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Post by stevengray on Oct 24, 2007 13:27:35 GMT 1
Hi,
Anyone know anything about the Old Brewery, Dowlais? It was already called that by the early 1900s, by which time it was being used as accommodation for steelworks labourers, among others.
I suspect it no longer exists. Any info at all appreciated.
Steve.
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Post by Alan on Oct 25, 2007 7:53:07 GMT 1
Hi Steve,
I have found very little information about this brewery and I wasn't aware that it was used for accomodation in the 1900s.
It doesn't exist now nor is there any sign tjat it evar was there.
Alan
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Post by stevengray on Nov 11, 2007 17:18:03 GMT 1
Hi,
Thanks for that, Alan.
Just by Googling Old Brewery and Dowlais, I made contact with a woman who had family members who had lived - and a young relative who had died in infancy - in Old Brewery Street circa 1915.
Which made me realise Old Brewery was a street rather than a converted building, which I initially thought.
When I searched for Old Brewery in the 1901 census, it came up with 20 addresses. I checked the particular house number I was interested in: it didn't have the people I was looking for, but it was interesting in what it revealed about living acommodation/habits at the time... and also about how far people travelled for work.
The family I was looking for were Russian Jews, escaping the pogroms in the Pale of Settlement in the first few years of the 20th century to work in the steelworks in Dowlais. They must have moved into this address sometime between 1901 and 1906, when their first daughter was born there.
The tenants actually resident in the property in 1901 were a family of 5 named Cocker, from the USA. Head of the family was John Cocker, 37, a stone mason. There were also two single boarders.
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