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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… supply of these manufactures are exceedingly numerous. The bleaching-trade in the vicinity of Nottingham is very …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… BIRMINGHAM. Later, when the value of sulphuric acid in bleaching was established, he moved to Preston Pans on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… cotton spinning and weaving, machine-making, ironfounding, bleaching, and logwood-grinding, in the year 1846, was 179; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Sons employ 250 hands; there are a cottonmill, and a small bleaching concern. The Sheffield and Manchester railway and …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… BEVERLEY PARKS c. 1980 1. Site of water mills 2. Site of bleaching yard 3. Former Victoria whiting works 4. Former … reflected the proximity of Beverley. By 1775 there was a bleaching yard near the Beverley-Hull road which was dealing …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… railway: in the village are a brewery, and a dye-house and bleaching-grounds. Fairs are held on 26th April and 26th …
Survey of London
… this time in the tenure of Widow Blunden and was used for bleaching cloth. The acre of land sold with it was still … 98, the grounds were used in the Commonwealth period for bleaching cloth. In February 1617/18 the steward and … p. 48). Because of the water and open space available the bleaching and fulling of cloth was carried out fairly …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… wheat, barley and oats. As in many neighbouring villages, bleaching seems to have been carried on here at one time, for …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… and a fulling-mill leased to George Flownders. 10 The bleaching industry flourished in Crathorne in the 18th and … 11 In 1808 there was an extensive bleach ground and two bleaching-mills, with the old flour-mill near by. The water for the bleaching-mill was brought from a fine chalybeate spring on …