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A History of the County of Stafford
… manor and its history is treated in the Burton article. 9 INDUSTRY A quarry mentioned in a tithe dispute of 1219 was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Harecroft House, Wisbech. Relics of the Parson Drove woad industry, with paintings and a descriptive account, are …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… born deformed with only one arm, by his diligence and industry amassed a considerable fortune. He attributed this …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 23,316 loads in 1932. 34 The expansion of the brickmaking industry at Peterborough and elsewhere in the East Midlands … loads of aspen logs for the local 'chip' fruit-basket industry. Personal observation. Four vessels were cleared …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… poor families paying no rent, and was called a 'house of industry', but it was never a workhouse in the proper sense. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of "the Master, Assistants, Wardens, and Commonalty of Blanket-Weavers inhabiting in Witney, in the county of … over the registration-district of Witney. A handsome blanket-hall was erected in 1721: the town-hall is a neat … the same benefactor erected almshouses for six widows of blanket-weavers, and assigned to them land worth 85 a year. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Curbridge, with preference given to widows of clothiers or blanket-makers. 6 The houses, to include an upper and lower … be at least 50 years old, with preference still given to blanket-workers, but were chosen irrespective of their … a new Congregationalist chapel and endowing clothing or blanket charities. 8 By his will (dated 1827) the almshouses …