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A History of the County of Oxford
… John (d. 1862) from 1851 and operating as Charles Early & Co. from 1864, gradually expanded his business and premises, … from 1883, taking over the separate firm of Edward Early & Co. (with premises at New Mill and West End) in 1894, buying Woodford and Witney Mills (where he was co-lessee) in the 1880s, and acquiring Henry Early's business …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and 800 workers, half of them employed by Charles Early & Co., and by 1922 there were over 1,000 workers and 400 looms. … considerable expansion of dyeing plants. 9 Charles Early & Co., William Smith & Co., and Marriott & Sons remained the chief manufacturers, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1902 the schools were accordingly united as the co-educational Witney Grammar and Technical School, and the … library. 49 After the building of a new Wesleyan chapel a co-educational day school, under consideration by 1849, was … Witney Grammar and Technical School became a fee-paying, co-educational secondary school taking pupils between the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on three large mill complexes: Charles Early & Co.'s Witney Mills on Mill Street, William Smith & Co.'s Bridge Street Mill, established in the later 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… good, more often characterized by mutual tolerance and co-operation than by occasional disputes over education or … (1895 and later edns); for Foreshew, M. Bee, 'Clinch and Co.', Oxon. Local Hist. vol. 2, no. 3 (1985), 779. Godson, … Crawford, from papers formerly in possession of C. Early & Co.; some original MSS were transferred to ORO in 20023. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Street Lighting The Witney Gas (later Gas and Coke) Co. built a gasworks east of High Street in the late 1830s, … supply was becoming common. 291 The Witney Electric Supply Co., established around 1899 with offices at No. 71 High … and Gloucester Place. 303 The Witney Electric Supply Co. lit the Butter Cross clock from 1904, and from the 1910s …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Thornton family, of whom James left two daughters, who, as co-heiresses, conveyed it by marriage to the Trevelyans and …
A History of the County of Essex
… a voyage which led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Co. 99 He and others also built many ships for the navy, … providing related supplies and services. 11 G. Rennie & Co. of Greenwich joined with Forrestt at the upstream yard in … Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering and Dry Dock Co. Ltd. New machinery and plant was introduced and the …
A History of the County of Essex
… in a 'disgraceful state' and the Tendring Hundred Railway Co. re- placed it with a new road, which had tollgates in … to the post office. 21 About 1900 the National Telephone Co. employed one operator at its exchange at 88 High Street … 1722-7 and 1734- 41 and director of the East India Co. Apart from Martin's mansion and another, Wivenhoe Park, …
A History of the County of Essex
… council sold the waterworks in 1961 to Tendring Waterworks Co. which supplemented the supply by feeding in water from … in 1861, perhaps that described in 1878 as Wivenhoe Gas Co. which was still trading under that name in 1937. The … 92 By 1947 gas was supplied in bulk by Colchester Gas Co. In 1949 gas was nationalized and Wivenhoe was supplied by …