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Jillie42
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Does anyone out there have any old photos of the railway works and of railway houses in The Little Streets?
Jillie
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Eaton (Woughton on the Green, Doncaster and N. London), Davis(Shinfield and London), Harrington (Ireland and London), Sutcliffe (Todmorden and London), Williams, Hollingsworth (Thaxted), Lane (Rotherhithe), Fuller (Chesterton, Cambs), Dilley (who knows where?  ) |
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behindthefrogs
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I have a couple of very poor photocopies of the photographs of the original Wolverton railway houses.
These were taken from
Railway Architecture by Marcus Binney & Edward Pearce
Otis Publications Ltd 1979
ISBN 0 85613 269 1
and another from
The Buckinghamshire Landscape by Michael Reed
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 0 340 19044 2
If you can't get copies through the library lending service then PM me with an email address and I will try to scan them.
I also have my fathers apprentice piece which is a copy of an early plan for the layout of the lines etc. for the works.
David
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Living in Berkshire. Origin Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES CAN BE FOUND IN SURNAME INTERESTS AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Williams, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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tazzie
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Hi Shaun....
There is still a Stratford Rd that is the main road past the railway works. So possible it was called Stratford St at one time . It runs the length on Woverton from New Bradwell to Stony Stratford.
The old site is currently being re-developed with the old yards being turned into residential areas. They are trying to preserve the old buildings but the have been targets for vandals over many years. We wait to see how well they do.
Tazzie
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Liscoe -all Green/Simpson/Underwood-Beds Walker/Foulkes/Fookes/Fooks/Hedges/Lamborne-Bucks. Stanton/Pattrick/Cooper/Fitzjohn/Holland/Spalding-London Rewallin/Underwood -Devon Casbolt-London/Cambridge Favell/Favel - Lincs-Beds This information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Henry7
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There are some small photos of houses in the "Little Streets" of Wolverton (Creed St, Church St, Ledsam St etc) on p125 of the book "The Railwaymen - Wolverton" by the late Bill West (1987), and another of Ledsam St on p28 of "Locomotives of the LNWR Southern Division" by Harry Jack (2001).
Both books, and Bill West's other books "The Trainmakers" (1982) and "The Moving Force" (1988) contain pictures of the old Wolverton railway works.
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Henry7
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Shaun -
Interesting that your ancestor Edwin Bradbury worked at Wolverton Works. The boss of that establishment from 1847 to 1862 was J E McConnell, whose mother was Elizabeth Bradbury from Manchester. She married McConnell's father at Cork in 1813; they then lived at Fermoy.
The name Bradbury may be only a coincidence of course. Or maybe not?
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Henry7
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No, Shaun, 'fraid not!
When McC resigned from the railway in 1862 he went into private practice as a consulting engineer (and country gent). He moved from Wolverton Park to 'The Woodlands' at Great Missenden, where he died in 1883.
He had fingers in lots of pies, and was able to place men in jobs on various railways as far away as Australia, so it wouldn't surprise me if he had some 'pull' with the Northern Counties in Ireland - and. if he had a relation, could get him a job with them. But I don't know anything about Eliz Bradbury except that she came from Manchester, and I think, lived with her son after he moved to Wolverton.
McC was born in Fermoy, Co Cork, but his father came from Ayrshire, Scotland, although they had a lot of family connections with Ulster.
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