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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… damask, diaper, sacking, cotton-hosiery, carpets, hats, boots, and shoes; and about 200 hands are employed in three …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… damask, diaper, sacking, cotton-hosiery, carpets, hats, boots, and shoes; and about 200 hands are employed in three …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of women with bundles of match boxes, men with baskets of boots or rolls of cloth, barrows with furniture, hawkers with …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was usually carried on at home; the rivetting of boots, largely for working-class children, was concentrated …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… shoes, 11 pairs of 'little' shoes, and three pairs of boots in his shop, a stock which suggests a considerable …
Old and New London
… his room, where he must lodge that night, Pull'd off his boots, and took away the light; If any ask for him, it shall …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… used, for example, to polish and to colour articles like BOOTs and FIRE GRATEs and as the colouring agent in the BLACK … BASIN, BASKET, BAYS, BEAM, BIRCH, BOMBAZINE, BONE, BONNET, BOOTS, BOTTLE, BOTTOM, BRASS WIRE, BREECHES, BUCKLE, BUCKRAM, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Cakes for 'making shining Liquid Blacking for Shoes or Boots 6d each' [Newspapers (1780)]. Some retailers even … Balls for making shining liquid blacking for Carriages, Boots, Shoes &c' [Newspapers (1790)]. It was a common … attached to the appearance of footwear, particularly BOOTS. Fashionable smarts had the use of the secret recipes …