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A History of the County of Oxford
… gig-mills outside the town, was apparently confined to a horse-powered rowing machine provided by the Blanket Company … after, 13 and in the mid 19th century there was a small horse- or donkey-powered spinning factory on Corn Street. 14 … and provision merchants, established on the former Lamb Inn site at the corner of Corn Street and Market Place by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… blankets were sold to British firms. 17 Rugs, mops, and horse-collar cloths were still made. 18 Increasing trade … of the town during the First World War and later used as a flying training school. The factory became a repair unit for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… part-time students of all ages, and ran agricultural and horse-management courses from sites at Hailey and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Eynsham, turnpiked at the same time, was then only a 'horse road', but became the chief carriage route following … 77 In the 1840s the post office was in the Staple Hall Inn; it was subsequently moved to near the Methodist chapel … a day and a daily omnibus to Oxford from the Staple Hall Inn, and by the 1860s both had ceased. 84 An …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and by the 1640s it may have been part of the White Hart Inn, although both those buildings possibly lay a little … bleaching house, and around 1850 John George established a horse-powered spinning factory there or nearby. 160 In 1873 … in Witney at premises on High Street, driven by an eight-horse-power engine acquired about 1851. 177 In 2003, before …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was mentioned. That building became the Three Crowns Inn before 1766, and in 1783 the bridewell was an outbuilding … of the nurses before 1891, moved to the former Staple Hall Inn on Bridge street, but closed about 1901. 274 The local … 312 at first apparently using a fire engine fetched by horse from Cokethorpe (near Ducklington). 313 In 1880 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… much of the collapse of an upper floor at the White Hart Inn in 1653, during performance of a play which, he claimed, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… his wife's family the Townsends, owners of the Staple Hall Inn, 37 and the following year William Castle, a Witney … of worship in 1971. 58 A scheme to convert the Staple Hall Inn into a chapel was overruled on planning grounds, 59 and …