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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Yvonne Donnellon on Wednesday 31 July 24 15:52 BST (UK)
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Hi guys, any idea? Labourer in ????
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Delft is all can see?
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Delft is all can see?
could be it, there was brick making in the family?
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Open Delf is earthenware
Delft is from Delft in Holland, blue and white. They make tiles and all things clay and mixes.
People do call crockery Delft.
Maggsie
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A delf or delph was a quarry, probably for clay. There are a number of place-names around Sheffield, where they would have quarried, for pottery and also ganister for furnace linings. Also the name delves.
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A delf or delph was a quarry, probably for clay. There are a number of place-names around Sheffield, where they would have quarried, for pottery and also ganister for furnace linings. Also the name delves.
There were quarries for clay and sandstone in Liverpool, so this could be the answer, thanks :)
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There was also a pottery, can’t remember the name properly,began with H,maybe Herculaneum , at Toxteth.
Not well known nowadays ,
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Viktoria.
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Check the rest of the page and pages either side. Usually many people in the one area worked in the same place. One of the other entries may be clearer.
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A delf or delph was a quarry, probably for clay. There are a number of place-names around Sheffield, where they would have quarried, for pottery and also ganister for furnace linings. Also the name delves.
Agree, I see delp
delph relating to mining or quarrying, but usually underground.
Can be spelt delf in documents.
See delph mine entrance
It could be clay, but any mineral material
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Glossary of Mining Terms Used in the mid 1800s
Delf or Delph
https://www.genuki.org.uk/files/eng/LAN/Haydock/MINEGLOS.txt
Example in the link - seam of coal in a mine.
Can be clay or other mined mineral.