Search
A History of the County of Oxford
… were let for a total of 16 13 s. 4 d., rising by 1213 to 18. 2 The number of mills varied with the fortunes of the … s. 8 d., increased by the 1330s and until the Black Death to 14 13 s. 4 d. after Waleys fulling mill had been rebuilt; … sold to John and J. W. Clinch; in 1829 J. W. Clinch was admitted to the copyhold. 41 Part of 'late Palmer's mill', …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1940s the urban district council acknowledged the need to improve infrastructure and attract new industries if … prompted a strike at Smith and Philips's in 1970, when women workers claimed loss of earnings caused by introduction … in several towns and cities. 25 Successful smaller companies included specialist engineering firms, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: economic life 1500 to 1800 ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century … reckoned that one pack (240 lbs.) would employ up to 35 women and girls a week in carding and spinning, with others … seems never to have included more than half a dozen women at any one time. 122 The number of wage-earning …
A History of the County of Oxford
… industry remained dominant, its success in adapting to new conditions largely accounting for the town's continued … over 5 per cent. Fourteen per cent, mostly but not all women, were domestic servants in private houses or inns, and comparable numbers of women supplemented family income as dress- or bonnet-makers, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… remained chiefly dependent on the blanket industry and to a lesser extent on glove manufacture, and seems generally … over a thousand in 1937, when most of the 400 weavers were women, many of them from outside the town. 5 By then Witney … unit. 12 All three firms became private limited companies by 1910, though they remained essentially family …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Education EDUCATION Provision To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in … no pupils who could not already read fluently were to be admitted. The staff was to comprise a master and an usher, … twelve weekly boys at 5 s. a quarter, and girls or 'young women that may be willing to improve their learning'; the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its population rising from under 4,000 in the 1930s to over 20,000 by the end of the 20th century. 2 The ancient … from its area in the later Middle Ages. It was increased to 378 a. in 1898, when adjoining built-up areas were … Midlands, principally for import of coal and salt; both companies offered preferential rates for coal passing through …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the name Crundell (later Corn) Street referred probably to quarries immediately west of the borough; manorial and … doing so in 1595, as was Anne Pettie, one of the richest women in the town, in 1622. 70 It is not clear why appraisers … the work is done'. The blanket-maker John Early (d. 1877) admitted threatening drunken workers with dismissal, but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited goods usually … Like its predecessor it negotiated contracts with local companies for street lighting, and for gas and (later) … 159 Inmates, chiefly vagrants, petty criminals, and 'lewd women', seldom numbered more than four or five, and came from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group seem to have been associated with the cloth industry and to have … boosted by Americans from Brize Norton airbase. Women deacons were nominated by the 1940s, and in 1969 a … the Briscoe family of Alvescot and Lew. Separate men's and women's meetings were held throughout. 83 During the earlier …