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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… clothing and coals for the poor. In 1837 4 chaldrons of coal were distributed indiscriminately in quantities of one …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… vessels of 3 to 12 tons. They were used for the corn and coal trade by 7 owners employing 12 watermen. 5 In 1576 there … in the early 19th century were mainly corn and rape-seed. Coal was imported and, from 1824, timber. In the period of … In the early 19th century it carried some traffic in coal; 2,508 tons in 1838 and 29,562 ten years later after the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… even Sir Philip Vavasor 69 is a merchant, and trades in coal, firkin-butter &c.' The number and range of trades, …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… in Wistow. A track in the south-west of the parish called Coal Pit Lane had become overgrown with trees by the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… supplemented, in the late 19th century, by two coal charities. 23 Of those one was briefly combined with a coal benevolent fund, to which subscribers paid what they … the Freeland charities were still largely distributed in coal, bread, and beef, with a donation to the Witney Nursing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… such as the banker John Clinch (d. 1827), the dyers and coal merchants James and William Marriott, and, at Woodgreen, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… added significantly to transport costs and, by hindering coal-supply, delayed the adoption of steam power: such … 40 James Marriott (d. 1904), whose family worked as dyers, coal merchants, and farmers for much of the 19th century, … introduced power looms in 1858; 43 thereafter, with cheap coal available by rail from 1861, steam power became common. …