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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to 20, are expended in the purchase of clothing for aged women: an annual sum of about 55, arising from bequests, is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was held between 1932 and 1937, 14 and a branch of the Women's Institute was formed in 1938 but suspended in 1981. … when there were a large number of admissions to tenements. Women were presented for failing to come to bean planting and … 3 In 1867 potatoes were an important crop, and women picked and sorted them as well as makeing hay, milking, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… label an article of APPAREL. It was a NECKERCHIEF worn by women in the second half of the seventeenth century. OED …
A History of the County of Hertford
… in agriculture. Straw hat-making is still carried on by women in the cottages, though the bulk of the work is done at …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… year a machine was employed to thresh oats and wheat, four women each planted c. 30 peck of beans, and the farm kept a … Some years only two people attended but by the 1920s when women were included there were six. In 1919 they refused to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in building walls, is found on Hadden Hill. Many of the women and children are employed in making fishing-nets. The …
A History of the County of Essex
… decrease was due mainly to an increase in the number of women recorded as working. A shoemaker's business recorded in … number of servants was 14 in 1891. In 1851 as many as 44 women worked as strawplaiters and 1 as a milliner or … of workers in White Colne had fallen to 13. In 1861 eleven women were 'tambour workers' or lace-makers, an industry …
A History of the County of Essex
… 6", Essex XVII. NW. (1881 edn.). Rep. Com. Children and Women in Agric. [4068-1], p. 158, H.C. (1867-8), xvii. … to Destruction, 193-4. Rep. Com. on Children and Women in Agric. 158; E.R.O., Acc. A9441 (uncat.): par. …
Old and New London
… covered with old boots and shoes; old clothes, both men's, women's, and children's; new lace, for edgings, and a variety … flaming tartanthese things, mixed with the hues of the women's garments, spotted and striped, certainly present a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of 1000 to be expended in clothes for 24 poor men and women. Whitfield (St. Mary) WHITFIELD ( St. Mary), a parish, …