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Bath and West of England Society annual exhibition - exhibits: 'Albert Day, [[Mark Foundry]], Mark, Bridgwater, Somerset. — Double-roller apple mill, with stone rollers, haymaking machine, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor, gently raises and turns the hay without beating out the seeds ; Day's improved horse rake No. 1, collects the hay and clean rakes the ground by once going over it; Day's double cheese press, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor.' <ref>Western Gazette, 18 June 1864</ref> | Bath and West of England Society annual exhibition - exhibits: 'Albert Day, [[Mark Foundry]], Mark, Bridgwater, Somerset. — Double-roller apple mill, with stone rollers, haymaking machine, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor, gently raises and turns the hay without beating out the seeds ; Day's improved horse rake No. 1, collects the hay and clean rakes the ground by once going over it; Day's double cheese press, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor.' <ref>Western Gazette, 18 June 1864</ref> | ||
1893 'Mr. Albert Day, of Mark, one of the best known figures in agricultural engineering centres in the West of England, died on Monday aged 85.' <ref>Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 30 November 1893</ref> | |||
1893 '....A beautifully compiled memoir was read by the preacher the conclusion of the sermon, of which we submit the following:— "We do not know the date of the late Mr Day’s settlement in Mark. He served a long and hard apprenticeship as a blacksmith, at Pawlett, and entered into business for himself, first at Watchfield, from whence he removed, after a very little while, to Mark, somewhere about 55 years ago. Commencing as a country smith he developed, by his own genius and industry, the business in several branches, as carried on him until his death. ...'<ref> Weston-super-Mare Gazette, and General Advertiser - Saturday 9 December 1893 </ref> | 1893 '....A beautifully compiled memoir was read by the preacher the conclusion of the sermon, of which we submit the following:— "We do not know the date of the late Mr Day’s settlement in Mark. He served a long and hard apprenticeship as a blacksmith, at Pawlett, and entered into business for himself, first at Watchfield, from whence he removed, after a very little while, to Mark, somewhere about 55 years ago. Commencing as a country smith he developed, by his own genius and industry, the business in several branches, as carried on him until his death. ...'<ref> Weston-super-Mare Gazette, and General Advertiser - Saturday 9 December 1893 </ref> |
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Also Albert Day & Sons, of Mark Foundry, at Mark, near Highbridge, Somerset
Bath and West of England Society annual exhibition - exhibits: 'Albert Day, Mark Foundry, Mark, Bridgwater, Somerset. — Double-roller apple mill, with stone rollers, haymaking machine, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor, gently raises and turns the hay without beating out the seeds ; Day's improved horse rake No. 1, collects the hay and clean rakes the ground by once going over it; Day's double cheese press, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor.' [1]
1893 'Mr. Albert Day, of Mark, one of the best known figures in agricultural engineering centres in the West of England, died on Monday aged 85.' [2]
1893 '....A beautifully compiled memoir was read by the preacher the conclusion of the sermon, of which we submit the following:— "We do not know the date of the late Mr Day’s settlement in Mark. He served a long and hard apprenticeship as a blacksmith, at Pawlett, and entered into business for himself, first at Watchfield, from whence he removed, after a very little while, to Mark, somewhere about 55 years ago. Commencing as a country smith he developed, by his own genius and industry, the business in several branches, as carried on him until his death. ...'[3]
1909 Albert Day & Sons of Mark Foundry advertising dynamo and motor castings in special annealed grey iron, transformer cases, brackets, etc.[4]