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A History of the County of Warwick
… had to be sold to meet the increased demand for loans. A peak of 16,930 was out on loan in 1931, and 15,460 in 1961 …
A History of the County of Warwick
… not only in the 14th and 15th centuries, when the peak of the city's prosperity was reached, but even in the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… popularity about 1885. Secondly the tricycle attained a peak of success in the early 1880s; and thirdly, in the … 9.6 per cent. in 1938, was 10.7 in 1946, and rose to a peak of 13.0 in 1950; Standard's, whose share had been 9 per …
A History of the County of Warwick
… at the Theatre Royal which appears to have reached the peak of its success in the 1850s. Then a critic once reported …
A History of the County of Warwick
… But the ribbon weaving itself had then passed its peak. The great increase in 1831 was not of weavers, whose … increase, to nearly 700 in 1774, 1,520 in 1793, and a peak of 4,660 in 1801. 33 The Foleshill rates were then …
A History of the County of Leicester
… of year than ever before. 107 The industry had reached the peak of its growth and was beginning to react to external … labour. A local estimate of the numbers out of work at the peak of the dispute was 22,000. 140 The affair cost the union … association had continued to decline from the war-time peak of 107 to 81 in 1928. This decline continued thoughout …
A History of the County of Leicester
… wages had declined since 1815, the year of the war-time peak of production. In 1841 William Biggs had estimated …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk