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I am new to looking into my family history. How do you discover these newspaper articles ? What is your interest in Joseph Tall. I would love to share any knowledge about him.

Welcome to family history and RootsChat. I find that a good and expanding resource for British and its empire's newspaper articles is BNA, British Newspaper Archive. It is an online resouce that needs a subscription. Your public library may subscribe and allow you free access. I am not uncritical of it but it is the best British newspaper service with 43 million pages.

My interest in Joseph Tall is not a family connection but an interest in early Portland cement base concrete buildings. The Talls were very significant figures in the 1860s and 1870s.

I have sent you a pm (private message), please let me know if you can't see it.

Hello. I came across this forum by chance. I am the great granddaughter of Joseph Tall. The information I have read seems to be correct. He did indeed invent shuttering for buildings and was affiliated to Portland cement although I am having trouble verifying that. At 15 years of age he opened his factory in what is now known as Borough in London. According to my mother he invented various things including a whistling kettle which he never patented. It appears that he was naive about such things. I would be very interested to receive any further information on him as my elderly mother is now having difficulty in remembering. She has passed to me a copy of his medal that he was awarded at the Science Exhibition in 1874. He pawned the original !

It is wonderful to know you are there Quandery. I would be pleased to share what I know of Joseph and Joseph Mingay and keen to learn more. I will send you a pm

I know I've come late to this but I have a longstanding interest in the work of the Talls; father and son, both inventors.
Joseph Mingay Tall, son of Joseph Tall had 'Blackman Street' as an address for postal orders in the late 1877 & 1878 for his business in the arches at Borough Road Station.
See Northwich Guardian 3 November 1877 & Sporting Gazette 3 August 1878.
He seems to have moved to Mark Lane by the 1880s.

On 13 October 1927 architect Selwyn Hirst (married to Ada Felton Hirst (nee Leatherdale)), crossed the US Canada border at Bridgeburg. The Canadian Immigration Service monthly summary includes a record of this crossing.
In the bottom row of the extract two columns for him begin
Northern Ontario Building, Toronto
and
686 Academy Street, New York, N.Y.
"Wife"
The rest of the texts I struggle with.
The Northern Ontario Building, Toronto by the architects Chapman and Oxley was completed in 1925
Any help much appreciated.

Indeed Gadget,
The only dates I have are attached.
Could have been a farewell party, Primrose League garden fete, charity event...?