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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is not entered regularly, but the membership, of men and women, seems to have remained fairly constant. Thus in 1453 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of £5,901. In 1904 there were 1,304 members, 376 of them women. During 1912, 15,636 books were issued from the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… reformer and philanthropist. 66 Other notable men and women connected with the town are Jane Stuart (d. 1745), said …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… among the poor. Six neat almshouses for aged and unmarried women were erected in 1828, by Mr. Townsend; and there are …
A History of the County of Oxford
… family, built a row of almshouses at Newland for six women inmates in 1827, besides financing a new … case on its merits; though preference was given to Witney women they considered applications from Oxford and elsewhere … in bread and beef on Christmas Day to 40 poor men and women named by the town feoffees; with 10 s. for a sermon in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… prompted a strike at Smith and Philips's in 1970, when women workers claimed loss of earnings caused by introduction … people from the Witney area, including several hundred women engaged in both clerical and production work. Many … 350; Looker's glove factory employed 30 cutters and 100 women outworkers, and the West London Optical and Tool …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reckoned that one pack (240 lbs.) would employ up to 35 women and girls a week in carding and spinning, with others … seems never to have included more than half a dozen women at any one time. 122 The number of wage-earning … and other fabrics, with cotton and velvet caps, gloves and women's mittens (including women's kid gloves), ribbons, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… over 5 per cent. Fourteen per cent, mostly but not all women, were domestic servants in private houses or inns, and comparable numbers of women supplemented family income as dress- or bonnet-makers, … employed 144 people, 28 of them children and 16 of them women. 21 Smaller firms continued to be taken over: Thomas …
A History of the County of Oxford
… over a thousand in 1937, when most of the 400 weavers were women, many of them from outside the town. 5 By then Witney … presumably other firms, together with special rates for women undertaking men's jobs, who received half the standard …
A History of the County of Oxford
… twelve weekly boys at 5 s. a quarter, and girls or 'young women that may be willing to improve their learning'; the …