Joseph Wiles, Corn Merchant of St Albans

St Albans

I recently saw this document on sale on ebay, and was interested to discover why a St Albans corn merchant should have a London address. So I did a bit of research and find that Joseph Wiles made a useful contribution to life in Victorian St Albans and was the brother of E. S. Wiles, who had a suet making factory on Bernards Heath..

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Even an empty envelope can provide useful information

Ephemera

Just an old envelope - but what does it tell us? If you are going through old family records it is always worth pausing to think what such a "useless bit of paper" can tell you about the family before you consign it to the waste paper basket.

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