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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… member of Hoghton manor, and part of the inheritance of a co-heiress of the Alansons, who married Roger de Withnil or … was erected in 1683, and repaired in 1811. The parish is co-extensive with the manor, and comprises 7084 a. 35 p., of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… blanket making is not certain, but by 1830 John Early and Co. were established both at New Mill and at Witney Mill, the … 1830s, it remained divided until bought by Charles Early & Co. in the 1880s. In 1882 the firm renewed the lease of … at the end of the century. 64 By 1813 Messrs Hankins and Co. were lessees at 52 10 s. a year, increased before 1818 to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… few blacksmiths, coopers, and wheelwrights, and one or two ironmongers or metal-workers. 148 Nearly all such occupations … at both Witney and Woodstock. 202 Other retailers included ironmongers, of whom some sold a range of goods: one in 1784 … Buttery, and Wm. Lark: cf. Acts of Court of the Mercers' Co. 14531527 (1936), ed. L. Lyell and F. D. Watney, 69, 122, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… iii. 342; Univ. Brit. Dir. [ c. 1790], iv. 806; Pinnock's Co. Histories (1819), 69; PO Dir. Oxon. (1847 and later …
A History of the County of Oxford
… whit-tawyers, corvesers, cobblers), metal-working (ironmongers and smiths), buildingwork (masons, carpenters, …
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, … three men and an apprentice. 76 42. Leigh and Sons' ironmongers, Market Square, c.1930. 43. Boiler supplied for … established on High Street before 1840; besides being ironmongers they were gas-fitters, bellhangers, locksmiths, …
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 … firms such as the builders Bartlett Brothers, the ironmongers and builders Leigh and Sons, Young's engineering, …
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
… examples including the cast-iron front of Leighs' ironmongers at Market Square (Fig. 42), and No. 35 Bridge … 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, …