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A History of the County of Oxford
… 98, 105; Witney Ct. Bks. pp. xxviii, 204. Plummer, Witney Blanket Ind. 13. R. Blome, Britannia (1673), 187. ORO, Cal. … (1993), pp. 29, 49; Par. Colln. iii. 342. Plummer, Witney Blanket Ind. 13. Par. Colln. iii. 342; Univ. Brit. Dir. [ c. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 14941509, 600; Witney Ct. Bks. p. lii. Below (cloth and blanket ind. to 1711). …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The blanket industry remained dominant, its success in adapting … accounting for the town's continued prosperity: in 1851 blanket-workers still comprised almost 19 per cent of the … commercial depression', thanks primarily to the thriving blanket industry; new industries were being attracted, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century Witney's economy remained chiefly dependent on the blanket industry and to a lesser extent on glove manufacture, … and 1930s, but, apart from piecemeal modernization in the blanket industry, there were few structural changes before … significant part of its female labour, particularly in the blanket factories and laundries, drawn from surrounding …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at Woodgreen opened in the 1860s. 15 In the late 1830s the blanket-maker John Early claimed that the town's moral tone … (d. 1874), born in 1815 to a relatively humble family of blanket-workers, may have been typical. Having learned … prompted fierce public criticism from the Nonconformist blanket-maker Robert Collier for enforcing Anglican worship …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the … 1782, and 1818. 42 By the mid 17th century, as the town's blanket industry developed, 43 the parish's total adult … 48 Despite recession and unemployment in the dominant blanket industry during the late 18th and early 19th century, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a bed) where a householder died in 1663, 82 and in 1684 a blanket-maker's ground-floor room with two beds was described … principally dyers, coal merchants, and farmers rather than blanket makers. 109 Other developments were apparently … off the west end of Corn Street, owned in 1815 by the blanket-maker John Brookes and not yet built up, had by 1840 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… secured economic self-regulation through the newly founded Blanket Weavers' Company. 22 By then, however, vestry … the 1870s to 1890s or later, and in 1896 a room in the Blanket Hall was rented as an office for the surveyor. 100 … of whom served several terms, while later members included blanket-manufacturers such as the Smiths and Marriotts, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… included, from 1795, members of the Dolley family, local blanket-makers, by 1818 Charles Henderson, bailiff of Witney … retired bookseller, who in 1905 was succeeded there by the blanket-manufacturer J. F. Marriott (d. 1929), owner of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century included prosperous clothiers, master weavers, blanket-makers, fullers, maltsters, and other leading … trustees included several prominent Witney clothiers, blanket-makers, drapers, and other tradesmen, at least one of whom (the blanket-maker John Baughan) served as town bailiff, 40 while …