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A History of the County of Oxford
… or livestock, and the small Corn Street plots on which weavers' cottages were built in the 16th century had little … intro. (origins and devpt). Rep. Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Commissioners (Parl Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), p. 552. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the mid 18th century to the Collins family, local blanket weavers, 38 and in 1808 John Collier of Hatton Garden (Mdx.), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… than Banbury. 8 New building, much of it cottages for weavers and other small craftsmen, suggests an expanding … replaced by smaller but still wealthy clothiers and master weavers more directly involved in local manufacture. 24 … included quantities of cambric, dowlas, damask, silk, cheesecloth, and other fabrics, with cotton and velvet …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 1270s. 57 Surnames suggest the presence in the town of weavers, fullers, quilters, nappers, and dyers, 58 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the largely contemporaneous gathering of hand-loom weavers into factories, and the consequent replacement of large numbers of small master-weavers by a few dominant family firms with sufficient … among them Clappen and Co.'s tailors, drapers, and silk mercers. 55 There were a few booksellers, stationers, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… employed over a thousand in 1937, when most of the 400 weavers were women, many of them from outside the town. 5 By … World War when the main firms operated 475 looms with 322 weavers, 7 and presumably large numbers were employed in … 'Cotswold Woollen Ind.' 360. ORO, B1/PL/EB/2, summary of weavers employed Aug. 1949. Plummer and Early, Blanket …
A History of the County of Oxford
… endowed in 1724, catered expressly for sons of journeymen weavers and avoided exclusive Anglican links, while a growing … to education, particularly by the principal manufacturers: weavers were reported to be 'anxious for the education of … School A school to teach twelve sons of journeyman weavers reading, writing, and accounting, with a view to them …
A History of the County of Oxford
… later 16th century, most of them for small labourers' or weavers' cottages. In 1577 the bailiffs allowed a broadweaver … western part seems to have long remained a suburb of small weavers, craftsmen, and labourers, some of whom rented from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buswells Row or Lowell Place, including, besides blanket weavers, such skilled workers as two power-loom tuners, a … built or extended in 1825, 158 accommodated 52 hand-loom weavers in 1838. 159 A factory immediately west of No. 34 … presumably thronged with visitors. 285 A 'streamer of blue silk' with a golden lion, still owned by the town in 1570 but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… economic self-regulation through the newly founded Blanket Weavers' Company. 22 By then, however, vestry government was … inspectors, above (parish govt.). Rep. Assistant Hand-loom Weavers Commrs. (Parl. Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), pp. 5512; …