. The ways of our railways . ed into the CreweMechanics Institution, the management being vestedin a Council, elected annually, of representativesnominated by the directors and members conjointly,and this system of electing the governing body hascontinued ever since. The original building of theinstitution was removed in 1846, and a larger edificebuilt by the company in its place, and this has beenadded to from time to time until it has reached itspresent dimensions. The population of Crewe in 1846 was only a fewhundreds, now it is upwards of 40,000. The menemployed in the works were then 161,
. The ways of our railways . ed into the CreweMechanics Institution, the management being vestedin a Council, elected annually, of representativesnominated by the directors and members conjointly,and this system of electing the governing body hascontinued ever since. The original building of theinstitution was removed in 1846, and a larger edificebuilt by the company in its place, and this has beenadded to from time to time until it has reached itspresent dimensions. The population of Crewe in 1846 was only a fewhundreds, now it is upwards of 40,000. The menemployed in the works were then 161, now theynumber about 8,000, besides large numbers of menemployed in other departments of the railway com-panys service. It was in 1846 that the GrandJunction Railway was amalgamated with theLondon and Birmingham and Manchester and Bir-mingham Railways, under the title of the Londonand North-Western Railway. In 1849, evening classesfor teaching reading, writing, arithmetic andmechanical drawing were formed in connection with. THE MEDICAL FUND SOCIETY S DISPENSARY, SWINDON, G. \V. by Protheroe & Simons, Suindor., ]
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