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A History of the County of Oxford
… detail. In Witney, as elsewhere, the First World War checked all private house-building. Housing shortages … Though no council housing had been built before the war under the limited powers then available, thereafter the … new community rooms to the south. The chapel contains a memorial window to W. H. Tarrant (d. 1897), and tablets to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 130 people in 1911, but closed during the First World War and was sold in 1922. 228 Public Health and Public …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Family banners and armour in the chapel survived Civil War mutilation but were removed by workmen around 1840, … was fitted in 1909 in memory of Samuel and Mary Shuffrey, memorial glass was fitted in the east window soon after 1918, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… among some of the population, while in the Civil War, despite the presence of Puritan lecturers and of some … 23643. Above, churches. Above, intro. (social life: Civil War). Calamy Revised, ed. A. G. Matthews, 342; R. Mayo, Life … Bks. refs. at p. 217. Above, intro. (social life: Civil War); churches. Below (Indeps.; Quakers). Compton Census, ed. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1915 at No. 1 Church Green, and during the First World War masses were celebrated in the former workhouse chapel for Portuguese prisoners of war helping to construct Witney aerodrome. 12 A Roman …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… lepers was founded by Gilbert de la Ley, of which the only memorial now remaining is a pointed window in a farmhouse … style recently added by Sir W. Chaytor. In the great civil war it was held by Sir William d'Arcy for the king, and was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of persons slain near the spot in a skirmish during the war of the seventeenth century. In the parish are many …
A History of the County of Essex
… tinued at a steam mill on the site until the Second World War. 68 A fair where toys were sold was held annually before … who were all local men. 15 During the Second World War the upstream shipyard produced wooden minesweepers. … 124. Lamb. Pal. Libr., Fulham Papers. E.R. lxii. 356. Memorial in ch. to John Green Chamberlain. White's Dir. Essex …
A History of the County of Essex
… by George V in 1916, was demolished after the First World War. 3 The ferry was operated by Rowhedge Ironworks for their … used to widen the road c. 1898. 49 Before the First World War there was further development on the east side of The … The Avenue north of Belle Vue Road before the Second World War. 51 In 1946-7 prefabricated houses were provided in …