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A History of the County of Oxford
… 60 An apparently short-lived starch and hair-powder manufactory was set up in Aston by Joseph Williams in 1787, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… populous, had its origin in the establishment of a hat manufactory about 1790. Waterhouses is formed of a group of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… stiff cold clay and light sand. There is a silk and ribbon manufactory. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in … A paper-mill, by the side of a small stream, is the only manufactory. A pleasure-fair is held on the 29th of June. The …
Old and New London
… published by Bowles, in 1772, shows "The Bread and Butter Manufactory; or, the Humours of Bagnigge Wells." This plate, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… left £200 by will to employ the poor of Bampton 'in some manufactory'. 4 The interest was diverted to a proposed new … sold for c. £264, which was combined with c. £47 from a 'manufactory account' presumably representing the sacking …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Mary Croft's legacy (£5 8 s. a year), of Mary Dewe's manufactory charity (£20 a year), and of Susannah Frederick's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 272 In 161112 the corporation made a profit on the wool manufactory, spending 131 and receiving 144. The task of … in Banbury, but by 1894 little over one hundred. The tweed manufactory failed at Banbury and its closure in 1932 337 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for over a century and used part of the house as a woollen manufactory. Sir James Dashwood mortgaged his Calthorpe …