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Mon 20th June
Advert
SILK MILLS AND MANUFACTORY
WOKINGHAM, BERKS
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION
By Mr. Creaker
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Without reserve, at the Roe Buck Inn, Wokingham, on Tuesday, the 21 Day of
June, 1825, at three o’clock in the afternoon.
The residue of the LEASE of a capital and desirable silk mill, situate in Peach-street
in the town of Wokingham, Berks, comprising substantial brick building, of four
floors, each seventy feet in length, with a steam engine, of six horse power.—Also a
brick building in two tenements at a short distance from the Mill and adjoining Peach-
street
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The estate is held by a term of thirty-one years from 25 December 1807, at the rent
of £45 per annum.
For further particulars, and to view the premises, apply to the auctioneer,
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Wokingham; if by letter, postage to be paid.Mon 27 June
We understand that it is in contemplation to establish a National School at
Wokingham; and an advertisement announces the sale of Ladies’ Fancy Work at the
Town-hall, on Monday, July 4, which is likely to be attended by the principal families
in the neighbourhood.

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Mon 5 Sept
Mr. Bird was lecturing last week at Wokingham, on astronomy, and those who
attended his lectures were much interested by his manner, which was very intelligible
to the junior part of his audience. We do not remember to have witnessed any thing on
the sublime science of astronomy, better calculated than Mr. Bird’s lectures are, to
excite in the youthful mind so lively and desirable impressions of the magnitude of
the heavenly bodies, the order and immensity of the universe; and of the beauty,
sublimity and utility of the mighty works of the creation.
The study of astronomy tends more than any other, to increase the force of the
understanding. It may justly be considered the noblest privilege of our nature; for it is
in the contemplation or the heavens that we discover the wonders of the Deity, see his
wisdom in the works of creation, and follow his footsteps through the immense region
of his boundless empire, where
“World beyond world, in infinite extent
Profusely scattered o’er the blue immense,”
Mr. Bird’s splendid transparent orrery has a very grand and imposing effect; it
exhibits all the planets and satellites as if they were suspended in space; it shews their
respective revolutions round a resplendent scene, without any apparent cause; it gives
the most brilliant and beautiful idea of the heavenly bodies, and shews in the clearest
manner the appearances, laws, motions etc. of the whole of the planetary systems.
These lectures are evidently the production of a man of great ingenuity and study;
for through the whole course, Mr. B. delights his audience by the charms of variety,
and the impress of novelty, which he has by intense application been able to obtain
from the inexhaustible treasures which are every where to be found in the minds of
philosophy. We feel great pleasure in saying that Mr. B’s lectures have given the
highest satisfaction to every lover of literature and science. We understand the lecturer
intends visiting this town, and then Abingdon.

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