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A History of the County of Oxford
… large numbers: in 1900 there were around 250 looms and 800 workers, half of them employed by Charles Early & Co., and by 1922 there were over 1,000 workers and 400 looms. 4 Despite recession the industry still … was a notable market, though most blankets were sold to British firms. 17 Rugs, mops, and horse-collar cloths were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… born in 1815 to a relatively humble family of blanket-workers, may have been typical. Having learned writing at … and Technical School: 150 a year was to benefit blanket-workers' children in the form of scholarships, … vocational subjects; its students included male and female workers from Witney and Bridge Street Mills and local …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nearer Corn Street's west end, presumably for quarry-workers, though none were recorded later. The form Corn … Cal. QS, i, pp. 153b, 181; ORO, Welch XXVIII/1. Universal British Dir. (17908), iv. 806; Pigot's Lond. & Prov. Dir. … econ. hist. (mkts and fairs). Brewer, Oxon. 485. Universal British Dir. (17908), iv. 8069, largely repeating R. Blome, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… chambers. 105 Besides clothiers' stock-in-trade and cloth workers' tools (including tuckers' shears and grindstones, … sports clubs, included a strong Women's Institute, a British Legion, a Young Men's Social Club based at Church … at the Witney Mills club, which became prominent in local league cricket and hosted Oxfordshire County matches, while …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estates outside the town, despite the fact that most workers lived there and were assumed to enjoy its facilities. … to the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford was acquired from the British Red Cross Society in 1923 and was replaced in 1934, … 1757, dating it to 1249; A. Ballard and J. Tait (eds.), British Borough Charters, 12161307 (1923), pp. xciii, 386; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Winchester); F. M. Powicke and E. B. Fryde, Handbook of British Chronology (1961 edn), 259; Oxf. Dioc. Yr. Bk. (1980 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… keen interest in the conduct and moral wellbeing of their workers, and encouraged and rewarded teetotalism. 116 56. The … on Corn Street, a predominantly working-class area of mill workers, labourers, and small craftsmen, 139 is probably not …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is surrounded by an ancient intrenchment supposed to be British, and to have been afterwards occupied by the Romans, …
A History of the County of Essex
… enjoyed a decade of expansion, making many ships for British and foreign governments, before the firm was … in 19201 and survived in 1970. Many of the shipyard workers came from outside the town, unlike the fishermen who …
A History of the County of Essex
… and Wivenhoe was supplied by the Eastern Gas Board, later British Gas. 93 Forrestt's, the shipbuilding firm, was lit by …