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A History of the County of Oxford
… members in 1803 and 260 or more in 181315. 58 The glove industry suffered a recession in the 1820s but the rise in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… been raised c. 1670 and was obstructing barges. 20 OTHER INDUSTRY AND TRADE. The River Severn provided the parish with … regularly to Bristol with market goods, and a 50-ton sloop, the 'Forester', was built at Woolaston, presumably at … but some of the buildings remain. Evidence of the iron industry is afforded by the discovery of medieval iron ore …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and coins are thought to have been part of a salt-making industry. 1 Woolavington village forms a grid at the junction … of the village until the First World War. 1 TRADE AND INDUSTRY Building stone was dug in the east field in the 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fashionable tourists provided a ready market; the gloving industry survived in Woodstock and surrounding villages into …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of garden and pleasure ground is attached. The House of Industry, an extensive brick building to the east of the … when the free grammar school was broken up; a school of industry was established in 1816, for thirty girls, and …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… humbly sheweth unto your worships that hee is a man by his industry and hard labour hath built an house fitt and …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… lived in honest repute amongst his neiboures and by his industry and care mainetained his wife and children suiteable …
A History of the County of Essex
… that Worm- ingford was involved in the north Essex cloth industry. 14 Brickmaking was recorded south of the Mere in …