Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Martin (Admin) on May 21, 2014, 11:27:24 am

Title: Grace's Guide to historical information
Post by: Martin (Admin) on May 21, 2014, 11:27:24 am

Interesting history site!

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page (http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 100,976 pages of information and 135,623 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them. Additions are being made to the information daily.

Title: Re: Grace's Guide to historical information
Post by: Neil on May 21, 2014, 11:57:05 am

Martin..........thank you very much for posting that link..............ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING............. and gawd only knows how long it took the compositors to put it together......a lifetimes work.

I found my granddad's old firm of Tweedales and Smalley of castleton, Rochdale almost immediately, and little snippets that he used to talk about his life, like the explosion there, have brought it all to life for me. He was in life a master cabinet maker and a Pattern maker for the company, and also a protected post whilst WW1 was on because of his work in ammunitions..........just amazing site......thank you

neil.

Title: Re: Grace's Guide to historical information
Post by: Brian60 on May 22, 2014, 04:50:03 pm

Thanks Martin. Now bookmarked in my history folder :-))