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A History of the County of Essex
… introduced and the company enjoyed a decade of expansion, making many ships for British and foreign governments, before the firm was bankrupted in 1922, making c. 150 men unemployed. The shipyard had been the … Colchester Manu- facturing Co. Ltd. employed c. 25 women making clothing from 1935 until c. 1946 at its factory in …
A History of the County of Essex
… 66 Social attractions in Wivenhoe included an annual toy fair. 67 A cricket match was played in 1765, sailing …
A History of the County of Essex
… paid than relief in kind; occasionally money was paid for making clothes for paupers. In 1826 there were 44 people …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… vicinity of the town. An act was passed in 1845 for making a railway called the Wear-Valley railway: the line …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… doubtless one of the first efforts in the art of gun-making. Hemlock stone, Stukely is of opinion, a little beyond …
A History of the County of Oxford
… commuted to a modus of £28, and surplice fees averaged £2, making a total of £40 a year, a value which had doubled to … churchwardens in 1801-2, the work probably including the making of a window high in the west end of the south wall, … 1860 and replaced in 1881; a new treble was added in 1900 making a ring of **six. All the bells were recast in 1956. 63 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land, most testators having a few cows and some cheese-making equipment. John Howell in 1683 had 22 cows, at £126 … used to grind swords in the Civil War. 75 By 1674 it was making some sort of rough paper, and by 1683 paper suitable … 1690s seems to have been operated by members of the paper-making Quelch family, including John, who leased a cottage …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in Brewood, sent pig iron to many of their other iron-making concerns in the Stour Valley area. Thomas Foley … closed soon after 1670. 52 Not until c. 1780 was iron making reestablished in the Oakengates area. In that year … subsequent history is not known. 57 A major new iron-making enterprise began in 1818 when James Foster, the …