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A History of the County of Oxford
… crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts of smith, ironmonger, and plumber, the textile … and a potter. Evidence adduced for a substantial pottery industry in Woodstock is weak, 68 requiring the assumption … and there were 15 inns or alehouses. The building and metal trades were well represented, and there were 3 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Disraeli visited the duchess of Marlborough's school of industry, established before 1871 at no. 22 Park Street; in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reduced in the 5th duke's time (1817-40); the gloving industry, hardly mechanized until the later 19th century, … largely caused by foreign competition, affecting the industry nationally; above all the decline of coaching and … but many inhabitants were employed in the Oxford motor industry. 18 Suburban expansion, particularly in Hensington, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… members in 1803 and 260 or more in 181315. 58 The glove industry suffered a recession in the 1820s but the rise in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… cup and cover of 1576 were exchanged in 1867 for a plated metal chalice, paten, and flagon. 68 The registers begin in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… been raised c. 1670 and was obstructing barges. 20 OTHER INDUSTRY AND TRADE. The River Severn provided the parish with … but some of the buildings remain. Evidence of the iron industry is afforded by the discovery of medieval iron ore nodules on the shore near Woolaston Grange, from where metal is said to have been shipped, and by references to the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and coins are thought to have been part of a salt-making industry. 1 Woolavington village forms a grid at the junction … of the village until the First World War. 1 TRADE AND INDUSTRY Building stone was dug in the east field in the 17th …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the moulds at the time of pouring in the liquid metal, the establishment was removed to Woolwich, and placed … only, the largest of which will melt eighteen tons of metal at one time: to avoid all danger of explosion, the moulds are heated to a considerable degree before the metal is allowed to run into them. On the east of the foundry …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fashionable tourists provided a ready market; the gloving industry survived in Woodstock and surrounding villages into …