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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Gloucester's economic fortunes, to which the growth of the pinmaking industry and the establishment of the city as a … inland, a central position for road transport, its pinmaking and woolstapling industries, and, from the end of …
A History of the County of Essex
… mentioned above. A glover occurs in 1646. 268 About 1850 pinmaking was being carried on at Roper's Farm. 269 After the …