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A History of the County of Oxford
… seriously, slowing but not reversing its industrial and commercial development. 2 The break with the town's pre-War … Eagle Brewery, too small to compete with the large commercial breweries emerging in the 1950s, suffered serious … industrial development in the 1950s, along with proposed commercial and shopping development east of High Street. By …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by 1820 the number had fallen to little over twenty. 172 Commercial malting was undertaken both by innkeepers and by …
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 … business was judged to be sound despite the 'prevalent commercial depression', thanks primarily to the thriving … or nine in the 1850s, 59 some of them relatively large commercial brewers supplying several houses. Clinch's Eagle …
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 … boarders in two private boarding schools. Below (grammar sch.; private schs.). Oxf. Jnl. Synopsis, 23 July 1786; Rep. … Following account based on Fleming, Witney Grammar Sch.; cf. also VCH Oxon. i. 47882. Fleming, Witney Grammar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the chief commercial, industrial and residential centre of west … Witney's transformation into a much larger industrial and commercial centre led to substantial immigration: by 1951 … building during the 19th century, embracing industrial and commercial premises, public buildings, and a few large houses …
A History of the County of Oxford
… be exaggerated its emergence as a major manufacturing and commercial town, with an economy based primarily but not … with clear social ranking and precedence based largely on commercial wealth and prestige. At a vestry in 1663 the vicar … n. 406; below, protestant nonconf. Fleming, Witney Grammar Sch. 2831. Plummer, Witney Blanket Ind. 178; W. H. Summers, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… amenities, pressing for development of new shopping and commercial facilities east of High Street, and in the 1990s …
A History of the County of Essex
… 406/104 (vol. xxiii). V.C.H. Essex, ii. 398. Pigot & Co.'s Commercial Dir. (1832), 722. H. Benham, Once upon a Tide, … Wivenhoe U.D.C. Mins. 1916-19, p. 373. Pigot & Co.'s Commercial Dir. (1832), 721. E.R.O., D/DU 225/54; ibid. D/P …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Return of Income and Expenditure for every Public Elem. Sch. 1875-6 [C. 1882], pp. 216-17, H.C. (1877), lxvii. …