Researching Railway Workers (General)

by m p griffiths , Thursday, September 13, 2012, 19:51 (4457 days ago) @ unknown

If you go into Duncan & Mandy's website (Wiltshire)

http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/index.asp

And find Swindon

Swindon Index

there are many photographs of the GWR works in Swindon (where I and many generations of my and my husband's family worked)

Remember the Hooter? - Swindon Web

www.swindonweb.com/index.asp?m=8&s=116&ss=338.

This was a very important time piece for any-one who worked in the railways at Swindon - I knew when riding my bike - how far I was off the Works, and whether faster peddling was necessary - think it blasted out over the town every 5 minutes - both morning and afternoon. Different lengths of blasting as to how long you had left.....

My Grandad (on my mother's side) came from Blakeney and was an Upholster. My x Grandad on my father's side was a boilermaker (a job that made most men deaf because of the hammering) as where a lot of his brothers (the family moved from one railway County to another and children were born all over the place )

When you visit Swindon Railway Museum - some of the old workshops are now a large shopping complex - which is also very interesting.

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