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At the time of the First World War, Whittall was the largest employer in south Worcester, with 1,500 workers operating 350 mills in 500,000 square feet of factory space. The products he produced were purchased by the federal government for use in its buildings, and were selected by President William McKinley for use in the White House .
Founded by brothers, Duke and Stanley Goldberg, the first Rite Rug store was opened on the corner of Cherry and High Streets in Columbus, Ohio, in 1934. They primarily sold carpet flooring and rugs. In the 1960s, Rite Rug began expanding, opening a second store on E. Main Street and then a third store on Morse Road in Columbus.
St Lawrence Mill, a smock mill marked on the 1819-43 Ordnance Survey map that was burnt down on 15 May 1873. [4] The millers were Richard Fuller in 1845 and J Chantler in 1862. [ 6 ] This mill stood on or near the site of Canterbury's earliest recorded windmill, which stood at Little Foxmould in the Ridingate area.
The move in the weaving sector was later. By the 1820s, all cotton, wool, and worsted was spun in mills; but this yarn went to outworking weavers who continued to work in their own homes. A mill that specialized in weaving fabric was called a weaving shed.
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William Lefevre was born in Canterbury in 1847 and whose father was a grocer. After serving his apprenticeship with a draper in the Marylebone area of London, William returned to Canterbury in 1875 to open his own drapery business. [1] William's family followed suit by opening drapery and wool business' in other parts of the city.
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