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Topic: Derby Railway Coachworks from 1870's (Read 208 times)
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masgrace
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Are there any employee lists available?
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Mark
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suzard
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I don't know about employee lists, but would this be the carriage and Wagon works Longbridge lane?
Suz
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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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masgrace
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Suzard- This would be my understanding, although I am not familiar with Derby geographically. I think it opened in the 1850's. My ancestor arrived sometime in the 1870's.
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suzard
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The works no longer exist - the area was flattened 10 plus years ago. It was a huge complex, had its own sportsgounds, social club (with ballroom) - I will be seeing someone at the weekend who has an interest in the history of the Works, I will see if he has any knowledge of the wherabouts of employee records
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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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redshank
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I have a family where 3 of the 4 sons were employed in the coach building 'industry' in Derby - one as a coach painter (I have his Indentures of Apprenticeship to Ann, Herbert and Alfred HOLMES, Coach Manufacturers, in 1836), another as a coach trimmer and the third as an upholsterer. I had always thought they were involved in the manufacture of coaches as in 'horse-drawn carriages' but this has got me wondering. They all had their occupation by 1841 - is it likely they were building railway coaches?
John
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Kirkland in Derbyshire and Leeds; Francis, Elson, Coxon, Tempest, Wheeldon and Barker in Derbyshire; Cawood/Coward, Richmond, Brier/Brear, (H)Akins, Winterbottom, Nicholson, Mellor, Noble, Atkinson, Moor(e), Sloan(e), Tyson, Amos and Cooper in Yorkshire; Goddard/Godarth in Devon, 17th Regiment and Yorkshire; Hodgkinson and Shrimpton in Bucks; Clewley in Oxfordshire. Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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meles
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Railway coaches are called coaches because they were built on the same principles as road coaches.
So your ancestors, John, at the beginning of the railway age, might have built road coaches or rail - or indeed both as they diversified.
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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk Harrison: London; Pollock Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk Rogers: London; Bartlett: London Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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