sec.; Traylen Hen~ Francis A.R.I.B.A: diocesan surveyor for Miss F. Leah Morris, matron), Ryhall road Lincoln, r6 Broad street Stamford & Rutland News (G. H. Haynes, proprietor & Turner G. H. draper, 3 High street publisher; published tues.), 17 & r8 Maiden lane Turpin Harry, in~urance agent, 19 Austin street Stamford School (Rev. J. D. Day M.A.Oxon, head Vellam Herbert, butcher, Wharf road master; for assistant masters, see p. 537), 18 St. Wade J. & Son, china dealers 2, & fishmongers 3, Paul's street Cheyne lane Stamford Technical Instruction School (Harold Baldwin, Wade Sarah (Miss), wardrobe dealer, 5 St. Paul's street sec.), Broad street Waite Clara Jane (Mrs.), Fitzwilliam Arms P.H. I New Stamford Volunteer Fire Brigade (Alfd. Bacon, captain), town, St. Martin's New gate Walden Harry William, tinman, 9 St. George's street Stamford Water Works (Thomas Booth, manager & sec.), Walker Ro bert, tailor, 36b, Broad street Burghley Estate Office, 6 r High street, St. Martin's Wallace George William, Rising- Sun inn, 17 Broad st Stapleton & Son, solicitors & eommissioners, & secs. to Ward Agnes (Mrs.), Prince of Wales inn, 5 Castle street Starnford & Rutland General Infirmary & secs. to the Ward Jrffrey Thos. archirect & survyr. 8 Ironmonger st Steam Laundry Co. of Stamford 'Ltd. 3 St. Mary's pl Warr Alfred, hardware dealer, 39a, High street Stapleton Valentine George (firm, Stapleton & Son), Warren Henry, watch maker, 3 St. Mary's street solicitor & commissioner, steward of the manors of Watkin Charles Thomas, shopkpr. 2 Vine st. Northfields King's Cliffe, Yarwell, ~assington, Wood Newton, Watson Frederick Ayre, land agent, na, Maiden lane Barholm, Torpel & Apethorpe; clerk to the King's Weatherington Chas. Thos. inn, 4 St. John's st Cliffe schools & Law & Hutcheson Charity; county Wcstcott John Francis, station master, Midland & Lon- coroner for Stamford division of Lincoln & county of don & North Western (Joint) Railway station Rutland & solicitor to Stamford Tradesmen's Associa­ Wheatley George, motor garage so, & Crown ~ Wool­ tion, 3 St. Mary's place pack inn 51, Scotgate Star Tea Co. Limited, grocers, 12 High street Williamson, Cliff Ltd. brick mfrs. Little Casterton rd Starsmore & Oo. tobacconists, 14 St. Mary's hill Williamson F. W. & Co. Limited, coal merchants, :Mid· Starsmore A.rthur, miller, 21 & 22 St. Peter's street land Station yard Starsmore Herbert Thomas, agricultural seed merchant, Wilson William, plumber, 8 Scotgate & North street 14 St. Mary's hill Wing Henry & Co. land agents, 37 St. Peter's street Staton Harry Hamilton L.D.S.Eng. dental surgeon, 4 W oodbridge Stanley L. motor engineer, 6g Scotgate St. Mary's hill Woods Joseph Hamilton, cabinet maker, ro Ironmonger Staveley Herbert Samuel, customs & excise officer (2nd street; workshop, Broad street station), 16 All Saints' place Woodi Walter, boot maker, 15 Wharf road Steam Laundry Co. of Stamford Ltd. (Stapleton & Son, Woodward Alfred, chimney sweeper, 35 East street secs.; Mrs. Emily Smith, manageress),Empingham rd Woodward George, Beehive inn, :12 Water st.St.Martin's Steel Ernest, Dolphin inn, 6o East street 'Voolhouse J oseph H. butcher, 10 Red Lion square Steel John Henry, baker, 59 East street Woolston John, builder, 5 & 31 St. Peter's street Steel" Waiter Edwin, Welland Cottage inn, II Gas st Worsdale William, currier, 56 St. Leonard's street Steele Henry, cemetery keeper, Cemetery road Wright Herbert W. insurance supt. 5 St. George's sq Steeles Henry, butcher, so High street Wright Horace (Mrs.), servants' registry office, ro St. Steeles John Wi!liam, butcher, 10 High st. St. Martin's Peter's hill Stevenson John W. White Hart inn, r7 St. George's st Wri!:5ht Thomas Harry, pork butcher, see Boyden & Button & Co. carriers (A. Johnson,agt.),12 All Saints' st Wright Swift Dean, butcher, 9 & ro Maiden lane Wright William Henry, upholsterer, 26 Scotgate Teasdale Frederick, fruiterer, 6o Scotgate Wynn William, nurseryman, Queen's walk Teear Alfred, Greyhound inn, II St. Peter's street Young & Sons, grocers, 13 St. John's street • Young Edward, boot maker, r6 Brooke's court STAPLEFORD is a parish and small village, in the Lord Middleton is lord of the manor, irnpropriator of vale of the Witham, 5 miles south-s{)uth-east from Swin- the rectorial tithes and principal landowner. The soil derby station on the Nottingham and Lincoln branch of is sandy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, the Midland railway, 7 north-by-east from Newark and barley and beans. The area. is 2,720 acres of land and 12 south-west from Lincoln, in the division 5 of water; rateable value, £1,708; population in rgn of the county, parts of , lower division of was 191. Boothby Graffoe wapentake, petty sessional division of Sextons, Joseph and Thomas Pask. Lincoln (South), Newark union and county court dis- trict, rural deanery of Graffoe, archdeaconry and diocese L€tters throug-h Newark. The nearest money order & of Lincoln. The church of All Saints, erected upon t£-legraph office is at Bassingham the foundations of the earlier church, consists of a Flawford Farm adjoins the main road to Newark, and chancel and nave of brick erected in the 17th century, was at one time a parish in Notts and Lines; it and a beautiful Early English tower containing one anciently belonged to the Knights Templars, and is now bell: the church was restored in IQ03, and affords go the property of the exors. of Algernon J. F. Platt esq. sitting-s: in the churchyard is the base of an old cross. The register dates from 1ihe year rogs. The living is a By Local Government Board Order, 1$,503, March 24, vicarage, united to that of Carlton-le-Moorland, joint 1884, the Notts portion was amalgamated with Barnby­ net yearly value £ Iilo, with residence, in the gift of in-the-Willows, and the Lines part with Stapleford. Lord Middleton, and held since I88 by the Rev. Thomas Public School (mixed),_ erected in 1867, fol' 7 ~lementary William Dolphin, of Exeter College, Oxford, who is also 7-:J children; Mtss Rosa Knott, mistress rector of , and resides at Carlton-le-~oorland .. C<.:Irier.-Asher Harwood, to NPwark, wed Campbell Colin J.P. The Hall Ford John, farm foreman to Colin Ship man John, smallholder Campbell esq. J.P Sibey Joseph, smallholder COMMEHCIAL. tHarvev Laughton,farmr. Moor farm Stones Edward, blacksmith (letters Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over. tHunt Waiter, farmer through Norton Disney) tBurton W. & Son, farmers Pssk J. & T. timber merchants Thompson George, smallholder Campbell Colin J.P. farmer & tPriestley Robert, farmer tTibbits Sydney, farmer grazier, The Hall Priestley Robert, jun. farmer