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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… newel staircase of the 17th century and a door of original linen-fold panelling. d(25). Red Lion Inn, 100 yards S.W. of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hill and dale. Witney has long been celebrated for its manufacture of blankets, which have been invariably regarded … time, it was found to interfere with improvements in the manufacture, and having become incompatible with the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… forming a two-centred arch. Fittings Altar-cloth: Of white linen, with worked inscription: "Lord have mercy upon me. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… industry, 3 but all four sites were associated with cloth manufacture at various times, and from the early 19th century … after John Early converted the main mills for blanket manufacture, perhaps in the 1820s. The Mid 19th Century and … the mill was converted by the firm of J. W. Gardner for manufacture of agricultural manure from bonemeal; 70 that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… exported abroad. 24 Wesley Barrell expanded its furniture manufacture from the early 1960s, acquiring a national …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century, following an apparent acceleration in local cloth manufacture from the 1460s, 16 Witney was attracting wool … to trading in unfinished cloth and perhaps involvement in manufacture. 22 Emmot's eldest son Richard Wenman (d. 1534), … the country's export trade, although narrow cloths and linen were apparently also made. 26 Cloth production may have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wool merchants and fulling mills, 12 suggest early textile manufacture and a dependent clothing trade (mercers, drapers, … in trade at Witney's market and fairs and in local cloth manufacture. Market and fair tolls, already variable during … or contraction should probably not be exaggerated. Textile-manufacture and trade in wool evidently continued, albeit at …
A History of the County of Oxford
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the blanket industry and to a lesser extent on glove manufacture, and seems generally to have thrived despite a … selling bedding and blankets but known later for furniture manufacture, was established by Thomas Wesley Barrell in …