• Railways in Great Britain have a spotted history with heraldry. Though there are some examples of railway companies acquiring legitimate grants of arms...
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  • the Kingdom of Scotland, 1603-1649 Arms of Gwynedd (Principality of Wales), 1240-1282 Armorial of British universities Armorial of schools in the United...
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    Birstall Light Railway) for permission to utilise the coat of arms of the GCR. A new design incorporating the same armorial components, updated in the modern...
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    complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1798. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and...
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    of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain...
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    Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California...
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    and Barnsley and Great Central Railways Joint Committee to Construct Railways in West Riding of county of York; Abandonment of Railway No. 5 Authorized...
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  • and poor housing until about the middle of the 19th century. At the time of the formation of Great Britain in 1707, England and Scotland had similar class-based...
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    Coast Railway 3 Completion and Maturity. Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-1389-1. White, H.P. (1961). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: II. Southern...
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  • the figures for 1921: In 1948 the Great Western Railway was nationalised, in common with other main line railways in Great Britain. For some years the mineral...
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  • Kingdom general election Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles. "Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (Volume 1)". Edinburgh : T.C. & E.C. Jack...
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    numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the...
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    to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and its Dependencies, and also the Ensigns, Armorial Flags, and Banners thereof"...
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    Britain on visits abroad. His tours of North America in 1860 and of the Indian subcontinent in 1875 proved popular successes. Despite the approval of...
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  • p. 1277. Robson, Thomas, The British Herald, or Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume I, Turner &...
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    Packet Company. In 1923 the railways of Great Britain were "grouped" under the Railways Act 1921 and the Caledonian Railway was a constituent of the newly formed...
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    consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857. Albert...
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    Shibden Hall (category Use British English from January 2019)
    Retrieved 6 January 2019. "Shibden Miniature Railway | Britain's Great Little Railways". Britain's Great Little Railways. Archived from the original on 7 February...
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  • Charles Surtees (category Directors of the Great Central Railway)
    as a director of the Great Central Railway and was chairman of the Universal Life Assurance Society when it merged with North British and Mercantile...
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    Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America and for the encouragement of the Fishery) was a British joint-stock...
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  • Arthur John Barry (category British railway civil engineers)
    Development, London (1910) Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location...
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    Samson Fox (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    return to great-grandfather's glittering Yorkshire hall". The Guardian. Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes: Grand Lodge of England "Armorial Families"...
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    Grindlay family (category British families)
    in each quarter a dove, or, and azure, counter changed of the field. Robson, Thomas (1830). The British Herald or Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the...
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    antisemitism and persecution in the 1920s and 1930s two-thirds of the city's Jews emigrated, mostly to the US and Great Britain. Those who remained were shipped...
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    completely destroyed in the Great Fire of London, and is considered to be one of the finest cathedrals in Britain and a fine example of Baroque architecture...
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    Population". A Vision of Britain Through Time. Great Britain Historical GIS Project. Retrieved 6 September 2011. "Ethnic minorities in Britain". search.worldcat...
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    armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time 1884 The house of Morgan :...
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    authorities of Gwynedd to the west and Conwy to the east. Caernarvonshire County Council received a grant of armorial bearings from the College of Arms in 1949...
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    merchants engaged in the grocery trade, it is one of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies. Founded in the 14th century by members of the Guild of Pepperers...
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    of freight lines reduce the cost of shipping coal, and made products manufactured in Scotland competitive throughout Britain. For example, railways opened...
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