| 4th January 1842. --- There was this morning another fire at Tring silk mill, and the damage is estimated at £3,000 or £4,000. [Local Occurrences] |
The Silk Mill at Tring
From Around Tring - The Second Selection
Silk Mills in Hertfordshire
The book Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: has a useful account of the silk mills of Hertfordshireand identifies mills at Baldock, Hatfield, Hitchin, Redbourn, Rickmansworth, St Albans, Tring and Watford. An extract from this book, and also a extract relating to child labour, are quoted on the web page Silk Mills at Watford.
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SILK THROWSTERS Evans D. & Co. (J. Akers, manager) Brook street, Tring Shute T.R. Rookery Silk Mills, Watford Woollam J. & Son, Abbey Silk mill, St Albans & at Redbourn Post Office Directory, 1866 |
| 4th January 1842. --- There was this morning another fire at Tring silk mill, and the damage is estimated at £3,000 or £4,000. [Local Occurrences] |
The Silk Mill at Tring
From Around Tring - The Second Selection
212 people in Tring had silk related occupations in the 1881 census.
The Old Silk Mill, St Albans
A Hartmann Card posted in 1904
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Lullingstone Silk Farm
Ayot House Ayot St Lawrence Feeding the Silk Worms [Mid 20th century?] It is now situated at Compton House, Sherborne, Dorset. |
There are web pages for Ayot St Lawrence, St Albans, Tring and Watford.
If you can add to the information given above tell me.
Page updated August 2007