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A History of the County of Oxford
… raisins, sugar, spices, salt, soap, tobacco, aniseed, and gunpowder. 23 Thomas Sparrow (d. 1678), mercer, who sold a … former cockpit in Rectory Lane 57 which remained a glove factory until the 20th century. William Ryman, the largest … gloves. 65 In 1889 66 a London company, Pullman's, built a factory at Hensington, at first called the Woodstock Glove …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Street, remembered as a laundry and later used as a glove factory, may have been built as a schoolroom. 74 A Roman …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1873 Benjamin Disraeli inspected schools and a glove factory. 14 In the mid 19th century, when fairs had largely …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Cone Mill was then used as a laundry until c. 1945. The factory chimneys were dismantled in the 1940s and the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… like the river to provide water for the Royal Ordnance Factory in Puriton parish. 10 The southern part lies between … slightly fell to 296 in 1931. The building of the ordnance factory estate led to a dramatic rise to 1,082 in 1951 and … of the village to house workers at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Puriton. By October 1942 177 pre-cast, concrete …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… carried on, though not so extensively as formerly; and a factory for imitation Leghorn hats gives employment to …
A History of the County of Essex
… some on a small industrial estate at Fordham. 23 In 1995 a factory on the airfield site employed 60 people producing …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the largest being Beecham Pharmaceuticals, whose chemical factory on the Broadwater trading estate was opened in 1960. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1909; 13 in 1957 the building was sold for use as a factory. 14 The New Street chapel on the corner of Graham …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… becoming more important and, after the Allscott sugar factory opened in 1927, sugar beet became the preponderant … quarrying began east of Leaton. 22 There was a fertilizer factory south of Allscott from 1870 or earlier until c. 1958 …