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Re: Clerk of Works
« Reply #9 on: Monday 29 May 17 13:21 BST (UK) »
I like it Rena! :)
Yorkshire : Readman, Martindale, Pickering, Pennock, Mayman, Tarbotton.
Northumberland : Readman, Chirnside, Douglas, Stephenson
Cumberland : Potts, Parkinson, Keenan, Dixon, Grears, Martin

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Re: Clerk of Works
« Reply #10 on: Monday 29 May 17 14:27 BST (UK) »
Your grandfather obviously stayed in the same industry all his working life, whether he had an apprenticeship in the beginning or not, he probably attended evening classes to gain his qualifications.  One of my father's older brothers was born the same year as your grandfather.  From a few stories I heard from my Dad about the 1920s-1930s, finding and/or keeping a job was in the lap of the gods.  As soon as their engineering apprenticeship five year term was up three of his brothers weren't taken on by the companies that trained them and they had to join the long "dole" queues until there was an upturn in the country's fortunes.  The 1914-1918 war had left Britain practically bankrupt and there was stagnation, which led to the big depression all around the modernised world, which officially started in 1929.   The north was particularly hard hit, for instance, my father-in-law's brother was in the Jarrow March down to London of 5–31 October 1936.

The war time prime minister Winston Churchill made a speech in March 1943 where he stated that there had been no planning for the aftermath of WWI and this wouldn't be happening again as a plan to keep the country working at the end of WWII had been devised.  (This was instigated by the famous Beverige Report which recommended that the government should find ways of fighting the five 'Giant Evils' of 'Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness')

 
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Clerk of Works
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 30 May 17 09:45 BST (UK) »
Thanks Rena, that helps me get some perspective. I've e-mailed the Institute of Clerk of Works in the faint hope I'll get some info on him. What I'd dearly like is that they have photo I.D. as I don't know what he looked like.
Yorkshire : Readman, Martindale, Pickering, Pennock, Mayman, Tarbotton.
Northumberland : Readman, Chirnside, Douglas, Stephenson
Cumberland : Potts, Parkinson, Keenan, Dixon, Grears, Martin

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Re: Clerk of Works
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 30 May 17 14:26 BST (UK) »
Thanks Rena, that helps me get some perspective. I've e-mailed the Institute of Clerk of Works in the faint hope I'll get some info on him. What I'd dearly like is that they have photo I.D. as I don't know what he looked like.

Personally, I think you'd have more of a chance of finding a photo of him in an official capacity of the town council, such as being handed a watch or clock for services rendered by the council, or amongst a council group in a street scene.  Have you searched for his name in GenesReunited newspaper articles - maybe there's a photo of him in a local newspaper, which is where I once found a photo of my father being presented with his 50 yr service watch by the company he worked for.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke


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Re: Clerk of Works
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 30 May 17 16:01 BST (UK) »
Unfortunately I'm not currently a subscriber to GenesReunited. I have looked at the newspapers on FindMyPast to no avail.
Yorkshire : Readman, Martindale, Pickering, Pennock, Mayman, Tarbotton.
Northumberland : Readman, Chirnside, Douglas, Stephenson
Cumberland : Potts, Parkinson, Keenan, Dixon, Grears, Martin

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Re: Clerk of Works
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 30 May 17 17:57 BST (UK) »
Unfortunately I'm not currently a subscriber to GenesReunited. I have looked at the newspapers on FindMyPast to no avail.

Oh, hard luck - I think they're mostly the same newspapers.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke