{"id":5,"date":"2023-03-11T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:56:59","slug":"john-wesley-hackworth-1820-1891-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/2023\/03\/11\/john-wesley-hackworth-1820-1891-an-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wesley Hackworth 1820 – 1891 – An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n“I am just a poor boy<\/i><\/div>\n
\nThough my story’s seldom told”<\/i><\/div>\n
\nPaul Simon <\/b>– The Boxer.<\/div>\n
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\nJOHN WESLEY HACKWORTH 1820 – 1891<\/span><\/b>
\nEngineer, Inventor and a Son of Timothy Hackworth. <\/b>
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\nJohn Wesley Hackworth <\/b>was born at Walbottle, County Durham, on May 8th, 6.30pm, 1820 to Locomotive pioneer Timothy Hackworth<\/b> and Jane (Golightly) Hackworth. <\/b><\/div>\n
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John Wesley Hackworth says of himself<\/span> <\/b>
\n“I saw the Stockton and Darlington railway opened, was brought up upon it, knew every horse, and driver, every locomotive driver, and fireman, every director, nearly all the shareholders, and every noteworthy incident that occurred thereon for the first 20 years; and if any living man knows anything of its history, and working, I am the man!”<\/i>
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A rare photograph of John Wesley Hackworth 1820 – 1891 from the Joan Hackworth Weir Collection.<\/p>\n

NEW – click HERE to view a 3 part article on John Wesley Hackworth for the GLOBE – Journal of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.<\/p>\n

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Samuel Holmes – <\/b>a grandson of Timothy Hackworth <\/b>wrote, <\/b>in the 1920’s,
\n“It is hoped that Mr Albert Hackworth (the son of John Wesley Hackworth and grandson of Timothy Hackworth), who established the Worth Engineering works of Toronto, Canada, will write the interesting life and history of John Wesley Hackworth, which ought to be given to the world, as he has a great mass of papers, letters, and much detailed information bearing up on the subject.<\/i>“<\/p>\n

\nAlbert Hackworth<\/b> never got time to produce such a work on his father but Robert Young<\/i> added a chapter on John Wesley Hackworth<\/i> to his book, and this website has used that as a basis from which to build his story. John’s papers, that Samuel referred to, are now in the Hackworth Family archives housed at NRM in York HERE<\/a>. It’s not possible for me to go through them all at the present time, maybe, at some stage, someone will produce a book using the archives and one that will give a balanced view of John Wesley Hackworth<\/b>. Until then this smaller work will have to suffice. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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