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A History of the County of Oxford
… 44 probably then and certainly by the 1870s it included a large pleasure-fair, which continued in the early 21st …
A History of the County of Oxford
… introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The blanket industry … weavers into factories, and the consequent replacement of large numbers of small master-weavers by a few dominant family firms with sufficient capital. In large part such developments were a response to potentially …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20th century blanketmanufacture continued to employ large numbers: in 1900 there were around 250 looms and 800 … operated 475 looms with 322 weavers, 7 and presumably large numbers were employed in other processes. During the … in 1949; 10 in the mid 1920s Smith's merged with the large Manchester wholesalers J. & N. Philips to form a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… union where school fees were still charged, despite large government grants and assistance from the county … them appointed by Mary Box. Both 'out-town boarders' and large numbers of local boys were educated there 'to the great … the thriving Wesleyan school attracted pupils from the large and influential Dissenting population, and, unlike the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a large pre-Conquest estate. From the 17th century it became … boundary was adjusted to take in Woodgreen school. 30 Large industrial estates west of the town controversially … throughout the period, and in the late 1850s, when 'a large number' from the Witney area were 'anxious to avail …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The plan of Riverside House on Bridge Street, evidently a large, late 16th-century house of three cells, seems to have … but possibly built to the same plan on an unusually large scale and with strikingly up-to-date architectural … roof, whose arrangement implies that there were three large chambers on the first floor. The wing was largely …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rate, supplemented by government grants or loans for large capital expenditure such as water supply or housing. In … allowing felons to 'communicate with their associates at large' and necessitating constant attendance by a constable … a pumping station near Apley Barn in Curbridge, with a large brick water tower at the junction of Burford Road and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and an inhabited range to the north with chimneys and a large Romanesque doorway, the whole still surrounded by a … for a proposed addition to the house, and received a large rent reduction to allow for rebuilding and repairs: the … that built by Gray, and was T-shaped, comprising a large northsouth range with hipped roof and tall end-stacks, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish, conterminous with the late Anglo-Saxon estate, was large for Oxfordshire, covering 7,182 a. and including, … the house was 'strongly built with stone', and contained a large hall and a parlour; outbuildings included three large barns, a stable, and a dovecot, presumably in the two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Methodist meeting house on High Street was superseded by a large and prominent neo-Gothic chapel, which, with a nearby … inhabitants, among them Elijah Waring (d. 1815), who left large benefactions to the town, 91 but by 1840 the … first preached there in 1764 he found a congregation 'both large and deeply attentive'. Wesley retained his admiration …