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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… born deformed with only one arm, by his diligence and industry amassed a considerable fortune. He attributed this …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 23,316 loads in 1932. 34 The expansion of the brickmaking industry at Peterborough and elsewhere in the East Midlands … loads of aspen logs for the local 'chip' fruit-basket industry. Personal observation. Four vessels were cleared …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… poor families paying no rent, and was called a 'house of industry', but it was never a workhouse in the proper sense. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of "the Master, Assistants, Wardens, and Commonalty of Blanket-Weavers inhabiting in Witney, in the county of … over the registration-district of Witney. A handsome blanket-hall was erected in 1721: the town-hall is a neat … the same benefactor erected almshouses for six widows of blanket-weavers, and assigned to them land worth 85 a year. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Curbridge, with preference given to widows of clothiers or blanket-makers. 6 The houses, to include an upper and lower … be at least 50 years old, with preference still given to blanket-workers, but were chosen irrespective of their … a new Congregationalist chapel and endowing clothing or blanket charities. 8 By his will (dated 1827) the almshouses …
A History of the County of Oxford
… worth 6 and malt worth 1 5 s., and in 1719 the wealthy blanket-maker John Wiggins had a ground of barley worth 18. 6 … in the face of opposition from local farmers. In 1838 the blanket-maker John Early claimed that 'most of the men' had … Local Hist. vol. 2, no. 3 (1985), 76; Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, 1502; PRO, HO 107/1731 (Hailey census, s.v. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of mills varied with the fortunes of the local cloth industry, 3 but all four sites were associated with cloth … succeeded in the main lease, perhaps in the 1820s, by the blanket manufacturer John Early, presumably John Early (d. 1862). When the corn mills were converted to blanket making is not certain, but by 1830 John Early and Co. …