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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of columns, and cornices of white marble, numerous coins, domestic utensils, and other relics. Witcomb Parva WITCOMB …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… perhaps the earliest in Dorset, of the use of brickwork in domestic architecture. Architectural DescriptionThe S. front of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… though still commanding 70 per cent of the shrinking domestic blanket market, made a loss; attempts to capitalize …
A History of the County of Oxford
… duffields and blankets, some of them for sale on the domestic market; 43 by then, however, Witney manufacturers … complementing the more usual summer work geared to the domestic market. 46 Even so, the Witney industry seems to … practices were increasing and threatening foreign and domestic markets, petitioned for the right to form a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cent. Fourteen per cent, mostly but not all women, were domestic servants in private houses or inns, and comparable … lamplighter, and the postmaster, besides large numbers of domestic servants and over forty laundresses or washerwomen. … 103 Below (blanket ind. 18001900). The next largest were domestic servants (13 per cent) and leather workers (12 per …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Industries 190045 Except for a universal decline in domestic service, until the late 1930s the overall pattern of …