HOGG family

workers

Found amongst their family archives - was this picture taken at Royal Arsenal circa 1916

Unnamed
Any one name the building and type of work?

taken from ...
http://www.clark-hogg-family-history.org/ch-gallery-hogg-royal-arsenal.htm




2014-02-24

Workers homes

A street being constructed for "Woolwich arsenal workers "

Do we know where and when ?

possibly Eltham or Welling or Abbey Wood

 

 

 

The War Illustrated magazine vol 3  {Old photos of London and the East End


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Illustrated



2014.02.23

1903 explosion (2)

Greenwich Industrial History

http://greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/explosions-at-woolwich-arsenal.html


2014-02-15

updated web site

see ...
http://www.royal-arsenal-history.com/


2014-02-15

Arsenal Railway

Transport

Train ready for a visit of King George V.

Mercury special edition "Connection" 1986


Is it ...

Crossness Engines

“Pompey” class 0-4-0ST (Kerr Stewart of Stoke on Trent )

2014-05-12
2012-02-14

SEWELL, WilliamThomas(1858-1920)

worker

SEWELL,  William aged 61years buried Plumstead Cemetery.
1920mar Woolwich 1D 1476

Three generations of my Sewell family have worked at the RA. My Grandfather, Thomas Edward Sewell (1885-1954) worked at the RA for over 50 years retiring in 1952. He was first a machinist, then an overlooker in the laboratory and finally worked in the storeroom. The house that my grandparents lived in at Eltham was one of many built to RA specifications before the First World War. It included a bathroom, range, scullery and garden with a green in the centre of the road between the houses for the children to play.

His father William Thomas Sewell (1858-1920) according to the census of 1871 at the age of 14 tears was a Cartridge Maker alongside his two elder brothers. John (Daniel John b.1850) age 20 was a labourer, while Alfred (William Alfred Jones b.1856) at 15 years was a Bullet Maker. William Thomas continued working at the RA as a labourer in the Laboratory until his death in 1920 at the age of 61 years. Their father, Jonathon William (1824-1881) had moved from Suffolk, where he was born, to the East End working as shipbuilder and engineering labourer. When the family moved south to Plumstead in the early 1860's he worked as a labourer at the RA.

Copied from …

http://www.sole.org.uk/royalars.htm

 

 

2014-02-14

The Jolly Boys

The Jolly Boys Concert Party - Royal Arsenal 1914-18

 

Thamesfacingeast  pic.twitter.com/AjJqEq8ijj

2014.02.09