Thanks to all who replied,
For those unfamiliar with the war service records of individual
soldiers held by the Australian National Archives, they can be very hard to
read, being compiled by various clerks and having each record in a
different hand cramped up on a single piece of paper, and I was not really
surprised that what was written was incorrect. Google's auto-correct
feature actually tried to divert me to Astley & Tyldesley.
This research started as an indexing project to the surviving mining boiler
registrations in Victoria 1927-1947 (1897-1927 apparently no longer exist),
and the realisation that there was a letter code in the registrations
that identified the individual Inspectors of Mines and Machinery. As might
be expected, a number of these men served on the Western Front 1915-1918,
most in the Australian Tunnelling Companies.
No doubt the Victorian mining boiler codes were based on UK practice, so if
anyone on the list knows how these registrations were originally developed
in the UK I would be delighted if they would contact me off-list and we
might find our research mutually beneficial.
Cheers,
PeterE.
On 14 March 2013 22:27, Kate Brett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm sure this is the right answer- had come to the same conclusion earlier
> but the listserver didn't like my webmail! If you think about how formal
> British handwriting looked back then, it's not at all hard to imagine that
> somebody unfamiliar with it, and without knowledge of Manchester, who was
> doing a transcription later could have mistaken those particular letters.
> I have great trouble when I'm in the Records Office looking at stuff from
> that period, and I've had some training in palaeography!
>
> Kate Brett
>
>
>
> From: David Kitching <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: 14/03/2013 09:25
> Subject: Re: "Ashley & Fuldsley Coy Ltd, Manchester"
> Sent by: mining-history <[log in to unmask]>
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>
>
> On 14 Mar 2013 at 8:25, Graham Owens wrote:
>
> > Peter
> >
> > Thinking about your enquiry this morning, I have had a browse through
> various trade directories
> > looking for Ashley & Fuldsley [see
> http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/ ]without success.
> >
> > It then occured to me could "Ashley & Fuldsley" be in actual fact the
> Astley and Tyldesley
> > Collieries Ltd?
> >
> > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astley_and_Tyldesley_Collieries for
> brief description of the
> > company
>
> Well done Peter, I was working slowly towards the same conclusion. I am
> confident that you have worked out the correct name from the interesting
> mis-
> spelling in the official record.
>
> Cheers,
>
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