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A History of the County of Oxford
… iii. 342; Univ. Brit. Dir. [ c. 1790], iv. 806; Pinnock's Co. Histories (1819), 69; PO Dir. Oxon. (1847 and later …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estates acquired elsewhere, to supplement or consolidate commercial wealth: in the 14th century the Standlakes owned …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The blanket industry remained … John (d. 1862) from 1851 and operating as Charles Early & Co. from 1864, gradually expanded his business and premises, … Street before 1840; besides being ironmongers they were gas-fitters, bellhangers, locksmiths, and brass- and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and 800 workers, half of them employed by Charles Early & Co., and by 1922 there were over 1,000 workers and 400 looms. … 20th century steam- and waterpower was supplemented by gas engines and (at Mount Mills) by an oil engine, and from … considerable expansion of dyeing plants. 9 Charles Early & Co., William Smith & Co., and Marriott & Sons remained the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and elsewhere, the school failed to cater for a prosperous commercial and trading community with a strong Nonconformist … in 1902 the schools were accordingly united as the co-educational Witney Grammar and Technical School, and the … library. 49 After the building of a new Wesleyan chapel a co-educational day school, under consideration by 1849, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the chief commercial, industrial and residential centre of west … on three large mill complexes: Charles Early & Co.'s Witney Mills on Mill Street, William Smith & Co.'s … Brewery west of Church Green, established about 1839, a gas works east of High Street, established by 1840, Daniel …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an original feature, and all the Mill Street cottages had gas from the outset, part of a steady but by no means … be exaggerated its emergence as a major manufacturing and commercial town, with an economy based primarily but not … good, more often characterized by mutual tolerance and co-operation than by occasional disputes over education or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with local companies for street lighting, and for gas and (later) electricity supply; from the early 20th … amenities, pressing for development of new shopping and commercial facilities east of High Street, and in the 1990s … and Street Lighting The Witney Gas (later Gas and Coke) Co. built a gasworks east of High Street in the late 1830s, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Thornton family, of whom James left two daughters, who, as co-heiresses, conveyed it by marriage to the Trevelyans and …
A History of the County of Essex
… a voyage which led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Co. 99 He and others also built many ships for the navy, … providing related supplies and services. 11 G. Rennie & Co. of Greenwich joined with Forrestt at the upstream yard in … Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering and Dry Dock Co. Ltd. New machinery and plant was introduced and the …