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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… subscriptions to £10,000. In 1937 there were seventy-five beds at the Hospital, including twenty in a children's wing …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… 'The Dames', and Newton Meadow-and a small area of willow beds near the rivers. By 1670 there were only 7 families in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1960s, acquiring a national reputation for hand-crafted beds and other items; by the 1980s it had 150 employees in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Abingdon and Hungerford (both then in Berks.), Dunstable (Beds.), and Bridport (Dorset), while later 13th-century names …
A History of the County of Oxford
… manufactured specialist mattresses, quilts, and feather beds, and ran a successful blanket-cleaning service. 16 44. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were named, the latter was well furnished with two 'high' beds, a truckle bed (perhaps for a servant), a little … and in 1684 a blanket-maker's ground-floor room with two beds was described not as a parlour but as the 'lodging room below stairs'. 83 Parlours without beds appeared first in the houses of the lite. As early as …