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A History of the County of Oxford
… Smith & Co., and Marriott & Sons remained the chief manufacturers, accounting for 90 per cent of the town's … World War. 13 A fourth company, James Walker and Sons Ltd of Mirfield (Yorks.), opened a factory at the Crofts in … War by large government orders, which pushed all three manufacturers to full capacity and which were shared on a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… aimed at preparing the sons of wealthier merchants, manufacturers and minor gentry for university. Despite early … at various Sunday schools, while writing was taught in associated Saturday evening classes. 16 The experiences of … 1662), one of a prominent family of farmers and fullers associated with the town since the mid 15th century, who made …
A History of the County of Oxford
… have followed the outline of furlongs; 20 possibly it was associated with the building-up of Corn Street in the 16th … house fronts were remodelled by prosperous tradesmen and manufacturers, characteristic alterations including raised … taken over by the newly formed Universal Aircraft Services Ltd, set up as a training school for pilots and engineers …
A History of the County of Oxford
… earliest roof structures known to survive in the town are associated with some of those buildings: Nos. 1012 High … Some cottages may have been built by woollen merchants and manufacturers for their workers: in 1840 William Marriott … taken in 1894 (NMR). Hants RO, 11M59/B1/22, m. 15; cf. HMC Portland II, p. 301, mentioning good local slate c. 1680. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vestry was largely dominated by leading professionals, manufacturers, and tradespeople such as the Batts, Colliers, … 21 typhoid cases in the town during the previous year were associated with contaminated water-supply, and in 1900 many … The symbols were those of St John the Baptist, frequently associated with medieval textile or cloth guilds, and had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the west, incorporating chambers and garderobes and associated possibly with adjacent service buildings, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the basis of the borough seal and who was frequently associated with medieval cloth or textile guilds. 74 A … 10 6 s. 8 d. a year in the 1520s 76 may have been associated with one of those chapels, but evidence is … or schoolroom. The south transept aisle, perhaps already associated with owners of Caswell House in Curbridge, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Catholic doctrine. Several of the group seem to have been associated with the cloth industry and to have had London … recovery began under the Baptist minister Thomas Taylor, associated with Witney from 1800 and pastor from 1806 to … Early adherents included small craftsmen, tradesmen, and manufacturers, among them broadweavers, fullers, and in 1694 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… seem mostly to have been tradespeople of lower status, associated probably with a group centred on the Greenwood …