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A History of the County of Oxford
… Corn Exchange as earlier. Some of the best beef allegedly went to prosperous tradesmen, and of the six inmates in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… speculators which had acquired an interest in the firm went bankrupt, putting Early's into receivership. Following a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… family ventures, but from the 1880s, when William Clinch went into partnership with his sons-in-law, it expanded …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town having rendered it largely redundant. The proceeds went to enlarging a new Blake school in Cogges village. 31 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to Witney's market. 63 Traffic to London and Southampton went mostly via Oxford until the building of Abingdon bridge … Springfield housing estate. Alongside such new building went slum clearance. In 1937 around twenty-five houses at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… outings were revived in the 1930s, when 500 mill workers went to Brighton. 433 Leading townsmen continued to … at Smith and Philips' Bridge Street and Crawley mills went on strike following dismissal of a foreman and union …
A History of the County of Oxford
… liberties at Witney, suggesting that not all such rights went unchallenged; 2 the same year, however, he received …
A History of the County of Essex
… the World Wars. 12 At least one local shipyard worker went as far as Barrow-in-Furness (Lancs.) in 1928 in search … river, and fishing vessels, and harbour craft, until it went into voluntary liquidation in 1986. 17 The up- stream …
A History of the County of Essex
… with London. 10 In 1713 two Colchester packet boats went weekly from Wivenhoe to London with cloth and returned … a daily carrier to Col- chester. 17 Three carriers carts went daily to Colchester in 1863, and one still operated in … Brightlingsea, Wivenhoe, and Colchester. 19 Post went to and from Colchester daily in 1832. 20 There was a …
A History of the County of Essex
… of the overseers, John Thomas, accused the other, James Went, of absconding with parish money. Eventually both men …