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Renfrewshire / Re: Greenock-" the English invasion"
« on: Friday 18 September 09 19:04 BST (UK) »
Hi Linda
The Brooks came up from Woolwich in 1909, Frederick being an engineer who worked in there workshop in Woolwich was offered a post at the torpedo factory at Battery Park in management and in charge of all apprentices. There where apparently many Woolwich workers did come up to Greenock and they even had houses built for them and the area nick named the Woolwich Arsenal, they were, going from Gourock up the hill towards the hospital the roads leading of the Larkfield Road along to the end of them is where they were built, not sure if it was all the roads
but that’s where they were anyway.
Fredrick died in 1953 at 1 sharp street, Gourock. He did not go to Alexandra, I am not sure when the factory move.
Two of Fredrick’s children were born in England but the other four where born here
in Scotland, his eldest son George also worked at the factory but move back down to
Hatfield in England where George’s only surviving son still lives. Margaret Fredrick’s
oldest married a local plumber Charles Kerr, Margaret died 1984 in Greenock.
Are you yourself from this area or the woolwich area
Robin
The Brooks came up from Woolwich in 1909, Frederick being an engineer who worked in there workshop in Woolwich was offered a post at the torpedo factory at Battery Park in management and in charge of all apprentices. There where apparently many Woolwich workers did come up to Greenock and they even had houses built for them and the area nick named the Woolwich Arsenal, they were, going from Gourock up the hill towards the hospital the roads leading of the Larkfield Road along to the end of them is where they were built, not sure if it was all the roads
but that’s where they were anyway.
Fredrick died in 1953 at 1 sharp street, Gourock. He did not go to Alexandra, I am not sure when the factory move.
Two of Fredrick’s children were born in England but the other four where born here
in Scotland, his eldest son George also worked at the factory but move back down to
Hatfield in England where George’s only surviving son still lives. Margaret Fredrick’s
oldest married a local plumber Charles Kerr, Margaret died 1984 in Greenock.
Are you yourself from this area or the woolwich area
Robin