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A History of the County of Middlesex
… & Keeves were wholesale hardware manufacturers by 1934 and brush makers by 1952. 37 Iron foundries existed in Ann Street … Dorell Glass Co. in Marian Place was a manufacturer. 5 A brush manufacturer employed 10 men near Cheshire Street 6 and … a warehouse, rebuilding the factory in 1877. 8 Still a brush factory in 1942, 9 it made bed springs by 1950. 10 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… its accoutrements. Blacking was applied with a blacking BRUSH, an example of the increased specialisation of …
A New History of London
… The house where the fire began being full of faggots and brush-wood, the fire raged with great fury, and spreading …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… only once in the Dictionary Archive among the stock of a BRUSH maker [Inventories (1772)]. He had BROOM heads ranging … the leaves of the FLAG iris, and of HAIR, of which this brush maker had only a few. He also had '6 Gross of Broom … type of broom would have been made in the same way as a BRUSH. Not found in the OED online Found in units of DOZEN …
Brightwell Baldwin
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… an oak pole and hop poles worth 175., and a parcel of brush faggots valued at 1. 5 A tailor died c.1582, 6 and a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to a considerable extent in private houses: the making of brush-stocks and hoops at present furnishes employment to …