Harry Parsons Lecture on the Development of the Locomotive 1966

Harry Parsons was an engineer for Head Wrightson in Thornaby on Tees and married to

Winifred Prudence Hackworth - a descendent of locomotive pioneer Timothy Hackworth. In 1966 he delivered a lecture to the Keighley Association of Engineers on the history and development of the Locomotive. This is a typed version as pdf of his very informative and illustrated lecture.

The original list of slides used by Harry Parsons for his lecture in the original order and taken from Robert Young's book Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive.

Letter to Winifred Hackworth from the Youngs

 

Letter to Joan Hackworth Weir / Parsons from Darlington 1936

 

Letter from Albert Hackworth of Worth Engineering Toronto to Mother Esther Hackworth, Thornaby on Tees 1917

 

Letter from Albert Hackworth to his mother Esther Hackworth in Thornaby on Tees. Albert was with Worth Engineering in Toronto in 1917.

Shildon's Timothy Hackworth Day 1925

 Shildon's Timothy Hackworth Day 1925

Northern Echo Monday 7th December 1925

Northumbria - The World's Frist public Passenger Steam Railway

 Northumbria  - The World's Frist public Passenger Steam Railway

Timothy Hackworth Museum Poster

 Timothy Hackworth Museum Poster

I found this poster in Joan Hackworth Weirs box of family photographs. The Timothy Hackworth Museum opened in Shildon in 1975.

Fossick and Hackworth and Blair's Marine Engine Works - Stockton (Thomas Hackworth)

 

THOMAS HACKWORTH

Thomas Hackworth (1797 - 1877) was Timothy Hackworth's brother and his role has

been overlooked by history. George Smith explores his story in the book below. Thomas was associated with Fossick and Hackworth and Blairs engineering in Stockton on Tees.

Fossick & Hackworth built locomotives and carriages. In 1853 they went into marine engineering, and this, after some time, took over from the railway work. At the time Thomas retired in 1865 his works manager was George Blair, who was by this time a partner.

Blair's Marine Engine Works - Stockton.

These pages are Cleveland and Teesside Local History Bulletin in relation to Timothy Hackworth's brother Thomas Hackworth who set up a factory in Stockton.

D.M. Tomlin
'A Nineteenth Century Steam Engine Works [set up by Thomas Hackworth and George Fossick] at Stockton- on-Tees, Part 1'
Cleveland & Teesside L.H.S., Bulletin No. 26, 1974
H 5/2

G.B. Butler
'A Nineteenth Century Steam Engine Works [set up by Thomas Hackworth and George Fossick] at Stockton-on-Tees, Part 2'
Cleveland & Teesside L.H.S., Bulletin No. 27, 1974
H 5/2

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thomas-Hackworth-George-Turner-Smith/dp/1781554641

Available from Amazon.

The Story of the Hackworth Brothers - A short precis by Jane Hackworth-Young

 The Story of the Hackworth Brothers - A short precis by Jane Hackworth-Young.

Continued

This Month in Cleveland May 1975 - Getting Up Steam

 This Month in Cleveland May 1975 - Getting Up Steam.

This Month in Cleveland was a monthly what's on paper along with features on the local arts and events that went free through the doors in County Cleveland up until c 1984 when it became a fold up that was obtainable from Cleveland libraries. There are a few copies on this site from 1975 promoting  the 150th anniversary of the S & D Railway.