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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… nigh Ouse Bridge, Agent for John Devenport & Co.; printed paper available for room hanging. [York app. reg. and freemen … 1812 and 1830. Yates, Thomas, Manchester, u, cm, paper hanging warehouseman (181134). Addresses given at 21 … had been in Norwich, then the main furniture making town in East Anglia, as in an advertisement of 21 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the Grand Junction canal runs upon its borders. Lace-making employs some of the inhabitants. There is a place of … is agricultural; the females are employed in pillow-lace making. The village was nearly all burnt down in 1813. … roads; and many of the poorer inhabitants are employed in making gloves. A fair is held on the 26th of August, for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… together with the ditch and rampart has been destroyed in making or widening the road. The making of the road on the N.E. has also destroyed and defaced …
A History of the County of Sussex
… tea lawn with lily pool. 76 They remained notable in 1995, making ingenious use of the small site. A manor at BILSHAM … and piano teacher. After 1922 Albert James ran a business making toy motor cars. 90 There was a builder in 1845 and … finance was received from school pence, the vicar making up the shortfall. 65 By 1874-5 there was also a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 'a yard-wide GOWN' where a length of fabric suitable for making a gown was being described. An earlier equivalent is … COVERLET yarn, or as 'for BLANKETs', 'Grogram yarn for making TAPESTRY', for KNITting, and 'COARSE for SACKs'. It … alcoholic fermentation. It is best to use the froth in the making of beer, but the sediment is satisfactory for making …
A History of the County of Oxford
… A. Evans, 'Yarnton Yesterday and Today', Yarnton Quarterly Paper, xi: copy in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. c 317/15. O.R.O., MS. … 2. Evans, Yarnton and Its Story, 5; Yarnton Quarterly Paper, xxxv; Guide to Manchester Ch. Congress (1908), p. 168; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but no services; the croft may well have been ½ yardland, making the total holding of the halfyardlanders 1 hide. There … A. Evans, 'Yarnton Yesterday and Today', Yarnton Quarterly Paper, ix: copy in Bodl. Per. G.A. Oxon. 8°779. Wood's City …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Schs. H.C. 178, p. 36 (1906), lxxxviii. Yarnton Quarterly Paper, vi. Inf. from Oxon. C.C. Educ. Cttee. O.R.O., Misc. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… river navigation, were misused by the owner of Wolvercote paper mill: the river level was kept permanently high, so … A. Evans, 'Yarnton Yesterday and Today', Yarnton Quarterly Paper, xvi: copy in Bodl. Per. G.A. Oxon. 8°779. e.g. Ch. Ch. … Yarnton b 7, chwdns' accts. 1610-1740. Yarnton Quarterly Paper, v. O.R.O., Dash. XV/i/24. Act for Confirming a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… part of the parish, and the clay is well adapted for making tiles for roofing and draining, for which purpose the …