Old Wye Bridge Chepstow - Old books to read online (General)

by I Hickman, Thursday, March 20, 2014, 19:17 (3902 days ago) @ Jefff

Really great thanks, I so often find that Family and Local History can be a bit 'Send reinforcements'-ish, the only way is go back to the original sources if you can find them. We recently managed to trace a relative who reputedly died building the Severn Tunnel to find he died in an accident building a Railway Tunnel on the Derbyshire / Yorkshire borders, undoubtedly he worked on the Severn Tunnel also. Sad to find it, and also all the others who died in such endeavors but also nice to put him back properly into the family history.

I passed the link on to my wife who has also now joined. It will be interesting to see what links can be untangled from this.

As someone with an obvious interest in local Industrial History there has been something that has intrigued me a bit. I was the one that caused the British Museum records to be changed with this industrial token. I would love to know the real story. As there is such a great iron working tradition in the area have you any ideas where this should be attributed or is it just erroneous, what do you think?

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?...

http://www.mcsearch.info/record.html?id=140852&tab=4&thread=20