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A History of the County of Oxford
… furnishing group, which converted part of the premises for furniture-making. 15 The Witney Blanket Company, also taken … firms exported abroad. 24 Wesley Barrell expanded its furniture manufacture from the early 1960s, acquiring a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… before the mid 16th century. Cloth searchers and sealers, required under legislation of 1552, were appointed in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 67 though in 1842 the clerks again lacked the required weights. 68 From 1705 stallage and tollage were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were tailors and drapers, dealers in glass, china, and furniture, and undertakers. Several other late 19th-century … numbers of gentry, fundholders, and property-owners, 93 required the services of numerous professionals. In the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… company, selling bedding and blankets but known later for furniture manufacture, was established by Thomas Wesley …
A History of the County of Oxford
… elementary education, with some history and geography, required by farmers and tradesmen: numbers rose steadily from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a fixture, although Nicholas Gunn (d. 1602) expressly required his widow to maintain the window-glass around his … 'on the stair', implying a landing large enough to place furniture. Domestic Amenities The capital investment that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… chapels built in the 18th and early 19th centuries required authorization by Witney vestry, prompting protracted … with church affairs, though in the late 1890s the UDC required its authorization to extend the municipal cemetery, … 108 A medical officer of health, a qualified doctor required to make annual reports and to assist with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were demolished in 1936. 36 By the 1960s the house required expensive repairs, and a new house in Station Lane …