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A History of the County of Sussex
… World War, 55 and by 1946 its site had been built over. 56 Trade and industry. Non-agricultural occupations in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… on a commercial scale, began to develop. The local meat trade, mainly with London, was established by the 14th … City affairs. 30 Later in the 14th century the Stratford trade was stimulated by royal ordinances that livestock … of the edicts, the banishment of an obnoxious London trade to the suburbs, is clear. By the 16th century there …
A History of the County of Essex
… for the bakers of Stratford. 7 This was a flourishing trade, and from an early date each mill comprised a pair or a …
A History of the County of Essex
… to accommodate these classes, and in 1936 it opened a trade school for girls in Water Lane (Deanery Road). When the trade school was bombed in the Second World War its work … college into separate technical schools. The girls trade school was rebuilt (1949) as the West Ham technical …
A History of the County of Essex
… but others may have been at Stratford Langthorne. 2 This trade is said to have ceased about 1570. 3 From the 13th … mentioned in 1594, 9 and for much of the 17th century that trade seems to have flourished. 10 Paul Fox, a silk-weaver of … Plaistow and elsewhere, and probably continued to ply his trade in West Ham after leaving the abbey. Several tanners …
A History of the County of Essex
… century and later as Cordwainer Street, from the leather trade carried on there. 58 Balaam Street, first recorded in …
A History of the County of Essex
… out, gifts of food, fuel, clothing, and the tools of trade, continued to account for a large proportion of the … Labour group with a policy including, among other things, trade union wages for council employees, labour clauses in … local government, 70 was attributed to good publicity, trade union support, and the hostility caused by the previous …
A History of the County of Essex
… a Liberal. West Ham (South) was won by Joseph Leicester, a trade unionist and temperance reformer. He was defeated in … council as well as his position as secretary of the trade union which he had founded to protect the interests of … was held from 1918 to 1940 by J. J. (Jack) Jones, a trade union colleague of Thorne, and also a veteran member of …