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Messages - Anne Bryant

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Northumberland / Re: Enfield Manure Factory, Berwick
« on: Friday 19 September 14 08:47 BST (UK)  »
Hello, I live in Spittal, I am friends with a lady whose father was the last Ford foreman, she lived in Enfield Cottage, I have been researching the factories with her help. She thinks she knows your mother/grandmother and she knows which lady in the family moved to Wales. I don't wish to post her details on the internet.
Regards

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Northumberland / Re: Enfield Manure Factory, Berwick
« on: Monday 15 September 14 19:42 BST (UK)  »
The works were build in about 1870 and the first John Ford was Clerk of the works, I believe he was a joiner by trade. He lived in Enfield House that went with the job, the next John also lived there and the next generation down lived in Enfield Cottage over the road. The buildings are all still there and can be seen on Street View Site, East Street, Spittal. Also a warehouse. Not manure as we would call it now adays, it was a dry fertilizer. The factory used guano from Peru and Australia, fish and guts, blood from the local abbatories and seaweed, also crushed bones with steam driven equipment and minerals shipped in from all over the world.
Regards Anne

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