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A History of the County of Oxford
… all children learnt to read and girls were also taught knitting and sewing. Children generally stayed at school …
Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with water. Several of the females are employed in knitting white-yarn stockings. The market, granted in 1331, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… seems to have declined still further in the early 1830s. Knitting was said to be 'obsolete' and only enough hands were … a workhouse was opened where the poor were employed at knitting and spinning. It stood in Silver Street between …