Hi fellow listers, At Christmas time some of you helped me find my HILL lines. Now I have another querry on the Worcester List . . . having already posted it to the Warwickshire List a few minutes ago Does any one know of this firm above: or about Steam Engines / Traction Rollers? My G Grandfather William Richard Hill owned a Traction Engine or Steam Roller. I'm not sure of it's exact name. On the right hand side of his Steam Roller / Traction engines that are joined together I can see 2 signs with his name and address attached: On the back engine atached to the big oval drum is a roof with a overhang that has his name: W R HILL WHITTINGTON WORCESTER and on the front engine attached to the back engine by a bar is a Square plate on the front right hand side of the engine with W R HILL WHITTINGTON WORCESTER with this firms inscription below on the side of the long big oval water tank barrel at the back called: EDWIN DANKS & C OLDBURY LTD BIRMINGHAM. Now as I'm no expert in these things can someone advise me where to look up to see if either of these names come up any where in any directory records. William Richard HILL was born 30th September 1884 @ 1 Osborne villa Barbourne, Rego district was Droitwich Sub district of Claines County of Worcester. No idea where this place is. Anybody know if it still exists? So any time after 1900 for him but the firm may have been going longer. Now I will head back to my sick bed and await any helpful replies tomorrow. THANK-YOU one and all. Your a great bunch. Kathy HILL Committee Member Welsh Interest Group Transcriber FREEBMD kathysrequests@post.com -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
Hi Kathy, I'm wondering if Edwin DANKS was any connection with the firm of COX & DANKS who were 'in the Oldbury area'. They bought the German Navy from the Official Receiver and Liquidator of The Great War... The Germans had sunk their fleet at Scapa Flow, and COX & DANKS raised most of the vessels - and cut them up as scrap... As for Osborne Villas, Claines, I don't know - but I suspect it's likely still standing. Any one of the "Littlebury's Worcester (Street) Directories" of the late 1880s and 1890s is likely to include it by name - but you'd probably need to read the whole thing clear through to find it! Claines is a Parish to the North of Worcester - with a fair chunk of it inside the City Boundary - yet was nonetheless in Droitwich Registration District. Whittington is just to the South-East of Worcester. Junction 7 on the M5 is in the Parish. HTH Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: Kathy Hill <kathys@post.com> To: <ENG-WORCESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 12:07 PM Subject: [WOR] EDWIN DANKS & C OLDBURY LTD BIRMINGHAM > > Hi fellow listers, > > At Christmas time some of you helped me find my HILL lines. > Now I have another querry on the Worcester List . . . having > already posted it to the Warwickshire List a few minutes ago > > Does any one know of this firm above: > or about Steam Engines / Traction Rollers? > > > My G Grandfather William Richard Hill owned a Traction Engine > or Steam Roller. I'm not sure of it's exact name. > > On the right hand side of his Steam Roller / Traction engines that are > joined together I can see 2 signs with his name and address attached: > > On the back engine atached to the big oval drum is a roof with a overhang > that has his name: W R HILL WHITTINGTON WORCESTER and on the front > engine attached to the back engine by a bar is a Square plate on the front > right hand side of the engine with > > W R HILL > WHITTINGTON > WORCESTER > > with this firms inscription below on the side of the long big oval water tank > barrel at the back called: > > EDWIN DANKS & C OLDBURY LTD BIRMINGHAM. > > Now as I'm no expert in these things can someone advise me where to look up > to see if either of these names come up any where in any directory records. > > William Richard HILL was born 30th September 1884 > @ 1 Osborne villa Barbourne, > Rego district was Droitwich Sub district of Claines County of Worcester. > > No idea where this place is. Anybody know if it still exists? > > So any time after 1900 for him but the firm may have been going longer. > > Now I will head back to my sick bed and await any helpful replies tomorrow. > > THANK-YOU one and all. Your a great bunch. > > Kathy HILL > Committee Member > Welsh Interest Group > Transcriber FREEBMD > > kathysrequests@post.com > > -- > ___________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com > http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm > > > > ==== ENG-WORCESTER Mailing List ==== > FreeREG Project: parish register database > http://freereg.rootsweb.com > > UK Census on-line > http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ > http://www.worcestershiresurnames.co.uk/ > >