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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Villa, Compton Abdale (1). Foxcote Tumulus (SP 011172), a large round barrow excavated in 1863, is said to have yielded …
A History of the County of Oxford
… noted in the town in the mid 19th century, along with large numbers of agricultural and general labourers. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Smiths' of England, attracting both local employees and large numbers of incomers, began a fundamental and long-term … and often led, by planning decisions to promote large-scale housing development, partly to reduce growing … sold to allow further integration at Witney Mills, where large new offices and warehouses were erected; 10 the Newland …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and 1630s prominent Witney clothiers increasingly owned large quantities of blankets and blanket-yarn, 34 and in 1641 … by John Gay, implying that they were widely known. 39 In large part the industry's continuing success was due to … and the west of England, who were primarily traders and large employers of labour. 52 Prominent 16th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 44 probably then and certainly by the 1870s it included a large pleasure-fair, which continued in the early 21st …
A History of the County of Oxford
… introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The blanket industry … weavers into factories, and the consequent replacement of large numbers of small master-weavers by a few dominant family firms with sufficient capital. In large part such developments were a response to potentially …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20th century blanketmanufacture continued to employ large numbers: in 1900 there were around 250 looms and 800 … operated 475 looms with 322 weavers, 7 and presumably large numbers were employed in other processes. During the … in 1949; 10 in the mid 1920s Smith's merged with the large Manchester wholesalers J. & N. Philips to form a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… union where school fees were still charged, despite large government grants and assistance from the county … them appointed by Mary Box. Both 'out-town boarders' and large numbers of local boys were educated there 'to the great … the thriving Wesleyan school attracted pupils from the large and influential Dissenting population, and, unlike the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a large pre-Conquest estate. From the 17th century it became … boundary was adjusted to take in Woodgreen school. 30 Large industrial estates west of the town controversially … throughout the period, and in the late 1850s, when 'a large number' from the Witney area were 'anxious to avail …