Freehold Land Society Promises Secure Freeholds for Working Men
A Wolverhampton based society reports rapid growth and funds over £8,000 spent, with 1,200 shares and three estates totaling about seventy acres. It touts cheap, wholesale land pricing to members, aims to distribute 500 more allotments by March, and urges working and middle class men to join to gain county votes and political influence. Members may suspend payments during illness or economic downturn.
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Moorfield
Sedgley Road
Birmingham
Whitmore Reans
Wolverhampton
Bilston
Wednesbury
Willenhall
Freehold Land Society
England
Nursery of Liberty
Garden of Freedom
Sheffield Freehold Land Society Purchases 31 Acres Near Town
The Sheffield Freehold Land Society bought an estate of 31 acres for £4100, forming part of Offley Shore's domains. The land lies about a mile and a half from the town centre.
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Sheffield Freehold Land Society
Offley Shore
Public meetings in January at listed towns
Public meetings are scheduled during January to be held in Finsbury Banbury Berkeley Coventry Darlington North Shields and other towns. The notice lists several locations where community gatherings will take place this month.
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Finsbury
Banbury
Berkeley
Coventry
Darlington
North Shields
Glasgow meeting backs garden allotments for workers
A Glasgow public meeting at Merchants Hall forms a Glasgow section of the Royal Patriotic and Industrial Society of Scotland to establish garden allotments for the working classes and promote self support. Attendees include Lord Provost, Rev. Dr. Hill, Sir John Maxwell, Archibald Campbell, and others. resolutions favor industrial gardens, parochial farms, and broader urban reform.
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Glascow
Merchants’hall
Hutcheson-street
Royal Patriotic and Industrial Society of Scotland
Glasgow
John Maxwell
Pollock
Hill
Scotland
Earl of Glasgow
Archibald Campbell
Blythswood
Bono
Eastbourne
Sussex
Mr. B
Farnley Tyas
Huddersfield
Hear
Tichfield
Highlands
Britain
Mackenzie
Ellianach
Gilbert
Inverness
Dr. Mackenzie
Gairloch
John Maxwnn
Bond
Chorlton
London
Lord Ashley
Sir John Maxwell
Lavxiz
H. Drunlop
Burner
M‘leophere
Edinburgh
M‘leod
M‘laws
Campreau
General Society
Bonn
Havey Tennant
Mather
James Anderson
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