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• Luton
  ...luton/0.local/hat_plaiting.htm|publisher=Luton Libraries|work=Plaiting and Straw Hat Making|title=A history hat making in Luton|accessdate=2008-06-18}}</ref
  14 KB (2,215 words) - 12:51, 27 January 2016
• Rousay
  ...s and shopkeepers, with women doing dressmaking and [[Straw Plaiting|straw plaiting]]. Throughout the century, Rousay's landlords demanded high rents from crof
  6 KB (981 words) - 22:11, 31 July 2021
• Hemel Hempstead
  ...19th century, Hemel was a noted brickmaking, paper manufacturing and straw-plaiting centre. In later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Hemel was also a
  28 KB (4,392 words) - 11:47, 13 November 2020
• Rushden, Hertfordshire
  ...commodate large families and cottage industries such as spinning and straw-plaiting.
  8 KB (1,396 words) - 23:13, 4 November 2012
• Clare, Suffolk
  ...ustry was gone by the 1800s; the last weaver died in 1825, aged 83. Straw-plaiting for ladies' bonnets, a local cottage industry, disappeared as fashions chan
  21 KB (3,534 words) - 22:35, 30 April 2018
• Clifton, Bedfordshire
  ...school was a "Straw Plait School" where children were expected to learn to straw plait from as young as 4 years of age. They would also be taught to read.
  3 KB (452 words) - 12:50, 27 January 2016
• Houghton Regis
  ...the farmers also would suffer, as they now obtained good prices for their straw, and English wool not being suitable for hatmaking, they would not be in an
  5 KB (749 words) - 22:08, 27 July 2014
• Maulden
  ...r days, many of the women of Maulden were employed in lacemaking and straw plaiting. There were some sandstone quarries. A pleasure fair was held in the week
  4 KB (613 words) - 20:37, 21 July 2014
• Angle
  ...d that 388 people lived in the village with the women involved in plaiting straw for bonnets and mats, whilst the men would trawl for oysters when they were
  12 KB (2,029 words) - 12:06, 18 November 2014
• Hawridge
  ...gh meant that employment for villagers was often of a casual nature. Straw plaiting was the chief occupation of women and children during most of the 19th cent ...Lord of the Manor. Before this the only education available was from the 'straw-plait' school, which were a common feature of villages in this part of the
  20 KB (3,206 words) - 09:50, 27 October 2022