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Tithing

English historic legal and administrative unit comprising the men of ten neighbouring households, held responsible for the actions for any one of its members.

Tottenham Outrage

Armed robbery in Tottenham, North London on 23 January 1909.

Town’s Hospital

The Town's Hospital was a poorhouse in Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1731. It occupied a site at the Old Green on Great Clyde Street, at the junction of present-day Ropework Lane.

Township

Division of an ecclesiastical parish that had civil functions.

Trafford General Hospital

Generally considered to be the UK's first National Health Service hospital, and the first in the world to offer free healthcare to all.

Trafford Town Hall

Officially opened as Stretford Town Hall on the granting of Stretford's charter on 16 September 1933.

Tyldesley Urban District

Tyldesley cum Shakerley Urban District and its successor, Tyldesley Urban District. was from 1894 to 1974 a local government district in Lancashire, England. In 1974 the urban district was abolished and its former area was transfered to the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester.

Unitary authority

Local government administrative unit in England and Wales.

Urban district

Administrative areas that had district councils and shared local government responsibilities with a county council.

Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494

Act of Parliament intended to suppress beggars and itinerant vagabonds.