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JOSEPH WEBB...SEWER GAS LAMPS

Astoness said:
hi folks just wondering if there maybe newspaper articles about the brummie joseph webb who invented the sewer gas lamps...also wondering where in brum he lived...thanks folks

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It would seem that would be a pretty good idea using today’s technology to provide fuel for heating homes etc. There are a number or developments in the US where they are using animal waste in rural farm areas as fuel. Just a thought!
 
Richarddye said:
It would seem that would be a pretty good idea using today’s technology to provide fuel for heating homes etc. There are a number or developments in the US where they are using animal waste in rural farm areas as fuel. Just a thought!
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In Reading the bus company claims that it is already using a similar thing , though "virtually"

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The gas produced is still methane, and burning it still produces carbon dioxide. Admittedly methane is a more “powerful” greenhouse gas than CO2, but the modern thinking is to cease burning any of these organic gases and burn pure hydrogen which only produces water when burned. The hydrogen is to be produced by some sort of electrical process using renewable electricity from windfarms or tidal plant resulting in a great reduction of greenhouse gases being pushed into the atmosphere.

Hydrogen as a fuel might be suitable for central heating boilers, or district heating schemes, but has many drawbacks when suggested as a replacement for petrol or diesel fuel.
 
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From one of the earlier links he had a son Joseph (Edward) Leonard and that helped me find him in 1911 in Harlesdon 16 Greenhill Park
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His wife is called Rosetta so:
In 1901 they are at 13 Stracey Road Hendon and I could read his place of birth Stoke Edith in Herefordshire
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crikey jan he left a lot of money...this is just the sort of info i wanted so he was not actually brummie born then...the writing on the 1891 is just awful...cant make out the aston address so i will go back and forth on the census pages to see if that helps..thanks jan

lyn
 
Astoness said:
crikey jan he left a lot of money...this is just the sort of info i wanted so he was not actually brummie born then...the writing on the 1891 is just awful...cant make out the address so i will go back and forth on the census pages to see if that helps..thanks jan

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On page one of the census it looks as if the road goes from Trinity Road to witton Lane so my guess is Witton Road - just going to see if Kelly's helps.
So it seems he did not live in Birmingham for very long.
 
thanks mike and jan..now to find out if 384 and 372 witton road is still there bet they have gone
 
In 1895 and 1896 editions there is no listing of Joseph Webb as builder, but there is:


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1897 He has gone from this address and not listed

It looks like he might have had a go at running a beerhouse
(No address in court section as they would have been living at the pub. No listing in 1884)
In 1888 and 1890 there was

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It was a beerhouse. I looked at the censuses in order to find the name of the beerhouse and the occupant in 1892 is listed as a manager. In the 1901 census the wife of the then occupant is listed as the manager of The Apple Tree. The pub had gone by the 1903 directory, ,

(dates are publication date not survey date)
 
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mike i think this could be a different joseph edmund webb..jans post 12 puts him and wife rosetta living in hendon in 1901 not in birmingham as pub managers

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I did find one listed at a beer house but decided it wasn't the right one. That is why I ended up coming back from earlier records via the son and also the place of birth being Stoke Edith
 
Birmingham Daily Post, April 1892…While JE Webb was up Witton Road, cruel to a horse.

(384 Witton Road seems to have been between Nelson Road and Aston Lane.)

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It does look as if JE Webb was not really a Birmingham man, more a man that lived in Birmingham for a few years. When his fortunes changed he moved on ?

In March 1896 the Birmingham Daily Mail reports the share issue for the Sanitary Supply Corporation Ltd.

"Sewer-Gas Destructor"

One of the Directors will be Joseph E Webb (Messrs Deakin and Co. Managing Director)

The Corporation to be formed to purchase the patents and patent rights of JE Webb in an Improved Sewer Gas Extractor and Germ destructor.
 
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