Witney Blanket Hall was built in 1721 by the Company of Blanket Makers. For over 120 years, every blanket woven in the town came to the Hall to be weighed and measured, and upstairs in the Great Room the Company set the rules for the trade.
After 1845 the mills established their own measuring and the redundant Blanket Hall became variously a brewery, a lemonade factory, engineering shop, office of births marriages and deaths, dance school, and latterly, a distinctive gentleman’s house. During most of its history, the Hall is also where many of the town’s public meetings took place, the death of Kings solemnly commemorated and the birth of princes celebrated with great feasts. In the 18th Century, the Hall even housed the town’s fire pump.
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Witney Blanket Hall was built in 1721 by the Company of Blanket Makers. For over 120 years, every blanket woven in the town came to the Hall to be weighed and measured, and upstairs in the Great Room the Company set the rules for the trade.
After 1845 the mills established their own measuring and the redundant Blanket Hall became variously a brewery, a lemonade factory, engineering shop, office of births marriages and deaths, dance school, and latterly, a distinctive gentleman’s house. During most of its history, the Hall is also where many of the town’s public meetings took place, the death of Kings solemnly commemorated and the birth of princes celebrated with great feasts. In the 18th Century, the Hall even housed the town’s fire pump.
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Witney Blanket Hall was built in 1721 by the Company of Blanket Makers. For over 120 years, every blanket woven in the town came to the Hall to be weighed and measured, and upstairs in the Great Room the Company set the rules for the trade.
After 1845 the mills established their own measuring and the redundant Blanket Hall became variously a brewery, a lemonade factory, engineering shop, office of births marriages and deaths, dance school, and latterly, a distinctive gentleman’s house. During most of its history, the Hall is also where many of the town’s public meetings took place, the death of Kings solemnly commemorated and the birth of princes celebrated with great feasts. In the 18th Century, the Hall even housed the town’s fire pump.
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Witney Blanket Hall was built in 1721 by the Company of Blanket Makers. For over 120 years, every blanket woven in the town came to the Hall to be weighed and measured, and upstairs in the Great Room the Company set the rules for the trade.
After 1845 the mills established their own measuring and the redundant Blanket Hall became variously a brewery, a lemonade factory, engineering shop, office of births marriages and deaths, dance school, and latterly, a distinctive gentleman’s house. During most of its history, the Hall is also where many of the town’s public meetings took place, the death of Kings solemnly commemorated and the birth of princes celebrated with great feasts. In the 18th Century, the Hall even housed the town’s fire pump.
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Witney Blanket Hall was built in 1721 by the Company of Blanket Makers. For over 120 years, every blanket woven in the town came to the Hall to be weighed and measured, and upstairs in the Great Room the Company set the rules for the trade.
After 1845 the mills established their own measuring and the redundant Blanket Hall became variously a brewery, a lemonade factory, engineering shop, office of births marriages and deaths, dance school, and latterly, a distinctive gentleman’s house. During most of its history, the Hall is also where many of the town’s public meetings took place, the death of Kings solemnly commemorated and the birth of princes celebrated with great feasts. In the 18th Century, the Hall even housed the town’s fire pump.
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