Bromley House Library 1816 to 1916
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Ezekiel Umney
Basket & perambulator manufacturer
Address: Bromley House, Angel Row, Market Place [Post Office, 1876]

He supplied the Library with:
Matting
 £2 15s 0d 14/10/1871
Repairs 2s 6d 13/4/1875
Goods
 £4 2s 9d 5/8/1876
Goods £1 3s 0d 2/3/1877
Goods 6s 9d 22/3/1878







His rent was £4 5s 0d paid quarterly (£25 0s 0d per annum).
The first payment in the Accounts Book is on 24/9/1869 and they continue through to March 1883.
He sub-let accommodation from Perry.

In 1877 it was recorded that he was told of alterations to the gas lighting (1/1/1877) and in 1883 the space he rented was transferred to Mr Bullivant (4/1/1883).

Mr Underwood
Subscriber: 3/3/1856 to 26/3/1861
Deceased.

Daniel Underwood
Subscriber: 5/10/1868 to 12/6/1876.
The share was transferred to Mrs E. Underwood.

Mrs E. Underwood
Subscriber: 12/6/1876 5/5/1884.
The share was transferred from Daniel Underwood.

Rev W. Underwood
The Standfast Ledger records the name but shows no borrowings.

Unknown lady
A fine oil painting hangs in the Thoroton Room.
The identity of this lady is not known.

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The portrait of
an unknown lady
hanging in the
Thoroton Room
at
Bromley House













[4063]



V

Dr William Valentine
Medical practitioner (Heathcote, 2005)
Subscriber: 4/6/1832 to 7/8/1837.
Gift:

Rev Valvey
Address: St John's.
The Standfast Ledger records four borrowings between 21/8/1855 and 29/11/1855.

Van Bloeman
A picture of Figures in a Southern Landscape [oil; 35 x 30 inches] from the school of Van Bloeman is over the fireplace in the Standfast Room (2006).

Van der Veld
Artist.
See –– Francis Swaine.

Rev E.H. Harcourt Vernon
Subscriber: 4/1/1864 to 1/9/1873.
He signed the memorial in support of Count Marioni (librarian) in 1867.
Signor Vertu
Subscriber: 3/11/1862 to 6/11/1865.

C.H. Vickers
There is no record of a subscriber with this name but there is a minuted book request for East and West, a quarterly magazine, costing 1s 0d.
The subscription was agreed for one year (30/9/1913).

W. Vickers, Junior
He was a correspondent of from the Church Congress, Nottingham.
See –– Henry Bell: 1871.

Mrs Jessie Anna Vickers
Married woman.
Address: Lucknow Corner.
Subscriber: 9/4/1907 to 1916.
Share number: 8 (counterfoil dated 9/4/1907).

William Vickers (1797-1882)
Lace manufacturer.
Address: Weekday Cross.
Lord Mayor of Nottingham, 1843-44.
Subscriber: 9/3/1829 to 1/4/1848.
Committee: 1835, 1836.
The name was also found as Vickars.

Gift:
In 1847 he was in arrears with his subscription and his share was liable for forfeit (1/2/1847).
A few months later the balance of a building share was to be paid to him (2/6/1847).
The initial sometimes looks like ‘N’.

William Vickers was a lace manufacturer with a business at Weekday Cross trading as Frearson & Vickers.
He had been born in Mansfield and was a self-taught educated man who taught in the George Street Sunday School.
He married Mary Rogers and they had fourteen children.
He was chairman of the Board of Guardians and associated with the move of the Grammar School to Arboretum Street and with the building of the new Trent Bridge.
He was a deacon of Derby Road Chapel. (Mellors, 1924)

VickersW-sig-4179
The signature of
William Vickers
[4179]


von Hube
See –– Hube.

Thomas Vowe
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 6/9/1819.

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28 January 2008


Neal Priestland