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A History of the County of Oxford
… and a potter. Evidence adduced for a substantial pottery industry in Woodstock is weak, 68 requiring the assumption … Wood and Robert Plot, aware of the important Oxford glove industry, made no reference to gloving in Woodstock, nor is … and style to gloves still made in the town. 66 The glove industry's decline in Oxford began in the later 17th century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Disraeli visited the duchess of Marlborough's school of industry, established before 1871 at no. 22 Park Street; in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reduced in the 5th duke's time (1817-40); the gloving industry, hardly mechanized until the later 19th century, … largely caused by foreign competition, affecting the industry nationally; above all the decline of coaching and … but many inhabitants were employed in the Oxford motor industry. 18 Suburban expansion, particularly in Hensington, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… schemes to employ the poor in silk winding or cloth and blanket weaving. 53 By the 18th century the corporation's … members in 1803 and 260 or more in 181315. 58 The glove industry suffered a recession in the 1820s but the rise in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… been raised c. 1670 and was obstructing barges. 20 OTHER INDUSTRY AND TRADE. The River Severn provided the parish with … but some of the buildings remain. Evidence of the iron industry is afforded by the discovery of medieval iron ore …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for social functions, and in the same year clothing and blanket clubs were established and a coal club was in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and coins are thought to have been part of a salt-making industry. 1 Woolavington village forms a grid at the junction … of the village until the First World War. 1 TRADE AND INDUSTRY Building stone was dug in the east field in the 17th …