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Survey of London
… purchasers of the lots: bricklayers, carpenters and shipwrights. They generally built single houses or pairs. … from Bow and the other lived in Essex. They included four shipwrights and a boat builder, three joiners, two clerks, a … 1820 the trustees were all Poplar men, five of them being shipwrights, one a joiner, another a baker, and one was …
Survey of London
… lots acquired by Thomas Garrett and William Morgan, both shipwrights of Cotton Street. 237 They were small houses …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… the Napoleonic Wars the industry grew and the number of shipwrights and carpenters recorded rose from one in 1802 to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of wood, and of mean appearance, are inhabited chiefly by shipwrights, and persons employed in the docks; they are …
Survey of London
… Seas. The prosperity of the yard was interrupted by the shipwrights' strike of 1825, but Sir Robert Wigram was … 145 His hopes were dashed in 1830, however, when another shipwrights' strike on the Thames brought the yard to a standstill for many months, until the shipwrights' union's demands for higher wages were conceded. …
Survey of London
… on the Thames. 56 Pepys also estimated that there were 598 shipwrights, 244 servants and 98 caulkers at work on the … and improvements. In August 1654 he leased to three shipwrights, Ralph Prickett, Thomas Coulson and John … variety of business partners in the yard All were working shipwrights, and no doubt partnership enabled Johnson to …
A New History of London
… the bill, signed by a great number of merchants, traders, shipwrights and others 59. The advocates for the bill pleaded …