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A History of the County of Oxford
… 43 men and 600 women, lived in Brook Hill on the later gas works site, but seems also to have worked in Old …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rent, and new items included, from 1853, payments to the gas company for street lighting, and in the 1880s payments … rent fell to only 50 by 1930, 47 excluding the rent of the gas works site which occupied a small area on the southern … as a rubbish tip, 49 and in the 1970s that part and the gas works site were built over. 50 In the 17th century and …