Progress Reports on the Timothy Hackworth Museum c 1975 by Jane Hackworth Young
Leave a Reply
Category Archives: Uncategorised
Letter from Jane Hackworth Young to Joan Hackworth Weir 2006
The Opening Ceremony of the Timothy Hackworth Museum 1975, with the Queen Mother.
This is the invitation to the opening ceremony of the Timothy Hackworth Museum, Shildon, 1975 for Joan Hackworth Weir and Margaret Weir, Joan’s daughter. It was attended by her Majesty Elizabeth, The Queen Mother on Thursday 17th July, 1975. VIP Party.
Some photos of Margaret and Joan Weir at the ceremony –
Joan Hackworth Weir
Joan in pink and Margaret in white – Ulick Loring on the left.
Joan and Margaret
Margaret Weir, daughter of Joan Hackworth Weir (nee Parsons)
(Above photos from Joan Hackworth Weir nee Parsons collection)
Margaret and Joan in the foreground and Jane Young
(Photo from Ulick Loring Collection)
Ulick Loring, Joan Hackworth Weir and Jane Hackworth Young.
Photo from Ulick Loring Collection.
Ulick Loring and Reginald and Jane Young.
Photo for the Ulick Loring Collection
Ulick Loring in the Timothy hackworth museum 1975.
From the Ulick Loring Collection.
Jane Hackworth Young in the Timothy Hackworth Museum 1975
From the Ulick Loring Collection.
Reginald and Jane Young at the Hackworth Museum.
John H Hackworth and Company 1893
John Hennon Hackworth (1843 – 1923) was the
fourth child of Thomas Hackworth (1797 – 1877) but his three eldest siblings all died as
children. (Thomas, of course, was the only (and younger) brother of Timothy Hackworth).
“This company was registered on December 16, with a capital of £15,000, in £10 shares, to adopt an agreement dated November 28, 1891, between the Machinery and Hardware Company, Limited, and J. H. Hackworth, f the first part, J. Altschul, of the second part, A. Whelan of the third part, E. Altschul of the fourth part, and A. Lawrence (for this company) of the fifth part, and to acquire and work inventions connected with disc tools.”
The full piece is on this website – Link to above page.
And on this site we read –
From this page here
And the link is –
London Gazette link – winding up machine Co 1894
The address is interesting – 46, Queen Victoria Street in London is somewhere in this pic from Google maps
But it looks like they moved from 147, Queen Victoria Street – which has been redeveloped since the 1890’s.
1885 Victoria Road Darlington is the road that leads to Darlington station and seems to be his home address but the letter doesn’t give a No. It looks like the 147, Queen Victoria Road, London was the firms base as early as 1885, from this patent letter.
Below – the above page split into two parts for ease of reading.
John Wesley Hackworth Patent 1887
And the other side of the page..
John Wesley Hackworth’s Reversing Gear in Model Engineer 1922
Loose Envelopes Separated from Contents
Letter from Sedgefield Council – Queen Mother’s Visit to Shildon 1975
Joan’s Receipt for Donating the Letter from George Stephenson to Timothy Hackworth
In 2005 Joan Hackworth Weir donated the important letter from George Stephenson to Timothy Hackworth date 25th July 1828 regarding the blast pipe, to the National Railway Museum.
Early Press Cutting on Timothy Hackworth
In this envelope I found this press cutting which is in 2 parts because it was too big for the scanner!
Hackworth Letters – Defending Timothy’s Claims
This envelope contained a press cutting and a copy John Wesley Hackworth’s tract about the ‘blast pipe’.
