What is recorded here

This blue commemorative plaque records: William Smith 1815-1875 blanket manufacturer, founder of the steam-powered Bridge Street Mill lived in this house next to his mill c.1850-1875 Recorded plaque organisation: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, West Oxfordshire District Council.

William Smith was a prominent 19th-century industrialist who revolutionized blanket manufacturing through mechanization at his steam-powered Bridge Street Mill, significantly contributing to the Industrial Revolution in textiles.

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