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A History of the County of Oxford
… there were few structural changes before the Second World War, when one or two manufacturing firms moved to Witney … 6 capacity remained broadly similar after the Second World War when the main firms operated 475 looms with 322 weavers, … essentially family firms until after the Second World War. 13 A fourth company, James Walker and Sons Ltd of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1953, following rapid urban growth since the Second World War, the town's schools were further expanded and … under the 1944 Education Act. After the Second World War the school was again judged unsatisfactory, its buildings …
A History of the County of Oxford
… suburban expansion occurred only after the Second World War with the arrival of major new industries. 276 Building … Century Housing and Slum Clearance After the First World War the urban district council undertook intensive … significant new industrial sites before the Second World War were the Witney Blanket Company's Buttercross Works on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… detail. In Witney, as elsewhere, the First World War checked all private house-building. Housing shortages … Though no council housing had been built before the war under the limited powers then available, thereafter the … opening of the Witney railway. To celebrate the end of the Crimean War in 1856 a committee was formed 'of a greater part …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 130 people in 1911, but closed during the First World War and was sold in 1922. 228 Public Health and Public …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Family banners and armour in the chapel survived Civil War mutilation but were removed by workmen around 1840, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… among some of the population, while in the Civil War, despite the presence of Puritan lecturers and of some … 23643. Above, churches. Above, intro. (social life: Civil War). Calamy Revised, ed. A. G. Matthews, 342; R. Mayo, Life … Bks. refs. at p. 217. Above, intro. (social life: Civil War); churches. Below (Indeps.; Quakers). Compton Census, ed. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1915 at No. 1 Church Green, and during the First World War masses were celebrated in the former workhouse chapel for Portuguese prisoners of war helping to construct Witney aerodrome. 12 A Roman …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… style recently added by Sir W. Chaytor. In the great civil war it was held by Sir William d'Arcy for the king, and was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of persons slain near the spot in a skirmish during the war of the seventeenth century. In the parish are many …