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- noun Plural form of
bleachfield .
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An online project has made available the 1842 second report of the Children's Employment Commission: the voices of children as young as five working in paper mills, iron foundries, bleachfields, potteries and factories are vividly revealed in transcripts of interviews for the second report of the Children's Employment Commission.
The historic heart of conservatism Burke's Corner 2007
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An online project has made available the 1842 second report of the Children's Employment Commission: the voices of children as young as five working in paper mills, iron foundries, bleachfields, potteries and factories are vividly revealed in transcripts of interviews for the second report of the Children's Employment Commission.
Archive 2007-09-01 Burke's Corner 2007
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It is the principal seat of the linen trade in the county, and has extensive cloth and thread factories, bleachfields and chemical works.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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At Catrine are cotton factories and bleachfields, and at Ayr and
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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M.P. The manufacture of iron and steel, and the weaving of linen and other cloth, are the two principal industries; but there are also bleachfields, printfields, dyeworks, sawmills, cornmills and malt-houses; and the manufacture of glass, needles and wire is carried on.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Here are bleachfields, weaving lin - ens and cotton; threads for Nottingham.
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