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A History of the County of Oxford
… with the cooperation of the Transport and General Workers' Union. New buildings allowed installation of new machinery …
A History of the County of Oxford
… formed in 1823 was evidently a benefit club rather than a union, and had apparently closed by 1838. 37 38. Witney … there were mentioned in the 1840s and 1850s, 69 and the Union quarry near Tower Hill, opened for building Witney … 213, f. 65 and v.; Select Cttee on Oxford and Gt. Western Union Railway Bill (Parl. Papers (HL) 18378 (227), xx), p. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… established with an imported workforce at the disused union workhouse just west of the town, made industrial …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it was claimed to be the only civil parish in the poor-law union where school fees were still charged, despite large … renamed Witney Methodist School following the Methodist union. The three senior classes suffered from 'severe …
A History of the County of Oxford
… St Mary's National school (1856) at Church Green, and the union workhouse (18356), just outside the town on Tower Hill. … architect William Wilkinson, a native of Witney. New Congregational and Methodist chapels were built on prominent … Canal, 11718; below. Select Cttee on Oxf. and Gt. Western Union Railway Bill (Parl. Papers (HL) 18378 (227), xx), p. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the north being converted into offices. 231 28. Witney union workhouse c. 1840. ( A. day rooms; B. probationary … enlargement to the south. On completion of the new union workhouse the old building became 'entirely useless' … Express, 6 July 1871. H. Cunliffe-Jones, Hist. Witney Congregational Church [ c. 1935], 1314: copy in COS; ORO, WCC …
A History of the County of Oxford
… relief, subsequently serving as chairman of the Witney Union board of guardians. 77 Some meetings in the 18th and … Law Amendment Act, Witney became the centre of a poor-law union of 42 parishes, responsibility for its own poor passing … No. 45 Corn Street, in the mid 20th century. 227 The new union workhouse on Tower Hill, built in 18356 with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and in 1807 it joined the Association of Baptist Congregational Churches, having agreed the previous year to … school outgrowing its accommodation, and a Christian Union of 26 members promoting cottage meetings at Hailey … meeting narrowly voted against the proposed Methodist union, but during the later 1920s a series of prominent …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Peter) WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 … WITTENHAM, LONG, or EARLS ( All Saints), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 … found. Wittering, East WITTERING, EAST, a parish, in the union of West Hampnett, hundred of Manhood, rape of …