cloth-hall

Stewart Morrison when he was in the mill was in it from top to bottom, from carder to spinner and weaver, from wool-sorter to cloth-hall inspector, to make sure that the manufacturing principles for which All-Wool Morrison stood were carried out to the last detail.

All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900

Old Henry Dow, the overseer of the cloth-hall, was a Lancashire man and some of his grandchildren had risen to wealth and prominence in another part of the country, while he kept steadily on with his familiar work and authority.

A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

Where a man had a large household of children and several of these were old enough to be at work, and to put aside their wages or pay for their board; where such a man was of a thrifty and saving turn and a ruler of his household like old James Dow in the cloth-hall, he might feel sure of a comfortable hoard and be fearless of a rainy day.

A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

The Staple-Hall or Wool Staple (now called the Cour de Guise) built by letters-patent from Richard II., dated 1389, was a singular combination of palace and market, exchequer and cloth-hall; the seat alike of royalty and trade; for here our English monarchs often lodged, and within these precincts our ancestors established their seat of custom, beneath the royal eye and roof-tree.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 Various 1836

For the Victorians, it was the uncomplicated, pre-industrial, anti-urban Middle Ages that provided comfort - which is why, after all, St Pancras is built like a medieval cloth-hall and

Evening Standard - Home 2009

The cloth-market held in cloth-hall at Leeds is chiefly to be admired, as a prodigy of its kind, and perhaps not to be equalled in the v/orld.

A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... 1778

(cloth-hall) is simply a large house, with spacious chambers, containing supplies of cloth.

Visit to Iceland Ida Pfeiffer 1827

"She is a good girl and she has the very nice job in the cloth-hall of the big Haxton mill.

The Landloper Holman Day 1900

I inspect in the cloth-hall because I have sharp eyes and nimble fingers. "

The Landloper Holman Day 1900