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A History of the County of Oxford
… taken from the Blanket Company seal, a glove to represent gloving, and a picture of the Butter Cross. The cost was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The house was briefly a police station from 1859 and gloving continued there later. 71 All three houses contain … In 1943 Dent 8 Allcroft bought the factory but ceased gloving soon after 1945. 1 Diston's cockpit, a large … by Richard Lay, glove manufacturer, tenant of no. 11, and gloving continued at no. 11 until the 1980s. 55 The building, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were few industrial buildings, since steel manufacture and gloving, Woodstock's chief 18th-century industries, were on a … and the malthouse range behind Hope House were used for gloving, but purpose-built factories were not introduced …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 56 Assertions about Woodstock's early importance as a gloving centre are unsubstantiated. A Woodstock glover was … the important Oxford glove industry, made no reference to gloving in Woodstock, nor is there evidence that in the 16th … and easier access to rural out-workers may have helped gloving there, although it is not known whether out-workers …
A History of the County of Oxford
… shopkeepers, and aiding the development of two industries, gloving and steel jewellery manufacture, for which the town … was severely reduced in the 5th duke's time (1817-40); the gloving industry, hardly mechanized until the later 19th … Although the opening of the railway caused some revival in gloving and tourism its impact was limited. By the 1930s …