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A History of the County of Oxford
… glove factory at Newland, rebuilt following a disastrous fire in 1926, continued until the late 1930s, when the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rebuilding. 208 Some rebuilding presumably followed a fire in 1734, said to have destroyed thirty houses in a few hours, but the fire's location is unknown and, though it was clearly … the west end of Corn Street in the early 1960s, with new fire, police, and ambulance stations, a library, and other …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with stone-slated roofs and wooden lintels to windows. A fire at New Mill in 1818 destroyed buildings already adapted … The latter was already a fulling mill when rebuilt after a fire in 1837; Woodford Mill, held as a fulling mill by the … Mill, may have been similar; apparently rebuilt after a fire of 1834, 165 it was remodelled in 1896 as a three-storey …
A History of the County of Oxford
… shambles, besides regular payments for maintenance of a fire-engine. 84 The vestry elected collectors of the poor for … other bodies during the earlier 20th century to provide fire-fighting, ambulance, and hospital provision, appointing … the 1930s electricity and water committees, a hospital and fire-brigade committee, a housing and public buildings …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for the roads. At Witton Park pit is a manufactory for fire-bricks and draining-tiles. There is railway …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This town, which, having suffered severely from fire in the year 1595, and again in 1724, is almost entirely … in the Tudor style, for supplying water in case of fire, erected at the expense of the late duke. The living is …
A History of the County of Essex
… Harvey's business never fully recovered from a disastrous fire in 1872. Between 1881 and 1888 the yard was occupied and …
A History of the County of Essex
… 78 PUBLIC SERVICES. An engine which may have been a parish fire engine attended a fire in 1774. 79 In 1904 the urban district council formed a fire brigade of eleven men, which at first stored its barrow, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… year 1727, after the destruction of an ancient mansion by fire, and completed in 1741, by Horatio, second Baron … 1590, when a considerable part of it was destroyed by a fire that continued burning for five days. In the …