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A History of the County of Oxford
… 8 Feb. 1938. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 1710, faculty for electric light. Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1939). Mins. of Aston …
A History of the County of Oxford
… An organ, by Henry Jones of London, was installed in 1867. Electric light was introduced in 1948, and a major renovation …
A History of the County of Oxford
… towards lighting the church apparently with oil lamps; electric lighting was installed in 1934. 78 Early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… before 1939, and electricity, supplied by the Wessex Electric Co., was introduced c. 1934; street lighting was by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the north-west corner of the church was made in 1948. 271 Electric light replaced the earlier gas lighting in 1903. In … were installed in place of the earlier Gurney stoves and electric heating. 272 The first organ, built by Jones of … gift of John, Earl of Shrewsbury, was replaced in 1933. Electric light was installed in the 1920s. The Bath stone …
A History of the County of Oxford
… British Cinemas in 1938; it closed in 1961. 200 The Grand Cinema opened c. 1918 and became part of A.B.C. in 1938. It … closed in 1968 and reopened as a bingo club. 201 A third cinema, the Regal, opened after 1945; in 1956 it was taken … Essoldo group and renamed the Essoldo. 202 It was still a cinema in 1969. Bear-baiting was probably once put on in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Neithrop, and 9 in Grimsbury. 364 As an experiment the electric company agreed in 1904 to light for 60 two lamps in … but in 1906 gas lighting was restored to these places. 365 Electric lights replaced gas lights around the cross in 1930, … over by the Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Staffordshire Electric Power Co. 377 The Banbury electricity station was …