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A History of the County of Oxford
… in Minster Lovell parish soon after 1842 to set up urban factory workers on self-sufficient smallholdings; Fordwells, … Mill (in Asthall parish) was rebuilt as a blanket and mop factory about 1830 by the Witney blanket-manufacturer Robert … products. Little Clanfield Mill became a straw-rope factory in 1925 and continued until the 1970s. Other …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… and weeding in the late 1860s. Women and girls preferred factory work. Few cottagers had gardens but the Revd F. W. … by White's. 12 The horse tail hair, then from Siberia and China, was washed and disinfected, sorted into colours and … of hair, taken from the tails of live horses imported from China, limits fabric width to c. 2 ft. Short and waste hair …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… the Macmillan family, with entrance to the former Boyd's factory through the arch to the right. Ochiltree House was … premises even before the site was developed as the Ansford factory. 2 West of the town the very plain stone threebayed … replaced by commercial premises, which include White's factory on Bailey Hill and Stuckey's ashlarfaced bank, …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… he also rented the shambles. 2 In 1881 three weavers and a factory hand from Castle Cary were in the Wincanton …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… and Lower Woodcock Streets, including a former weaving factory, had been subdivided between six landlords and c. 37 … new dame schools opened in the early 1860s but the 1867 Factory Act led to an influx of child workers who attended …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… the former brewery was converted to a workshop. 72 The factory site was enlarged in the 1950s and 1960s 73 and new …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… halls, while coal mines flanked a newly built porcelain factory whose saggar works stood east of Darley. A few … interest in 1787. 57 The two- and three-storeyed Salopian China Manufactory, 58 was built south-west of Inett Farm, and … from Cardington as well as from the Lizard (Cornw.), and china clay was presumably also brought from Devon or …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… chamber to the gallarie: 6 peeces or a sute of China hangings of crimson and watchet satten painted and …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… discovery of a passage by the North West to Cathaya and China, etc; giving them licence to transport out of this …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… principal, a man of Encusen, that hath inhabited in the China of long time, is returned, and, as is thought, will …