Joseph Nowell and Sons
Between 1831 and 1846 the company worked on 10 new railway lines beginning with the [[St. Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway in 1831; had constructed 5 tunnels.
Constructed part of the London and Birmingham Railway. The difficulties in the Kilsby Tunnel put a number of contractors in financial problems, that were relieved by Robert Stephenson's arrangement with the directors that the railway company would take over the work[1].
1840 NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore existing between Joseph Nowell, John Willans Nowell, and Jonathan Willans Nowell, formerly of Dewsbury, in the county of York, and afterwards of Hatchend, in the township of Pinner, in the county of Middlesex, General Contractors for Public Works, under the firm of Joseph Nowell and Son, was dissolved, by the death of the said Joseph Nowell, on the 12th day of January 1836.[2]