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the direction of Robert Stagg. It consists of several uniform rows of neat and convenient cottages, situated in a spacious garden, a portion of which was appropriated to each dwelling. The increasing population of
Middleton had considerably enhanced the rents of dwelling houses there, and it was to diminish this burden that the Company built Masterman Place, in which, as vacancies occur, they place their most deserving workmen, thus combining general utility with the reward of personal merit. The first occupiers took possession of their new abodes in May 1824, accompanied by bands of music, etc." Temperance was required by the company in their new houses.
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By 1890 the company was starting to suffer from competition, both from other materials and imports. From 1895 onwards the
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Middleton they built company houses (Newtown). A contemporary writer described the part of Middleton built by the Company: "Masterman Place or as it is sometimes called, New-Middleton, was erected in 1833 by the London Lead Company from the chaste and appropriate design of Mr. Bonomi, and under
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Company in North Wales, 1692-1792' (unpublished Ph. D. thesis, Leicester University 1972).
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Another group of entrepreneurs, of whom Dr Edward Wright was a leading member, obtained leases in
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73(1) (2001-2), 38-9; A. Raistrick, 'London Lead Company 1692-1705'
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