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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at March, Wisbech, and Ely in rotation, was not carried into effect, but the clerk of the council, the treasurer, the … so severely reduced in 1823 46 were replaced in 1832 by gas lighting, the quality of which was for a long time unsatisfactory and the prices high. 47The Wisbech Gas Light and Coke Company, with works in Eastfield, was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and consists principally of one long street, lighted with gas, paved, and supplied with water from wells. Here is a … under which are veins of soft limestone, which is burnt into lime; in some places are found layers of hard stone with … existed here so early as 1164, which afterwards came into the hands of the Hospitallers. Withcall (St. Martin) …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of South Bradford, N. division of Salop, 6 miles (E.) from Shrewsbury; containing 219 inhabitants, and comprising about … the roads from Worcester to Ludlow, and from Staffordshire into Herefordshire. It lies on the north-west border of the … the trade, as at present conducted, it has nearly fallen into disuse. The number of persons now employed averages only …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the end of the 20th century Witney had been transformed into a substantial and still expanding town of over 20,000 … Fiberweaving, invented in the United States in 1959, was introduced at Mount Mills under licence from 1965, three … increasing output by 50 per cent. A fifth Fiberweaver was introduced in 1974, when the last of Early's traditional …
A History of the County of Oxford
… spread over a 14-mile radius and extended certainly into Gloucestershire. 75 Several clothiers' inventories … Regulations for new products, such as the cabin-blankets introduced for use at sea in the early 18th century, were … box 156, lease 12 Sept. 1739; ibid. rental c. 1751 (folded into unrelated lease 3 May 1780). ORO, MS Wills Oxon. 9/3/7; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the largely contemporaneous gathering of hand-loom weavers into factories, and the consequent replacement of large … 10 In the early 19th century water-powered spinning was introduced by tenants of New Mill: Edmund Wright, killed in … Street before 1840; besides being ironmongers they were gas-fitters, bellhangers, locksmiths, and brass- and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20th century steam- and waterpower was supplemented by gas engines and (at Mount Mills) by an oil engine, and from … blankets, and, more significantly, coloured blankets were introduced, requiring considerable expansion of dyeing … precedence over civilian orders. 19 War bonuses were introduced by Early's and presumably other firms, together …
A History of the County of Oxford
… improvement under the dynamic rector Charles Jerram, who introduced regular inspections, half-yearly examinations, and … again becoming common and other pupils progressing into a broad range of occupations. A new block containing a … south, bought by the county council in 1969 and converted into an administrative centre, staff common room, and living …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the putative pre-urban settlement of Witney extended into much of what was later Curbridge, and possibly north of … Brewery west of Church Green, established about 1839, a gas works east of High Street, established by 1840, Daniel … piecemeal from the 1820s, and street-lighting was introduced in the 1830s, 259 though in 1839 the Oxford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the stair, but the principal door appears to give into the high end of the house rather than the low end. It is … an original feature, and all the Mill Street cottages had gas from the outset, part of a steady but by no means … acquired a portable steam engine in 1854 and may have introduced steam-powered looms in 1858, 169 presumably in …