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A History of the County of Somerset
… 1889 but alternative employment was provided by a glove factory, dairies, and milk depots. 86 In the early 19th … 1890 the West Surrey Central Dairy established a small factory in the White Horse yard but shortly afterwards … was later known as Cow and Gate baby milk. In 1936 a large factory was built. In 1959 Cow and Gate merged with United …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… soon discontinued, and a subsequent attempt to establish a factory of Italian crape was attended with no better success. … of woollen caps; at present, there is an extensive factory for sacking, and a little business is carried on in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 200 frames are in operation; there is also a small cotton-factory, and part of the population is employed in obtaining …
A History of the County of Oxford
… By the 1830s, however, allotments for paupers and landless factory workers were being promoted by philanthropic …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its renewal made in 1837, the premises were described as a factory, fulling mill, dwelling house, and land, and it was … 47 The expanded site remained the Earlys' principal factory until the firm's closure in 2002. Waleys (later Farm) … by a wool carder, and in 1861 the mill was a woollen-mop factory, with a resident foreman. 69 In the early 1870s the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mid 1950s, and electric blankets (made at Early's West End factory) from 1957. Refitting at Marriott's Mount Mills … closed its mail-order business in 1976 and its bedding factory at the Leys the following year, 16 while James Walker … Early's was put into voluntary liquidation. The Witney factory was closed in July and production was moved to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wax, tapers and candles, thread, paper, pens and pencils, gunpowder, sugar, and weavers' brushes, and a tobacco house …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was transformed by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family … was in a prosperous state'. 7 37. Woodgreen blanket factory ( later Henry Early's), mid 19 th century. By the … a fifth of the town's working population were wage-earning factory workers, but Witney retained the range of trades, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… James Walker and Sons Ltd of Mirfield (Yorks.), opened a factory at the Crofts in 1933, and in the late 1940s had 50 … bedding, clothes, and footwear, moving in 1921 to a new factory at the Leys where, by the 1930s, it also manufactured … to government contract. Smith and Philips' Bridge Street factory was requisitioned in 1941 and temporarily converted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… established in 1872, and Pritchett & Webley's glove factory at Newland, which replaced earlier premises in the … on the Leys' western edge, and Walker and Son's blanket factory at the Crofts, south of Corn Street. The former, … War was further extended and developed into a major repair factory, with new hangars and workshops; it remained an …