Mineral water factory Speech House Hotel 1911 (General)
In the 1911 census,my grandfaher Frank King from Berkely Gloucestershire was staying at the Speech House hotel whilst working as a bottle washer in a mineral water factory. The head of the houshold George stjohn junior discribes himself as hotel keeper and mineral water manufacturer.
Can anyone shed light on this factory, was it close to the hotel? and are there any records of this enterprise?
thanks in anticpation
John h
Mineral Water Factories
by admin 
, Forest of Dean, Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 04:55 (5615 days ago) @ John H
Here are two references I can find to Mineral Water Factories in the area
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Kelly's Directory of Cinderford 1894
FORD John & Co., wine & spirit merchants & mineral water makers
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cbennett/cinderford1894.htm
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This factory was opened after the First World War.
At Upper Lydbrook a mineral-water factory opened by E. J. Flewelling, a builder, after the First World War ceased production c. 1970.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23267
Mineral water factory Speech House Hotel 1911
by m p griffiths 
, Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 08:38 (5615 days ago) @ John H
George St John's father is on the 1911 census - Thornbury age 60
On the 1901 census, George Snr. is living at The Speech House - (Monmouth West Dean, District 8, Page 30)
He is a Hotel Proprietor and Employer - born Hants, Lymington.
with his wife
Caroline - age 50, born Devon, Tiverton
Caroline - 26, born Notts, Southwell
Ethel - 15, born Staffs, Handsworth
Percy - 10 - born Staffs, Handsworth
plus 7 staff, Barmaids/Cooks/Waitress/Coachman/Labourer/Painter
George Junior c 1879 is not there (born Tiverton, Devon - 1881 census, George Snr was a School Teacher)
1891 Census, Handsworth, Staffs (family listed on Ancestry as JOHN)
District 6, Page 10
90 Boulton Road
George St - 40 - Schoolmaster
Caroline - 40 - Schoolmistress
Mabel - 15 Teacher
George 12
Ethel - 5
Reginald - 8 months
There are some of this St John family on the FOD records
George St John age 39 and a Batchelor (Civil Engineer) married Elsie COURTEEN 17 October 1917 (address Speech House)
Buried: 14 October 1931, age 53, Belle Vue Terrace, Skipton, Parish of Newland
His parents deaths (both living at the Speech House are listed also)
Caroline - 15 April 1914 age 63
George St John - 17 June 1916 age 65