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A History of the County of Oxford
… exported abroad. 24 Wesley Barrell expanded its furniture manufacture from the early 1960s, acquiring a national …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century, following an apparent acceleration in local cloth manufacture from the 1460s, 16 Witney was attracting wool … to trading in unfinished cloth and perhaps involvement in manufacture. 22 Emmot's eldest son Richard Wenman (d. 1534), … and master weavers more directly involved in local manufacture. 24 Probably the last prominent Stapler was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wool merchants and fulling mills, 12 suggest early textile manufacture and a dependent clothing trade (mercers, drapers, … in trade at Witney's market and fairs and in local cloth manufacture. Market and fair tolls, already variable during … or contraction should probably not be exaggerated. Textile-manufacture and trade in wool evidently continued, albeit at …
A History of the County of Oxford
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the blanket industry and to a lesser extent on glove manufacture, and seems generally to have thrived despite a … selling bedding and blankets but known later for furniture manufacture, was established by Thomas Wesley Barrell in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… industrial and market town primarily reliant on blanket-manufacture into a larger commercial centre with a diverse …