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A History of the County of Gloucester
… from Rodley until c. 1920. 79 Westbury had a small cloth industry in 1608 when 21 weavers (four of whom were …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… some of the income was spent in maintaining children of cloth workers at a technical school. In 1955 small sums of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the Bradford Avon, Westbury emerged as a centre of the cloth industry of that region towards the end of the 15th … The effects of the depression which hit the broad cloth industry during the first quarter of the 17th century … its manufacture of medley cloths and abandon its old white-cloth export industry. 77 By the end of the century this had …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the junction of Church and Edward Streets, lies the Angel Cloth Mill. Bitham Cloth Mill lies to the north-east and abuts on to Bitham Lane … town's public buildings bear witness to the revival of the cloth industry and the position of the Laverton family in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… with loft above, and all things fitted for the dressing of cloth. When William Whitaker sold the manor in 1619-20 to Sir … mortgaged, and for a time Angel Mill ceased to be used for cloth, and became the flour mill of a firm called Cave & … William Matravers, and reconverted for the production of cloth. In 1852 Laverton bought Angel Mill, and in the same …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1861 after a disastrous fire had gutted one of the town's cloth mills. 50 In 1886, under the Municipal Corporations Act …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the poor was to be spent on coats, bearing the testator's cloth-mark upon the sleeve. In 1834 a scheme was made for … held in one of the communal workshops connected with the cloth industry until 1799 when a chapel was built in the …