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History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… York. 1979 Pacific Island labour in the Queensland sugar industry, 1862-1906. Graves, A.A. D.Phil., Oxford. Supervised … 1974 Fitzgerald Report on the contribution of the mineral industry to Australian welfare. Burnside, Sarah E. M.Sc., … Taxation; Fitzgerald Report (1974); Australia; Mineral industry, in Australia; Mines, Mining, mineral, in Australia …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… early 18th century. 48 In the later 18th century the cloth industry was said to give employment to the lower classes. 49 … of Longfords in 1833. 52 In 1838 it was used in the cloth industry by the partnership of William Playne, John Wise, and … 60 No tradition exists connecting the mill with the cloth industry and it remained as a corn-mill in the later 19th …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… part appears to have been used for a while in the cloth industry, for in 1797 William Price held a grist mill and … 71 and a few men still used lave nets there in 1989. Other Industry and Trade. A salt pan, producing 30 packloads of … Apart from that connected with the river, the trade and industry of Awre parish was concentrated on Blakeney village, …
A Dictionary of London
… Ward. Founded 1544 by Mr. Christopher Ayre, merchant and leather-seller for six poor men and their wives. Left in trust to the Leather-sellers' Company. These almshouses formed originally …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… employs about 150 persons; and tanning and currying of leather is carried on, but on a limited scale. A spacious … annually several hundreds of pounds worth of very superior leather; and at Gunsgreen, is a distillery, yielding about …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… a short-lived deer farm. 9 TRADES AND SERVICES Crafts and Industry A glover had been in the parish 18 years by 1673, 10 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… a CART or other shafted HORSE-drawn vehicle. It is a broad LEATHER strap up to 7½ INCH wide [Inventories (1769)], or … described by CART, of ye best sort Found made of TANNED LEATHER Found in units of DOZEN Sources: Inventories … earliest date of use: 1789 Margaret Ponsonby Found made of LEATHER, MAHOGANY Found in units of PAIR See also BACKGAMMON …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Eyton in 1786, producing 20 s. per annum, paid by the Leather-sellers Company, of London; a gift of 25 by Kenric … elevations to the right. Ship-building and the tanning of leather are carried on, the latter to a considerable extent. …