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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

Samuel Allam

From Graces Guide

d.1785

of Spalding, a carpenter

1767 Brought in by John Grundy as surveyor on the Driffield Navigation

1770 After the Navigation opened, moved to another Grundy scheme, the Cherry Cobb embankment

1772 Surveyor on the Market Weighton Drainage and Navigation Scheme

1785 Made plans for the Beverley and Skidby Drainage


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Sources of Information


  • A biographical dictionary of civil engineers in Great Britain and Ireland By A. W. Skempton