almshouses

(n.) = almshouse

Ex. The author explains the reconstruction of charitable institutions (including hospitals, cemeteries, almshouses, orphanages and schools) in California after the 1783 earthquake.

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(n.) = almshouse

Ex. The author explains the reconstruction of charitable institutions (including hospitals, cemeteries, almshouses, orphanages and schools) in California after the 1783 earthquake.

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(n.) = almshouse

Ex. The author explains the reconstruction of charitable institutions (including hospitals, cemeteries, almshouses, orphanages and schools) in California after the 1783 earthquake.

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charitable trust.

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(n.) = charitable trust, donor agency, aid agency, aid organisation, charitable institution, charitable organisation

Ex. It recommends the establishment of a centralised Chinese collection by a joint venture involving a charitable trust.

Ex. The importance of developing information systems in the water sector seems to have been seriously neglected, both by national government and donor agencies.

Ex. Aid agencies have played a major role as sources of funding in assisting developing countries to implement projects involving information technology.

Ex. The author suggests ways in which aid organizations can assist developing economies to develop information technology.

Ex. The author explains the reconstruction of charitable institutions (including hospitals, cemeteries, almshouses, orphanages and schools) in California after the 1783 earthquake.

Ex. This charitable organization was established nearly 50 years ago to provide cultural exchange opportunities for young people all over the world.

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(n.) = almshouse

Ex. The author explains the reconstruction of charitable institutions (including hospitals, cemeteries, almshouses, orphanages and schools) in California after the 1783 earthquake.

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1 orphanage, children's home.

2 hospice, asylum, orphanage, poorhouse.

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► nombre masculino

1 (de huérfanos) orphanage

2 (de peregrinos) hospice

3 (de pobres) poorhouse

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1) [para niños] orphanage

2) [para pobres] ( Hist) poorhouse; (Rel) hospice

3) Cono Sur [para ancianos] old people's home

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masculino ( para niños huérfanos) orphanage; (para peregrinos, mendigos) (Hist) hospice

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= hospice, almshouse.

Ex. The article 'The librarian in the hospice' describes how the librarian seeks to support St Christopher's hospice staff in caring for dying patients while also handling many requests from health-care workers in the UK and abroad for information.

Ex. The author explains the reconstruction of charitable institutions (including hospitals, cemeteries, almshouses, orphanages and schools) in California after the 1783 earthquake.

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masculino ( para niños huérfanos) orphanage; (para peregrinos, mendigos) (Hist) hospice

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1 (para niños huérfanos) orphanage

2 ( Hist) (para peregrinos, mendigos) hospice

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hospicio nm

1. [para niños] orphanage, children's home

2. [para pobres] poorhouse

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1 para niños orphanage

2 HIST para peregrinos hospice

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hospicio nm

: orphanage

non-profit organization, welfare institution.

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charitable organization

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(n.) = charity, charitable organisation, charitable institution

Ex. Denmark has no history of charities or voluntary bodies, so such groups are seen by the authorities as being subversive.

Ex. This charitable organization was established nearly 50 years ago to provide cultural exchange opportunities for young people all over the world.

Ex. The author explains the reconstruction of charitable institutions (including hospitals, cemeteries, almshouses, orphanages and schools) in California after the 1783 earthquake.

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charitable organization, charity

1. दानशाला

Many temples in India have almshouses.

1 [om een binnenplein gelegen huisjes] ±(court of) almshouses

2 [gemeenschappelijke binnenplaats/tuin] courtyard

3 [kleine tuin] garden

SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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Francis Crossley was the youngest of three brothers employed in their father's carpet-weaving business in Halifax and who took over the running of the company on their father's death in 1837. Francis seems to have been the one with technical ability, for it was he who saw the possibilities of weaving by power. Growth of the company was rapid through his policy of acquiring patents and then improving them, and it was soon at the forefront of the carpet-manufacturing trade. He had taken out rights on the patents of John Hill of Manchester, but his experiments with Hill's looms for weaving carpets were not successful.

In the spring of 1850 Francis asked a textile inventor, George Collier of Barnsley, to develop a power loom for carpet manufacture. Collier produced a model that was a distinct advance on earlier looms, and Francis engaged him to perfect a power loom for weaving tapestry and Brussels carpets. After a great deal of money had been expended, a patent was taken out in 1850 in the name of his brother, Joseph Crossley, for a loom that could weave velvet as well as carpets and included some of the ideas of the American E.B. Bigelow. This new loom proved to be a great advance on all the earlier ones, and thus brought the Crossleys a great fortune from both sales of patent rights and the production of carpets from their mills, which were soon enlarged.

According to the Dictionary of National Biography, Francis Crossley was Mayor of Halifax in 1849 and 1850, but Hogg gives this position to his elder brother John. In 1852 Francis was returned to Parliament as the Liberal member for Halifax, and in 1859 he became the member for the West Riding. Among his benefactions, in 1855 he gave to the town of Halifax a twelve-acre park that cost £41,300; a statue of him was erected there. In the same year he endowed twenty-one almshouses. In 1863 a baronetcy was conferred upon him in recognition of his commercial and public services, which he continued to perform until his death. In 1870 he gave the London Missionary Society £20,000, their largest single donation up to that time, and another £10,000 to the Congregational Pastor's Retiring Fund. He became ill when on a journey to the Holy Land in 1869, but although he made a partial recovery he grew worse again towards the end of 1871 and died early in the following year. He left £800,000 in his will.

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SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Textiles

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Titus Salt arrived in Bradford with his father, who was a wool merchant in the town, in 1822. He soon set up his own company and it was there that he experimented with the textile worsted. Alpaca wool comes from an animal of the camel family that resembles the llama, and flocks of domesticated breeds of the animal had been raised in the high Andes since the days of the Incas. The wool was introduced into Europe via Spain and, later, Germany and France. The first attempts to spin and weave the yarn in England were made in 1808, but despite experimentation over the years the material was difficult to work. It was in 1836 that Salt evolved his method of utilizing a cotton warp with part alpaca weft. The method proved a great success and Bradford gained a reputation as a manufacturing centre for alpaca wool, exporting both yarn and cloth in quantity, especially to the USA. By 1850 Salt, who owned six mills, was Bradford's biggest employer and was certainly its richest citizen. He decided to move out of the city and built a new mill works, the architects of which were Lockwood and Mawson, on the banks of the River Aire a few miles from the city. Around the works, between 1851 and 1871, he built houses, a hospital, library, church, institute and almshouses for his workers. The buildings were solid, good-standard structures of local stone and the houses were pleasantly situated, with their amenities making them seem palaces compared to the slums in which other Bradford textile workers lived at the time. The collection of buildings was the first example in Britain of a "model new town", and was, indeed still is, a remarkable prototype of its kind. Apart from being a philanthropist and social reformer, Salt was also concerned with taking advantage of the technical developments of his time. His mill works, which eventually covered ten acres of land, was of fashionably Italianate architectural style (its chimney even a copy of the campanile of the Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa in Venice), although its structure was of iron framing. The weaving shed held 1,200 looms and had capacity for 3,000 workers, who produced 30,000 yards of cloth per day. Water from the river was used to produce steam to power the matchinery used in the manufacturing processes of scouring, dyeing and finishing. For the export of goods, the nearby Leeds-Liverpool Canal linked the works to Britain's chief ports, and the Midland Railway (an extension of the LeedsBradford line which opened in 1846) was of great use for the same purpose.

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