{"id":16,"date":"2014-05-25T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:58:20","slug":"works-manager-soho-works-shildon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/2014\/05\/25\/works-manager-soho-works-shildon\/","title":{"rendered":"Works Manager – Soho Works, Shildon."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Return
\nto England<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

George Turner
\nSmith<\/b> gives an account in his book Thomas Hackworth, of what was happening at Shildon, after his return in
\n1837. <\/span><\/p>\n

George believes that a second
\nlocomotive had been built to go to Russia. 
\n<\/span>It was similar to <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

the Russian locomotive named \u2018Arrow\u2019.  <\/span>It was purchased by the S&DR Company, but
\nit had teething problems and Thomas Hackworth, who was the Manager at Soho
\nWorks, was blamed.  <\/span>The Directors of the
\nS&DR made things so difficult for Thomas that he decided in 1839 to leave.
\nHe set up his own business of Hackworth & Fossick at Norton near Stockton
\nand continued to build locomotives \u2013 the very first order came from the Directors
\nof the S&DR!  <\/span>He also engine steam
\nships, six of which took part in the American Civil war. Things were never
\nquite so good again for Timothy Hackworth.  <\/span><\/p>\n

George Smith<\/span> <\/b>says that John Wesley Hackworth continued to work for
\nthe family firm at Shildon, alongside <\/span>younger<\/span> <\/b>brother, <\/span>another Timothy<\/span>. <\/span> <\/span>However,
\nthings were not always cosy, \u201c<\/span>During the years 1840 \u2013 1850, with Timothy
\nHackworth at the helm, Soho Works struggled to survive. Timothy operated on the
\nmargins of profitability\u2026the situation at the <\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n


Soho Works deteriorated further when Timothy died in 1850.\u201d <\/i>John
\nhad taken care of routine operations of the work<\/span>. \u201cAfter Timothy\u2019s death,
\nthere was a bitter dispute between John and young Timothy <\/b>over
\nwhether to close the loss-making Soho works, or battle on and try and bring the
\ncompany back into profit.\u201d<\/i> <\/span> Thomas set up business with George Fossick. Their company, Fossick &
\nHackworth in Stockton built locomotives and carriages. (Photo of Thomas Hackworth<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

When John
\nreturned to England, love was on his mind too. He proposed to a young woman by
\nthe name of Jane Dunton from Newburn, near Newcastle, who turned him down in
\n1838. John eventually married Ann Turner, but the rejection affected him
\ndeeply. Luckily, there were no duels involved, his embracement of Russian
\nculture stopped short at the long Russian beard! (According to the 1851 census,
\nJohn was living at Shildon, aged 30, an engineer with his wife Ann and their
\nthree daughters, Joseph Salkeld (age 20) an apprentice, and a servant! <\/span><\/p>\n

After Timothy
\nHackworth\u2019s death, John moved to Darlington and started making stationary
\nengines and machinery at his premises John W. Hackworth of Darlington Engine
\nWorks, Priestgate, Darlington, Co Durham. <\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on Hackworth and Fossick see John Turner Smith’s excellent book <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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Return to England George Turner Smith gives an account in his book Thomas Hackworth, of what was happening at Shildon, after his return in 1837.  George believes that a second locomotive had been built to go to Russia.  It was similar to the Russian locomotive named \u2018Arrow\u2019.  It was purchased by the S&DR Company, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}