tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post4700065646589595072..comments2023-10-28T14:06:38.160+01:00Comments on Hertfordshire Genealogy News: St Stephens Brickworks, Bricket WoodChris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-60519273528489550102012-02-06T09:38:38.946+00:002012-02-06T09:38:38.946+00:00I have updated the relevant page on the web site t...I have updated the relevant page on the web site to include a reference from 1856 to the location of any brickworks needed when building the railway,Chris Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-11455504413139822442012-02-06T06:50:31.690+00:002012-02-06T06:50:31.690+00:00Being a grocer and a brickmaker seems a bit odd - ...Being a grocer and a brickmaker seems a bit odd - but he is only described as a "foreman" so perhaps he didn't make bricks. <br />However I should not be surprised. The strangest combination of occupations I have found was a grocer who became a manufacturer of industrial grade flooring (he laid the flooring, still in place with his name recorded on small metal markers embedded in the floor 100 years later, of the pedestrian tunnel between the South Kensington Tube Station and the Natural History Museum) and ended up as a theatre manager. I am sure there were "business problems" and I suspect that his wife's family (who were well-to-do) bailed him out after each crisis.Chris Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-24868222022736636482012-02-06T06:44:37.798+00:002012-02-06T06:44:37.798+00:00Oldring is such an unusual name that George Oldrin...Oldring is such an unusual name that George Oldring born about 1845 at Kelsale Suffolk must surely be your man. 1861 a grocer Needham Suffolk; 1871 a grocer's assistant at High Street St Albans; 1881 a grocer in St Peter St Albans; 1891 grocer's assistant Hemel Hempstead; 1901 a bricklayer's labourer at Hemel Hempstead; 1911 jobbing gardener Hemel Hempstead; probably he died there in 1941. He is in the right place at the right time and clearly could turn his hand to more than one thing. Two sons on the Hemel Hempstead War Memorial. AnthonyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com