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A History of the County of Stafford
… middle-class houses were built along the Ashby road, and there has also been extensive 20thcentury council and private housing development in the south-eastern part of … cornice along the gables. Since 1933 it has been a freemasons' hall. 1 Smaller houses were also being built by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… were three ploughs on the demesne of Winstone in 1086 and eight servi were employed. 81 The amount under plough at … to one plough-land with 20 a. of wood, 5 a. of meadow, and 2 a. of pasture, 84 and remained as such throughout the … by a carpenter, a maltster, 17 and a blacksmith. 18 Carpenters were recorded in the parish from 1856 to 1910, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when in the settlement of a dispute between Bishop Hotham and Sir Geoffrey de Coleville over their manors of Wisbech and Walsoken, certain houses erected by the latter at his end … Grants of pontage were made to the bishop in 1327, 1328, and 1331. 56 References to bridges are frequent in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 79 A church, in Queen's Road, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Charles Borromeo, was built in 1854. 80 Gardner, Dir. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at … only other tradesmen mentioned in the Middle Ages besides carpenters 4 and smiths 5 were a weaver and a 'ripier' or … in 1724, 7 and the Richardson family of Hole Street were carpenters in the 18th and 19th centuries. 8 A joiner was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing … service trade was building, employing mostly masons and carpenters with a few plasterers, glaziers, and slaters. 205 … None were especially wealthy, though a few, particularly carpenters, owned property: in the late 16th century the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: medieval trade and industry ECONOMIC HISTORY Medieval Trade and Industry … (ironmongers and smiths), buildingwork (masons, carpenters, slaters, and plumbers), and victualling and food … while occasional references to tanners, butchers, masons, carpenters, and quarrying suggest that a range of trades …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's … included some thirty stonemasons and as many carpenters or joiners in the mid 19th century, with rather …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably … From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the … occupied by dyers, broadweavers, glovers, butchers, and carpenters, while some others were owned and possibly …