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A History of the County of Somerset
… Evening classes included French, arithmetic, physiology, lacemaking, beekeeping, carving, and shorthand. Automobile …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and girls from eleven years old upwards were engaged in lacemaking was in itself a sign of poverty and of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to work as soon as possible, while their girls were sent lacemaking. 257 Even so, within 3 years another day school, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… and his son Amos were lacemerchants in Deanshanger. 27 Lacemaking survived in the village until about 1930; 28 the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… quarry, was not well received by the parish council. 18 Lacemaking. Paulerspury was one of the more important local centres of pillow lacemaking. There was a lace-buyer named Thomas Ratcliffe in … widow had no interest in continuing the business and lacemaking declined, for lack of a regular market. About the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… for the girls, who at the age of five were put to learn lacemaking at a private school where they were supposed also …
A History of the County of Northampton
… a teacher at the church school. 97 Both also taught lacemaking in the evenings. 98 In 1854, although not other …