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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Harecroft House, Wisbech. Relics of the Parson Drove woad industry, with paintings and a descriptive account, are …
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
… silver, 1761, a modern chalice, paten and flagon of plated metal by Cox & Son of Southampton. There are five bells in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… two patens and a flagon, all silver, 1862, a chalice of metal, and an almsdish of brass. The tower contains ten bells …
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 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 … apparent contraction in Witney's developing cloth industry. In the early 14th century Woodford and Waleys Mills …