Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Horace Allen

From Graces Guide

c.1858 Born in Hoxton

1881 Horace Allen 22, civil engineer, lived with his parents in Ulverston[1]

1884 Associate Member of Inst Civil Engineers

1886 Living in Barrow in Furness

1897 Business address: Leyton

1901 Horace Allen 42, civil engineer, lived in Fulham with Mary Jane Allen 42. Nora Allen 15, Mildred Allen 13[2]

1902 Presented a paper on a system for water-cooling blast furnace tuyeres, invented by W. J. Foster to the Iron and Steel Institute[3]

1905 Became an independent expert on the testing and installing of gas power plants of all sizes; office at Cheapside, London E.C.[4]

1911 Horace Allen 53, civil engineer, lived in Wednesbury with Norah Allen 24, Mildred Allen 23[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1881 census
  2. 1901 census
  3. The Times May 8, 1902
  4. The Engineer 1905/05/19 p508
  5. 1911 census