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Offline sallyyorks

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Re: "laborer in colorworks"
« Reply #9 on: Friday 31 January 14 22:41 GMT (UK) »
In textile  dyeing it's called the Drug Room, not colour works; a drug room man weighs out  the colour ingredients for use in the dyeing processes, under the direction of the colour mixer, master dyer, foreman dyer, or chemist, and performs other duties in the drug room e.g. mixing, dissolving.  http://www.rootschat.com/links/0xvi/
If you go to Historical Directories http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp and search for colour works, you get Directories 1 to 10 of 79 found for colour works Location=all Decade=all

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I was just thinking it might be mill work. I haven't seen any mill dye work written as "drug" room or "drug" labourer. I have only ever seen it written as "dye works labourer" or "dyer" or "dyer in mill" that type of thing. That's why i was wondering if it is in a northern mill town or city, because " dye works" occupations are quite common in the mill districts.
I have seen "dye works" on the census a few times for mill work

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Re: "laborer in colorworks"
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 01 February 14 09:39 GMT (UK) »
The accepted term in the 19th Cent. apparently is Colour Shop, not Drug Room. In a paper on textile workers in Accrington, by W Turner, he says that the unskilled workers are mostly described as 'labourer at colour shop' ........... http://www.rootschat.com/links/0xvn/
In the 1881 Instructions to the clerks employed in classifying the occupations and ages of the people, Order 17  Sub-Order 3 Cotton and Flax, there are Colour Shop; Mordant maker, Colour mixer, Drug keeper. Dye House; Fixer, Dunger, Washer, Dyer. http://www.rootschat.com/links/0xvm/
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Re: "laborer in colorworks"
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 02 February 14 13:26 GMT (UK) »
My labourer in the colorworks was living in West Drayton London in 1891
Millson & Johnson - Bradfield, Berks.  Vine & Butcher - Norfolk. Haines & Collier - Oxfordshire/Berkshire. Duffin & Wynn - Tilehurst, Berkshire

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Re: "laborer in colorworks"
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 02 February 14 13:34 GMT (UK) »
Wilkinson, Heywood & Clark, Lim. varnish, japan, color & paint manufrs. 7 Caledonian rd. N; varnish works, West Drayton, Middlesex.
Post Office London Directory, 1899. [Part 4: Trades & Professional Directory]

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Re: "laborer in colorworks"
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 02 February 14 13:53 GMT (UK) »
There are 'chemical works' shown at http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=506500,179975 on the 1914 and earlier maps which might be the varnish works.

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