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A History of the County of Oxford
… factory workers, but Witney retained the range of trades, crafts, and industries typical of a small manufacturing and … another 3 per cent engaged in predominantly agricultural crafts such as smithying or coopering, and 7 per cent …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were used to clothe the boys after the manner of Christ's Hospital in London, prompting the unofficial name of Bluecoat …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its south side, and a car park on the north; a community hospital and health centre were added in the late 1970s. 304 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… row in three groups sharing distinctive, simple, arts-and-crafts detail. Those cottages, whose architect is not known, … 19089 on the south side of the forecourt, in an arts-and-crafts style with external render and dressings sympathetic …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20th century to provide fire-fighting, ambulance, and hospital provision, appointing a surveyor and sanitary … and in the 1930s electricity and water committees, a hospital and fire-brigade committee, a housing and public … joined with other authorities to fund a joint isolation hospital at Shipton Downs (in Shipton-under-Wychwood), and in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester, granted it to the hospital of St Cross in Winchester. 11 St Cross's ownership … was a royal servant who later became master of St Cross hospital; 44 William son of Humphrey, who renounced his claim …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and a national school is supported by subscription. An hospital for five lepers was founded by Gilbert de la Ley, of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and at Luckley-Green, about a mile from the town, is an hospital established in 1665, by Henry Lucas, for sixteen pensioners and a master. Attached to the hospital, which is a handsome brick building, erected at an …
A History of the County of Essex
… was made for the care of a parishioner at Bethlehem hospital (Lond.) in 1756. 61 In 1798 there was a parish …