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A History of the County of Oxford
… at Church Green, besides establishing over thirty bread, clothing, and lending charities. 294 The problem of poor … Witney and District Music Festival, which originated as a fund-raising event about 1923, continued until the Second … year the urban district council used a public war-memorial fund to purchase the Leys, still occupied by the military, as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… including its repair and furnishing, provision of clothing, and teaching child inmates basic literacy and … 206 In 1807 the vestry ordered that 25 s.30 s. be spent on clothing and apprenticing parish boys, 207 though of some 500 … 275 Before 1902 the UDC joined with other authorities to fund a joint isolation hospital at Shipton Downs (in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… when Mather also received 6 a year from the Presbyterian fund, the congregation was claimed to be 400500, presumably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for extra duty in Lent, and the remainder to the poor. A fund of 21 per annum, the produce of bequests from Richard …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a scale as formerly; the articles consists chiefly of clothing for the West India markets, swanskins for the … for land), directing the proceeds to be employed in clothing widows of sailors. Wiverton Hall WIVERTON HALL, with … the produce of some other bequests, in money, coal, and clothing. The poor-law union of Wokingham comprises 16 …
A History of the County of Essex
… to the poor; the interest appears to have been paid into a fund for the sick and poor during the 1920s, and …
A History of the County of Essex
… many of them women doing outwork for Col- chester clothing firms. Outworking continued in the early 20th … Manu- facturing Co. Ltd. employed c. 25 women making clothing from 1935 until c. 1946 at its factory in Alma Street. 35 In 1951 the clothing industry employed 5.2 per cent of the 670 people …