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Thank you Deskman. I have not been able to open a private message. I do know he had contacts with Portland cement and lectured in various countries about his building methods. He built a pair of semi detached houses in Kent which I believe are listed. He was also invited to the opening of the Empire State Building in America but did not attend.
My family commitments will not allow me the time to delve into archives at this present time but I am interested to receive any snippets of information on Joseph and his family.

Hello. I came across this forum by chance. I am the great granddaughter of Joseph Tall. The information I have read seems to be correct. He did indeed invent shuttering for buildings and was affiliated to Portland cement although I am having trouble verifying that. At 15 years of age he opened his factory in what is now known as Borough in London. According to my mother he invented various things including a whistling kettle which he never patented. It appears that he was naive about such things. I would be very interested to receive any further information on him as my elderly mother is now having difficulty in remembering. She has passed to me a copy of his medal that he was awarded at the Science Exhibition in 1874. He pawned the original !