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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… IRON, specially designed to fix pieces of wood together or metal to wood. Usually they are tapered screws with a deep … used for making tough, warm outer garments. The woollen industry was regarded traditionally as the most important of … is their function was the same, but the pan was made of metal, and the lead was a coopered vessel of wood. This …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and plantation in the parish. 24 Mills and the Cloth Industry. A mill was recorded at Woodchester in 1086. 25 The cloth industry appears to have been introduced by 1221 when Walter … 26 and in 1274 a fuller was recorded. 27 The cloth industry was subsequently the most important feature of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… 42 During the past forty years a small amount of light industry has grown up in what is essentially a dormitory …
A History of the County of Essex
… being held by Dissenters, but in 1801 two day schools of industry were founded, one attended by 20 boys and the other … opened in 1814. 4 This soon absorbed the boys school of industry. By 1818 attendance had fallen from 90 to 69 and … and only a little arithemetic. 5 The girls school of industry was probably absorbed a year or two before 1820, 6 …
A History of the County of Essex
… wooden frame and replaced with cement-rendered expanded metal after the frame had been moved a few yards northwards …