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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… member of Hoghton manor, and part of the inheritance of a co-heiress of the Alansons, who married Roger de Withnil or … was erected in 1683, and repaired in 1811. The parish is co-extensive with the manor, and comprises 7084 a. 35 p., of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… blanket making is not certain, but by 1830 John Early and Co. were established both at New Mill and at Witney Mill, the … 1830s, it remained divided until bought by Charles Early & Co. in the 1880s. In 1882 the firm renewed the lease of … at the end of the century. 64 By 1813 Messrs Hankins and Co. were lessees at 52 10 s. a year, increased before 1818 to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buttery, and Wm. Lark: cf. Acts of Court of the Mercers' Co. 14531527 (1936), ed. L. Lyell and F. D. Watney, 69, 122, … Makers, 3942; Thomas Empson was Master of the Blanket Co. in 1799: ORO, B1/BC/F/90. Young, Six Weeks Tour (1768), … 435. For London warehouses, above (Blanket Weavers' Co.). Plummer, Witney Blanket Ind. 29. Bailey's Brit. Dir. …
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
… John (d. 1862) from 1851 and operating as Charles Early & Co. from 1864, gradually expanded his business and premises, … from 1883, taking over the separate firm of Edward Early & Co. (with premises at New Mill and West End) in 1894, buying … 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
… 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 … Witney Grammar and Technical School became a fee-paying, co-educational secondary school taking pupils between the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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 … by the council from around 1913, gradually superseded gas, mains sewerage was improved and extended, and leisure …
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 universal improvement in domestic amenities (gas, water supply, electricity, and sanitation) during the … 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 … 70), roads, paving, and scavenging (685), lighting and gas (250), sewerage (54), and rents and general costs (85). … and Street Lighting The Witney Gas (later Gas and Coke) Co. built a gasworks east of High Street in the late 1830s, …