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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… floors. Many signs of burning suggested destruction by fire. The few finds included coins of Tetricus I, Constantine …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for building the surviving mill after it was destroyed by fire in 1837. 67 Early remained lessee in 1863, paying 125 a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Refitting at Marriott's Mount Mills followed a serious fire in 1953. 9 The merger in 1960 of Early's and Marriott's, … Newland warehouse was sold in 1973, and demolished after a fire in 1975. 11 The new techniques, though commercially …
A History of the County of Oxford
… local cloth-workers for his innovations, and following a fire in 1818 John (d. 1862) and Edward Early (d. 1835) and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… glove factory at Newland, rebuilt following a disastrous fire in 1926, continued until the late 1930s, when the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rebuilding. 208 Some rebuilding presumably followed a fire in 1734, said to have destroyed thirty houses in a few hours, but the fire's location is unknown and, though it was clearly … the west end of Corn Street in the early 1960s, with new fire, police, and ambulance stations, a library, and other …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with stone-slated roofs and wooden lintels to windows. A fire at New Mill in 1818 destroyed buildings already adapted … The latter was already a fulling mill when rebuilt after a fire in 1837; Woodford Mill, held as a fulling mill by the … Mill, may have been similar; apparently rebuilt after a fire of 1834, 165 it was remodelled in 1896 as a three-storey …
A History of the County of Oxford
… shambles, besides regular payments for maintenance of a fire-engine. 84 The vestry elected collectors of the poor for … other bodies during the earlier 20th century to provide fire-fighting, ambulance, and hospital provision, appointing … the 1930s electricity and water committees, a hospital and fire-brigade committee, a housing and public buildings …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for the roads. At Witton Park pit is a manufactory for fire-bricks and draining-tiles. There is railway …